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Read MoreCHAPTER I – ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS
Charles Dickens Read All Book IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand…
Read MoreCHAPTER II – ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS
Charles Dickens Read All Book THE Romans had scarcely gone away from Britain, when the Britons began to wish they…
Read MoreCHAPTER III – ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED
Charles Dickens Read All Book ALFRED THE GREAT was a young man, three-and-twenty years of age, when he became king.…
Read MoreCHAPTER IV – ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS
Charles Dickens Read All Book ATHELSTAN, the son of Edward the Elder, succeeded that king. He reigned only fifteen years;…
Read MoreCHAPTER V – ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE
Charles Dickens Read All Book CANUTE reigned eighteen years. He was a merciless King at first. After he had clasped…
Read MoreCHAPTER VI – ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Charles Dickens Read All Book CANUTE left three sons, by name SWEYN, HAROLD, and HARDICANUTE; but his Queen, Emma, once…
Read MoreCHAPTER VII – ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS
Charles Dickens Read All Book HAROLD was crowned King of England on the very day of the maudlin Confessor`s funeral.…
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