The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . sconsecrated to religious uses even before the days of Christianity. In the days of King Cnut (or Canute) England began to enterinto the affairs of the outside world. Cnut, like most great conquer-ors, was an able administrator. Once safely on the throne, he beganto govern. Sending back to Denmark his famous armj% he kept abody of chosen houseearls—Dan
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . sconsecrated to religious uses even before the days of Christianity. In the days of King Cnut (or Canute) England began to enterinto the affairs of the outside world. Cnut, like most great conquer-ors, was an able administrator. Once safely on the throne, he beganto govern. Sending back to Denmark his famous armj% he kept abody of chosen houseearls—Danes, English, and others, noted forbravery—around his throne, the fii-st standing army known in Eng-land. Up to this time the title had been King of the English, never THE BRITISH EMPIRE 319 King of England. Cnut used the special stjde of King of all Eng-land {Rex fotiiis Anglice). In his reign, too, the relations betweenEngland and Normandy began to be of great importance, and theseeds were sown that ripened into the Norman Conquest. The enor-mous empire that obeyed Cnuts scepter, consisting of scatteredislands and peninsulas, was too large and disconnected to hold to-gether. The election of Edward tlie Confessor to the throne was in. A Detachment of English Infantry some measure the beginning of tlie Norman Conquest. Edward hadbeen educated in Normandy, spoke the Norman tongue; and moreNorman than English, he filled every post at court with Norman fa-vorites, who soon plotted against Englishmen; and a Norman monk,Robert of Jumieges, was made Archbishop of Canterbury. The actual Norman Conquest came in 1066. The spirit of Eng-lishmen was aroused by the return of Godwine and his sons, and thenation rose to receive them. The army that the king called togetherrefused to fight against the deliverers, the citizens of London decreed
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