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	Battle of Mons Badonicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A number of places for the battle have been proposed; these are all in present-day England.
		The battle may have been on the frontier between the territories of the native British inhabitants and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, perhaps near the Wansdyke.
		Or this battle may be a duplicate of the first battle, heard of by a different route with details changed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Mons_Badonicus (1382 words)

	Battle of Mons Badonicus
		However uncertain the place, date or participants of this battle may be, it clearly halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for a number of years.
		While the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is silent about this battle, it clearly documents a gap of almost seventy years between two major Anglo-Saxon leaders, or Bretwaldas, in the fifth and sixth centuries.
		Procopius records a story, told to him by a member of a diplomatic delegation from the Franks, which included a group of Angles, which included the fact that a number of Anglo-Saxons and British found their island so crowded that they migrated into northern Gaul to find lands to live on.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mons_Badonicus.html (517 words)

	Ceawlin of Wessex
		This has been cited as supporting Gildas' claim that for over 40 years after the battle of Mons Badonicus the British lived in peace and were secure from major predations from the Anglo Saxon invaders.
		Since at least as early as Charles Plummer'[?] edition of the Chronicle, it has been observed that this is the first recorded battle between the Anglo Saxon tribes.
		Much has been made that with this battle the Cornish Celts were separated from the Welsh; in actual fact, the Celtic peoples living in those parts of Britain could still travel by land with little significant barrier between them for many more years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ce/Ceawlin_of_Wessex.html (1506 words)

	Battle of Mount Badon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A decisive battle between the Britons and Saxons; it's location and the warlords involved is something still debated.
		The Historia Brittonum says that Arthur lead the Britons: "In this engagement, nine hundred and forty fell by his hand alone, no one but the Lord affording him assistance." This is listed as his twelfth battle against the Saxons, and the most fearsome.
		Modern scholars believe that it was in fact Ambrosius Aurelianus who fought in the battle, not Arthur, and that the battle was against Aelle of Sussex.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/badon.html (157 words)

	Anglo-Saxons Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although how these people came to control Britain is unclear, it is clear that their migration was part of the widespread movement of peoples on the mainland of Europe at this time.
		During the 6th Century there was organised British resistance to the invaders which succeeded in slowing the invasion, if not halting it for some time, which culminated in the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
		A figure today known as "King Arthur" may have been the leader and his fabled "Knights of the Round Table" may preserve the names of the leaders who fought with him at this battle, as well as in other parts on the island.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/a/an/anglo_saxons.html (645 words)

	A WAB Scenario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is the intention of English Computer Wargames, to temporarily abandon their infernal machines, shake off the dust from their trusty dice and stage a wargame of the Battle of Mons Badonicus, using Warhammer, Ancient Battles (WAB).
		Mons Badonicus, or Mount Badon must be the most written about battle of Dark Age Britain, but we still don’t know for sure where, or even when, it was.
		The most popular sites for Mons Badonicus are all in the South West, and most are centred on a hill fort.
	www.wargames.co.uk /RandomS/Library/MonsBadonicus.htm (467 words)

	Barony Of Vatavia, The Legend of Arthur
		In it he mentions that resistance to the Saxons was organized by Abrosius Aurelianus, a Roman descendent, which ended victoriously with the battle of Mons Badonicus, or Badon Hill.
		The only other mentions of Arthur occur in the “Annales Cambriae,” which puts the battle of Badon in 518 and notes that in the battle of Camlann in 539, Arthur and Medraut died.
		The battle of Badon is important in that it stopped the Saxon advance.
	www.baronyofvatavia.org /articles/hisfig/arthur061981as16.php (1238 words)

	History - King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The most voluble source we have for the battles of the Dux is the Historia Brittonum, written, or, more probably, compiled, by a Welsh monk calling himself Nennius in the mid-ninth century.
		Gildas mentions Mons Badonicus, though fails to attribute the victory to Arthur.
		The battle on the "shores of the River Tribruit" is also mentioned elsewhere.
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	Learn more about 496 in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts led by Arthur defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex (the battle may have taken place in AD The ruling Tuoba family in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty change their family name to Yuan.
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /4/49/496.html (207 words)

