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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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er the imperial title and honors for about four years.to Gaul. 407. Not satisfied to rule Britain alone, he collected what forces he could and crossed over to Gaul (407). Thesoldiers never returned and the Britons were left to their owndevices. Civilization soon began to decay and Celtic bar-barians reconquered much that had been lost. Christianity,however, did not die out, but seems to have won a firmer foot-ing after the Roman government had disappeared. The century that followed the withdrawal of the legionsfrom Britain saw great changes everywhere in Europe. The 1 Cheyney, No. 24. THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASION 9 fifth century was the age of the migrations when Germansfrom the north and Huns from the east broke the The Germanicfrontier along the Rhine and the Danube and migrations,seized parts of the Roman Empire. During this period theRomanized Britons were also sorely afflicted by invadingenemies, — Picts from the Highlands, Scots from Ireland, andTeutonic tribes from the Continent.
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v A r3^^—^77::rr::: Merid. O of Greenw. The English Settlements in Great Britain about 600 11. The Anglo-Saxon Invasion. These Continental tribeswere the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who lived in north-ern Germany along the Weser and the lower Elbe Angles andand in the Jutish peninsula. They were all appar- Saxons-ently addicted to piracy: the Romans had felt the attacks ofthe Saxons on the British shores for several generations; andso bothersome had they become that a special officer, the Countof the Saxon Shore, had been given charge of the coast defensesfrom the Wash to Beachy Head. Now that this official and hisforces were gone, the piratical Saxons doubtless came in greater io THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLAND numbers. About 450 there was great commotion in the German lands: Attila was on the march toward Gaul with a vast army, — according to tradition he had half a million men. His defeat came at Chalons the following year (451). It seems probable that Attilas movements were t

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