The Battle of Wippedesfleot took place in or around 465 CE between the Anglo-Saxons (or Jutes), said to have been led by Hengest, and the Britons.
[citation needed] Wippedesfleot is thought to be Ebbsfleet in Kent, near Ramsgate.
Its location made the author of the Historia Brittonum[2] think that all Saxons had now been driven out of Britain.
[citation needed] Ramsgate is the main place upon the former Island of Thanet, "which was given to the Saxons by Vortigern".
The only contemporary Brittonic source, the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae of Gildas, does not mention the battle specifically, instead reporting that "sometimes our countrymen, sometimes the enemy, won the field" until the Battle of Badon.