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Ellendun, the climatic clash between the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. The battle of Ellendune has been claimed to have been one of the most important and decisive battles in English history. In the 8th and 9th centuries, the Kingdom of Mercia was the most powerful and influential of the Anglo-Saxon nations. It had started to dominate the English Kingdoms of...