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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hiswall were frequent forts and castles. There were also watch-towers near enough to one another to signal by lightingfires at night, and by other signs by day. Outside the wall,on the barbarian side, was a wide ditch, and beyond thiswas a stretch of waste land which the Germans might nevercross unless they were accompanied by the Roman soldiers. Seizing Upon Britain.—-Later emperors undertook tosubdue the wild Britains who then occupied the island ofEngland. All the southern portion of the island was con-quered, and made into a Roman province. But so tame-less were the wild tribes of what is now Scotland, that eventhe brave Romans gave up the task of subduing them.It was easier, they thought, to build a huge wall across theisland from sea to sea to protect the province than to tryto overcome these savages of Scotland. Another Mighty Wall.—The first wall across Englandwas of earth, but later a solid stone wall eighty miles longwas constructed. It was from six to ten feet thick and
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