A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... Scots and Picts , probably imposed upon them by their neighbours , out of revenge for the injuries which they suffered by their frequent depredations . This conjecture is supported by the significations of these names in the vulgar ...
... Scots and Picts , probably imposed upon them by their neighbours , out of revenge for the injuries which they suffered by their frequent depredations . This conjecture is supported by the significations of these names in the vulgar ...
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... Scots and Picts , and to settle peace with them on a solid basis ; which having accomplished , he recruited his army with a great number of British youth , and departed to the continent . In the year 304 , a great part of the Roman ...
... Scots and Picts , and to settle peace with them on a solid basis ; which having accomplished , he recruited his army with a great number of British youth , and departed to the continent . In the year 304 , a great part of the Roman ...
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... Scots and Picts . But at length , the Roman empire was re- duced to such extremities , that , in 420 , it recalled the few of its troops that remained in Britain , and never sent any more to that country , where the Romans had been ...
... Scots and Picts . But at length , the Roman empire was re- duced to such extremities , that , in 420 , it recalled the few of its troops that remained in Britain , and never sent any more to that country , where the Romans had been ...
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... Scots and Picts , finding no op- position to their inroads into Britain , renewed them daily , carrying devastation and ruin along with them . In the mean time the disciples of Pelagius , who was himself a native of Britain , having ...
... Scots and Picts , finding no op- position to their inroads into Britain , renewed them daily , carrying devastation and ruin along with them . In the mean time the disciples of Pelagius , who was himself a native of Britain , having ...
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... Scots , attacked them near Stamford , and gained a complete victory . The Saxon generals perceiving , from their easy success in that battle , with what facility they might subdue the Britons themselves , who had not been able to resist ...
... Scots , attacked them near Stamford , and gained a complete victory . The Saxon generals perceiving , from their easy success in that battle , with what facility they might subdue the Britons themselves , who had not been able to resist ...
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