Arthur is not mentioned in Gildas' 6th-century book "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae". Gildas does mention a British victory against the Saxons at the "Badonic mount" ("mons Badonicus"), which occurred in the year of Gildas' birth and ushered in a generation of peace between the two warring peoples. This engagement is now referred to as the Battle of Badon. Gildas describes the battle as taking place "in our times" and being one of the "latest, if not the greatest" slaughter of the Saxons, and that a new generation born after Badon had come of age in Britain. Later Cambro-Latin sources give the Old Welsh form of the battle's location as Badon, such as in the "Annales Cambriae", and this has been adopted by most modern scholars.