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	King Arthur
		The first battle in which he was engaged, was at the mouth of the river Gleni.
		The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights on his shoulders and the Britons were the victors.
		The battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell: and there was plague in Britain and Ireland.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/arthur.html (3672 words)

	Battles: The Anglo-Saxon Wars :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		From 460s till 473 AD the Saxons and their allies were being constantly beaten by Brittonic forces and from 473 ADtill the battle of Mons Badonicus (Mount Badon) the Saxons and their allies where winning the war.
		What happened next is under deep debate since due to the unreliability of sources from the period, however what is known is that there was a pivotal battle at Mons Badonicus (Mount Badon) that kept the Saxons at bay for fifty years.
		The effect of the battle was enormous, some Saxons even considered leaving Britain for Gaul (France).
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of Mons Badonicus
		This battle may have been on the frontier between the territories of the native British inhabitants and the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
		It may have been the fate of a deep Anglo-Saxon invasion of British territory to try to separate the Welsh from the Britons of the southwest.
		The 2004 film King Arthur sets the battle south of Hadrian's Wall.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Battle_of_Badon_Hill (1382 words)

	English Military Victories
		Britain loses the upper hand in the opening battle for the American war of indep endence.
		In defense of the French Countries, French, British, Polish, Belgium and Dutch armies are defeated by the Axis power of Germnay and Italy.
		Britian and her allies are victorious in the D-Day beach landings against the unsuspecting Germans.
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	King Arthur Legend, England
		The legendary cycle of King Arthur (or Artus) and his Knights of the Round Table has its origins in the far southwest of the British Isles, in what are now the counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
		Here, historians are agreed, at the end of the fifth/early part of the sixth century, lived a Breton military leader who confronted the Anglo Saxon invaders from the east, defeating them in battle at Mons Badonicus in 516.
		At this point however history ends and legend begins, a legend which has immortalized in the figure of Arthur the archetype of a Christian king and the embodiment of all the knightly virtues.
	www.planetware.com /tintagel/king-arthur-legend-eng-crn-cornart.htm (968 words)

	Other: The Anglo-Saxon Army :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		The wedge was a triangular formation with the strongest warriors at the tip and lesser ones on the flanks, using this tactic the Anglo-Saxons could break the enemy lines by driving the wedge through a weak spot.
		Before joining the battle the Anglo-Saxons would lift their weapons and shout “Ute Ute Ute” over and over again to scare the enemy, and many times it worked.
		At AMons Badonicus Ambrosius Aurelianus (possibly the real Arthur) used cavalry, which was the Anglo-Saxon army’s greatest weakness to break them and force a peace for the next fifty years.
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	Timelines - Roman Invasion and Occupation of Britain
		The Romans marched inland and met a large force of Britons led by Cassivellaunus north of the River Thames.
		After a hard battle the Romans defeated the Britons and some tribal leaders surrendered to the Romans.
		Ambrosius Aurelianus was a British warlord who commanded the victorious Britons at the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
	www.historyonthenet.com /Chronology/timelineroman.htm (864 words)

