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Identifier: dawnofamericanhi00nida (find matches)
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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provide him with food and pay. Thisgave Alfred a respectable standing army. The fyrd was divided into two parts. One part took thefield, while the other looked after the crops and protectedthe homes and the townships. This enabled Alfred to under-take a longer campaign. He also built forts and encouragedthe townsmen to fortify their towns with ditches and pali-sades ; he built a fleet of ships larger and swifter than thoseof the Danes; and he continued to improve the weaponsof his soldiers. So when war came again in 886, King Alfredwas ready. The Danes Meet Their Match. —Alfred soon took Londonfrom the Danes and made it his capital. He forced themto give him much more territory. With London and theThames valley in his hands, Alfred fortified and closed thiswaterway to the Danes. Since the invaders had alreadybuilt homes in their new lands, they could not fight so well,for they must now defend their own homes before they couldburn and destroy those of the Saxons. So they were beaten,
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EHSRAVED 8y BOBMAr 4 CO.. ,N.1 ALFRED THE GREAT AND THE DANES 129 and Alfred extended his rule over more and more of theirlands. King of England. — So great was the respect and ad-miration for the wonderful Alfred among all the Angles,Saxons, and Jutes that they turned to him as their hope andtheir dehverer from slavery to the Danes. The jealousiesamong the people, who had before formed little kingdoms,now disappeared, and in its place was a growing pride inthe greatness of England, a feeling of oneness and union. The Danes Become English. — The Danish newcomerssettled down quietly, after a time, and were tamed. Theyreadily mixed and intermarried with the EngHsh; theyreceived the EngHsh reUgion and the Anglo-Saxon speech;and after a few generations, the Danes could not be distin-guished from the Anglo-Saxons. One great reason for thislay in their being close kin to the Saxons and having customsand a language very similar to them. The Danes broughtmany good qualities to enrich the

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