A history of England . Victoria (2) Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston 483 XLVII. Victoria (3) The Growth of Imperial Patriotism 497 XLVHI. Edward VII.; George V $H Index 521 MAPS PAGE Roman Britain 2 Saxon England . 18 England from 1066-1485 48 The Angevin Empire 70 Scotland 109 France from 1204-1453 129 France from 1453-1789 202 Ireland from 1171-1798 251 England and Wales during the Civil Wars 282 The Netherlands 342 Spain and Portugai 346 India 382 North America, 1760-1783 394 The Crimean War ..... . „ ....... 485 GENEALOGIES PAGE The West Saxon Kings 22 The Danish Kings - - 22 The
A history of England . Victoria (2) Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston 483 XLVII. Victoria (3) The Growth of Imperial Patriotism 497 XLVHI. Edward VII.; George V $H Index 521 MAPS PAGE Roman Britain 2 Saxon England . 18 England from 1066-1485 48 The Angevin Empire 70 Scotland 109 France from 1204-1453 129 France from 1453-1789 202 Ireland from 1171-1798 251 England and Wales during the Civil Wars 282 The Netherlands 342 Spain and Portugai 346 India 382 North America, 1760-1783 394 The Crimean War ..... . „ ....... 485 GENEALOGIES PAGE The West Saxon Kings 22 The Danish Kings - - 22 The Descendants of Ethelred II 39 The Norman and Angevin Kings 47 The Later Plantagenets 116 The Claim of Edward III. to the French Throne . 127 York and Lancaster . 174, 175 The Yorkist Rivals of Henry VII 192 The Tudor Dynasty ....... 220 The Stuart Dynasty 258 The House of Suffolk 260 The Spanish Succession Question 337 The Hanoverian Dynasty 354 The Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Dynasty ....... 468 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Walker & Cockerell so. CHAPTER I. THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN { $$ 410). i. The Invasion of Julius Caesar ( 55).—It was notuntil the first century of the Christian era that Britain wasbrought definitely into contact with the beneficent and civilisinginfluence of Rome, and that it became possible for the reignof law, which everywhere followed the Imperial standards, toextend its sway over the restless and disorganised tribes whichoccupied our island. Before, however, Britain definitely becamea Roman colony, Rome made more than one effort to gain afooting. It was Romes greatest general and statesman, JuliusCaesar, who first led the Roman legions across the Channel,and thus strikingly brought before the minds of his compatriotsthe possibility of opening to Latin civilisation a country solittle known that it appeared to them in the light of a newworld. The Celts, who at the time of Caesars invasion occupiedBritain, were a portion of one of the great waves of Aryan
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