History of Great Britain and IrelandOliver and Boyd, 1868 - 517 trang |
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... defeats , could no longer make head against the legions . He was therefore compelled to sue for peace , which was willingly granted on condition of his paying tribute . Cæsar had no sooner received the submission of Cassivellaunus than ...
... defeats , could no longer make head against the legions . He was therefore compelled to sue for peace , which was willingly granted on condition of his paying tribute . Cæsar had no sooner received the submission of Cassivellaunus than ...
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... defeated after a hard contest , while his wife and daughter were made prisoners ; his brothers surrendered at discretion ; and not long after , he himself was betrayed by his stepmother , the queen of the Brigantes , with whom he had ...
... defeated after a hard contest , while his wife and daughter were made prisoners ; his brothers surrendered at discretion ; and not long after , he himself was betrayed by his stepmother , the queen of the Brigantes , with whom he had ...
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... defeated the freebooters , enriching himself and his mariners with the plunder . Anticipating the intentions of the emperors to put him to death , he sailed with his fleet to Britain , where he received the imperial diadem from the ...
... defeated the freebooters , enriching himself and his mariners with the plunder . Anticipating the intentions of the emperors to put him to death , he sailed with his fleet to Britain , where he received the imperial diadem from the ...
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... his forces . Bernulf was defeated in 823 on the banks of the Willy , and killed in a second battle in 825. Egbert attached Mercia and all its 800 . dependencies to his own kingdom , and not long afterwards 22 ENGLAND FROM THE SAXON ...
... his forces . Bernulf was defeated in 823 on the banks of the Willy , and killed in a second battle in 825. Egbert attached Mercia and all its 800 . dependencies to his own kingdom , and not long afterwards 22 ENGLAND FROM THE SAXON ...
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... defeated , so serious was the loss of the enemy , and such their dread of Alfred's military prowess , that they readily concluded a treaty , and left him in undisturbed possession of his kingdom of Wessex during a period of three years ...
... defeated , so serious was the loss of the enemy , and such their dread of Alfred's military prowess , that they readily concluded a treaty , and left him in undisturbed possession of his kingdom of Wessex during a period of three years ...
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