The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... . ARNOLD , Lectures on Modern History . VOLUME I. FROM THE INVASION OF CÆSAR TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD II . LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , 11 , BOUVERIE STREET . 1856 . LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , PRINTERS , WHITEFRIARS .
... . ARNOLD , Lectures on Modern History . VOLUME I. FROM THE INVASION OF CÆSAR TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD II . LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , 11 , BOUVERIE STREET . 1856 . LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , PRINTERS , WHITEFRIARS .
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... Cæsar's Invasion Second Invasion Death of Severus 31 ឥ ឥ ឥ ឥ ឥ 24 25 26 27 28 29 4 ILLUSTRATIONS . Roman Victory . 16 7 Caligula . 17 The Romans quit Britain Condition of the Country after the Roman Claudius 17 8 Roman Elephants ...
... Cæsar's Invasion Second Invasion Death of Severus 31 ឥ ឥ ឥ ឥ ឥ 24 25 26 27 28 29 4 ILLUSTRATIONS . Roman Victory . 16 7 Caligula . 17 The Romans quit Britain Condition of the Country after the Roman Claudius 17 8 Roman Elephants ...
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... Cæsar , when the people of Britain waded through their marshes , to the age of Queen Victoria when the same land is rich with the accumulated labour of ages ; -from the period when a horseman carried a royal missive with " haste , poste ...
... Cæsar , when the people of Britain waded through their marshes , to the age of Queen Victoria when the same land is rich with the accumulated labour of ages ; -from the period when a horseman carried a royal missive with " haste , poste ...
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... Cæsar , our first authentic historian , would have dealt with that small peninsula as a portion of Gaul . The Roman , the Saxon , the Dane , the Norman , would not have struggled for the mastery of THE ISLAND during ten centuries . For ...
... Cæsar , our first authentic historian , would have dealt with that small peninsula as a portion of Gaul . The Roman , the Saxon , the Dane , the Norman , would not have struggled for the mastery of THE ISLAND during ten centuries . For ...
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... Cæsar described the Veneti to possess , with flat bottoms , and high prows , and sails made of hides , -boats which ... Cæsar , after he had made a conquest of their allies . Julius Cæsar . Of the masterly description which the conqueror ...
... Cæsar described the Veneti to possess , with flat bottoms , and high prows , and sails made of hides , -boats which ... Cæsar , after he had made a conquest of their allies . Julius Cæsar . Of the masterly description which the conqueror ...
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