	Sub-Roman Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Archaeological explorations have indicated that Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established in Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and Essex in the latter part of the 5th century, as well as East Anglia, Lindsey (now Lincolnshire), Deira (now East Yorkshire) and the Isle of Wight.
		Organised British resistance, first led by Ambrosius Aurelianus (according to Gildas), and then possibly by King Arthur, culminated in the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
		The contest for Britain was still in the balance as late as 590, with King Urien of Rheged besieging Lindisfarne, the stronghold of Bernicia, and other Celts victorious in 584 at the Battle of Fethanleag (Stoke Lyne, 5km north of Bicester in Oxfordshire).
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	Arthurian, King Arthur www.netterness.com
		Other writers suggest that King Arthur should be identified as one Lucius Artorius Castus, a Roman dux of the 2nd century, whose military exploits in Britain may have been remembered for centuries afterwards.
		In this work, Arthur is referred to as a "leader of battles" rather than as a king.
		According to the Annales Cambriae, Arthur was killed at the Battle of Camlann in 537 AD.
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	Amazon.com: "Mons Badonicus": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		but in the end the British won a great victory at Mons Badonicus, and this victory inaugurated a period of peace which was still unbroken when Gildas was writing.
		The phrase in which Gildas attempts to give the date of this battle is obscure, but places it a little...
		This reverse migration is consistent with Gildas's reference to a great victory won by the Britons at Mons Badonicus, a battle which was fought, wrote Gildas, in the year of his birth.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Mons-Badonicus (511 words)

	Wikinfo \| King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Another early reference to Arthur is in the Historia Brittonum, attributed to the Welsh monk Nennius, who is said to have written this compilation of early Welsh history around the year AD In this work Arthur is referred to as a 'leader of battles' rather than as a king.
		Arthur was a casualty in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
		The Prose Lancelot and the later prose cyclic romances state that Mordred was also a Knight of the Round Table and the child of an incestuous union between Arthur and his sister.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=King_Arthur (1651 words)

	The Anglo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Archeological explorations have indicated that Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established in Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and Essex in the later part of the 5th century, as well as East Anglia, Lindsey (now Lincolnshire), Deira (now East Yorkshire) and the Isle of Wight.
		Organized British resistance, first led by Ambrosius Aurelianus (according to Gildas), and then by King Arthur culminated in the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
		The fate of Britain was still in the balance as late as 590, with King Urien of Rheged besieging Lindisfarne, the stronghold of Bernicia, and other Celts victorious in 584 at the Battle of Fethanleag (Stoke Lyne, 5km N of Banbury in Oxfordshire).
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/anglo-saxons.htm (1438 words)

	History of Britain pre 1066 A.D.
		This gave rise to the legend of King Arthur.
		1066 A.D. The Saxons under their king, Harold, fought against the Vikings at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
		Having defeated them, Harold and his army marched south to face William of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings.
	britcult0.tripod.com /history/early.htm (532 words)

	An Outline of English Fiction - King Arthur
		Another school of thought believes that Arthur is at best a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god Lir into King Lear) or a possibly fictive person like Beowulf.
		In a surviving early Welsh poem, the Gododdin, (c.
		Arthur also appears in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, a narrative that is usually associated with the Mabinogion.
	www.ped.muni.cz /weng/outline_of_english_fiction/terms/arthur.html (759 words)

	King Arthur - About Wales
		Still another theory suggests Lucius Artorius Castus, a historical Roman of the 2nd century whose exploits in Britain may have been remembered for years afterward.
		Another early reference to Arthur is in the Historia Britonum, attributed to the Welsh monk Nennius, who is said to have written this compilation of early Welsh history around the year AD 830.
		Two separate sources within this compilation list twelve battles that he fought, culminating in the battle of Mons Badonicus, which was fought in, or within a few years after, 491.
	www.welshpedia.co.uk /hist/arthur.shtml (1965 words)

	Roman Britain - Quick Quiz
		After the Romans left England was invaded by the French
		The Britons won the Battle of Mons Badonicus
		See a Timeline of the key events of the Roman invasion and occupation
	www.historyonthenet.com /Chronology/rombritquickquiz.htm (61 words)

	An Outline of English Fiction - Battle of Mount Badon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An Outline of English Fiction - Battle of Mount Badon
		In the Battle of Mount Badon (Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano-British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		While it is a major political/military event of the 5th and 6th centuries in Britain, there is no certainty about its date, place, or who commanded the opposing forces.
	www.ped.muni.cz /weng/outline_of_english_fiction/terms/mount_badon.html (106 words)

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