A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... strong garrison towns along the frontier of the hilly region , which he would not have done unless he had considered it necessary to have a large number of soldiers ready to check any possible rising . At the northern end of the line ...
... strong garrison towns along the frontier of the hilly region , which he would not have done unless he had considered it necessary to have a large number of soldiers ready to check any possible rising . At the northern end of the line ...
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... strong Iberian strain , or Iberians with a Goidelic admixture . They were probably Iberians , and at all events they were more savage than the Britons had been before they were influenced by Roman civilisation . The Scots , who ...
... strong Iberian strain , or Iberians with a Goidelic admixture . They were probably Iberians , and at all events they were more savage than the Britons had been before they were influenced by Roman civilisation . The Scots , who ...
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... strong enough to hold it against all assailants . Their numbers rapidly increased as shiploads of their fellows landed , and they crossed the strait to win fresh lands from the Britons on the mainland of Kent . In several battles ...
... strong enough to hold it against all assailants . Their numbers rapidly increased as shiploads of their fellows landed , and they crossed the strait to win fresh lands from the Britons on the mainland of Kent . In several battles ...
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... It is probable that the cause of the slow advance of the northern Angles lay in the existence of a strong 597 THE KYMRY 37 Celtic state in front . Welsh 36 547-597 THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS The Advance of the Angles The Kymry.
... It is probable that the cause of the slow advance of the northern Angles lay in the existence of a strong 597 THE KYMRY 37 Celtic state in front . Welsh 36 547-597 THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS The Advance of the Angles The Kymry.
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... strong . Wessex was too distracted by conflicts amongst members of the kingly family , and Mercia was as yet too small to be of much account . North- humberland was therefore the first of the three to rise to the foremost place . Till ...
... strong . Wessex was too distracted by conflicts amongst members of the kingly family , and Mercia was as yet too small to be of much account . North- humberland was therefore the first of the three to rise to the foremost place . Till ...
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