Of the Britons before the arrival of the Romans-Henry IIIT. Davies, in Russel-street, 1771 |
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... battle , which , with fhort scythes fastened to the ends of the axletrees , inflicted terrible wounds , fpreading terror and devastation wherefoever they drove . Nor while the chariots were thus destroying , were the warriors who ...
... battle , which , with fhort scythes fastened to the ends of the axletrees , inflicted terrible wounds , fpreading terror and devastation wherefoever they drove . Nor while the chariots were thus destroying , were the warriors who ...
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... battle upon the fhore , to oppose his landing . The women , dreffed like furies , with difhevelled hair and torches in their hands , poured forth the most terrible execra- tions . Such a fight at firft confounded the Romans , and fixed ...
... battle upon the fhore , to oppose his landing . The women , dreffed like furies , with difhevelled hair and torches in their hands , poured forth the most terrible execra- tions . Such a fight at firft confounded the Romans , and fixed ...
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... battle was obftinate and bloody . Boadicea herself appeared in a chariot with her two daughters , and harrangued her army with mafculine intrepidity ; but the irregular and undifciplined bravery of her troops was unable to refift the ...
... battle was obftinate and bloody . Boadicea herself appeared in a chariot with her two daughters , and harrangued her army with mafculine intrepidity ; but the irregular and undifciplined bravery of her troops was unable to refift the ...
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... battles fought between these enraged nations , their hatred to each other being still more enflamed by the difference of their reli- D 4 gion , gion , the Britons being all Christians , and the HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 39.
... battles fought between these enraged nations , their hatred to each other being still more enflamed by the difference of their reli- D 4 gion , gion , the Britons being all Christians , and the HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 39.
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... battles , where rather obftinate va- lour than prudent conduct procured the vic- tory ; and , indeed , the accounts ... battle fought at Eglesford , Horfa , the Saxon general , was flain . But a fingle victory , or even a repetition of ...
... battles , where rather obftinate va- lour than prudent conduct procured the vic- tory ; and , indeed , the accounts ... battle fought at Eglesford , Horfa , the Saxon general , was flain . But a fingle victory , or even a repetition of ...
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