History of England (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of England For the earliest accounts of our country we are indebted to the Romans, that extraordinary people of antiquity, whose love of conquest was so great, that they could not rest until they had brought almost the whole of the then known world under their dominion. After having conquered Gaul, as France was then called, they must needs have Britain too so in the year 55 before our present era, Julius Caesar, their general, fitted out a żeet, with which he crossed the Channel, and landed on the coast of Kent. But the ancient Britons, though rude and barbarous, loved their independence, and fought bravely for it; and the Romans did not then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.