Dr. Breeze's The History Of The Britons

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Most people nowadays are familiar with the name of King Arthur, yet know very little about him. And apparently what little we knew about him was probably wrong, at least according to Dr. Andrew Breeze, a British academic. He found that Arthur did, in fact, actually exist, and live in the 5th and early 6th centuries AD. One catch—he wasn’t even a king; rather, he was a general…from Strathclyde; many of his battles were fought in Scotland and Northumberland. Dr. Breeze based his findings off of a Latin chronicle, The History of the Britons, which was written circa ninth century by a Welsh monk. The chronicle “lists the names of nine places where Arthur defeated his enemies” (Gallagher). Even though historians knew where the battles took place,

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