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... attacking Britain , with no greater successes than the half - naked Scoti from Ireland had obtained . They plundered where they arrived unexpectedly . They were defeated when they encountered a military or naval resistance . Hengist and ...
... attacking Britain , with no greater successes than the half - naked Scoti from Ireland had obtained . They plundered where they arrived unexpectedly . They were defeated when they encountered a military or naval resistance . Hengist and ...
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... attacked by the Danes ; Ethelred , instead of rousing his people to resistance , meanly com- pounded with the enemy , and bribed them to retire from his kingdom , by a tribute called the Danegeld tax ( 991 ) . This shameful expedient ...
... attacked by the Danes ; Ethelred , instead of rousing his people to resistance , meanly com- pounded with the enemy , and bribed them to retire from his kingdom , by a tribute called the Danegeld tax ( 991 ) . This shameful expedient ...
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... attacking them with their cavalry as they descended into the plain ; thus throwing them into disorder , and driving them back with loss to the hill . A large body of the English stood firm around their prince , determined to dispute the ...
... attacking them with their cavalry as they descended into the plain ; thus throwing them into disorder , and driving them back with loss to the hill . A large body of the English stood firm around their prince , determined to dispute the ...
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... attacked these unhappy people , and they were pursued under circumstances of great barbarity ( 1208-1229 ) . Innocent excommunicated Of the modern Albigenses of France , the Rev. G. S. Faber supposes ( Inquiry , book ii . chap . i ...
... attacked these unhappy people , and they were pursued under circumstances of great barbarity ( 1208-1229 ) . Innocent excommunicated Of the modern Albigenses of France , the Rev. G. S. Faber supposes ( Inquiry , book ii . chap . i ...
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... attacked and took Constantinople ( 1203 ) , and gave the city up to pillage . Tumults occurred , and the very next year it was again captured , Baldwin made emperor , the Greek empire divided , and Constantinople for the second time ...
... attacked and took Constantinople ( 1203 ) , and gave the city up to pillage . Tumults occurred , and the very next year it was again captured , Baldwin made emperor , the Greek empire divided , and Constantinople for the second time ...
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