Yorkshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year ... and Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Softcover

Baines, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1333595050 ISBN 13: 9781333595050

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Yorkshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870; With an Account of Its Manufactures, Commerce, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Words and Places, Rev. Isaac Taylor, p. 62.the western coasts of England, the Celtic tribes were never com pletely subdued, either by the Saxons or by the Angles, though they were ultimately overcome by the more formidable arms and the more skilful military system of the Normans, who first con quered the Saxons and Angles, andthen with their assistance completed the conquest of the Celts in the more mountainous districts. The mountains or hills of the Northumbrian kingdom thus enabled the Celtic tribes, in the north of England, to make a very long, and for many ages a successful defence, of the dis tricts of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and of the hilly country which extends from the borders of Scotland to the south of Yorkshire. So long and obstinate was the resistance, that some of these districts, including the kingdom of Cumberland, were not conquered by the Saxon and Anglian kings until more than four hundred years after the time when the Saxons formed their first settlements on the coasts of Norfolk, Kent, and Sussex, or less than three hundred years after Ida and his immediate successors landed on the eastern shores of the kingdom of Northumberland.

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The incursrons of the Saxons and the Angles into the British Islands differed greatly, as relates to the rapidity of the conquest and settlement of the country, from the irruptions of the other Germanic tribes into Gaul, Italy, and Spain, though the most important of them took place in the same age, and were accel erated, if not produced, by the same cause; namely, the irruption of immense tribes of Huns into Germany, and as far westward as the river Marne - between the years 440 and 452 - under the com mand of the terrible Attila, noted even among barbarian conquerors as the Scourge of God. On the Continent the incursions of the Germanic tribes were made by land, and were effected by vast armies of fighting men, accompanied by their wives and children. These hordes, after a few victorious battles, either extirpated or reduced to subjection the original inhabitants, and in a few years took posses sion of, settled in, and peopled the conquered countries. This was the case with the Franks in Gaul, the Goths in Spain, the Lombards in Italy, and even the Vandals in North Africa. In those countries the invading armies, amounting in some cases to many hundred thousands of fighting,men, with their.wives and children, in a few years established the dominion of the new and victorious races over whole nations and vast ranges of country:'

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333595050
• ISBN 13: 9781333595050
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388