A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... soon found , how- ever , that the season was too advanced to enable him to accom- plish anything . A storm having damaged his shipping and driven off the transports on which was embarked his cavalry , he returned to Gaul . 13. Cæsar's ...
... soon found , how- ever , that the season was too advanced to enable him to accom- plish anything . A storm having damaged his shipping and driven off the transports on which was embarked his cavalry , he returned to Gaul . 13. Cæsar's ...
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... soon involved in fresh troubles . Nothing is more difficult for a civilised power than to guard a frontier against barbarous tribes . Such tribes are accustomed to plunder one another , and they are quick to perceive that the order and ...
... soon involved in fresh troubles . Nothing is more difficult for a civilised power than to guard a frontier against barbarous tribes . Such tribes are accustomed to plunder one another , and they are quick to perceive that the order and ...
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... soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea , the widow of Prasutagus ...
... soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea , the widow of Prasutagus ...
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... soon after his return to Eboracum . 25. The Roman Province of Britain . - Very little is known of the history of the Roman province of Britain , except that it made considerable progress in civilisation . The Romans were great road ...
... soon after his return to Eboracum . 25. The Roman Province of Britain . - Very little is known of the history of the Roman province of Britain , except that it made considerable progress in civilisation . The Romans were great road ...
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... their chief that they were called Gesiths , a name gradually abandoned for that of Thegns , or servants , when they - as was soon the case- 449 ? -520 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS 31 ceased to 30 449 ? -520 THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS.
... their chief that they were called Gesiths , a name gradually abandoned for that of Thegns , or servants , when they - as was soon the case- 449 ? -520 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS 31 ceased to 30 449 ? -520 THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS.
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