The Invasions of England

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	CÆSAR’S INVASIONS	1
II.	THE CLAUDIAN INVASION AND THE ROMAN CONQUEST	30
III.	THE ROMAN PROVINCE AND THE EARLIER TEUTONIC INVASIONS	58
IV.	THE ENGLISH CONQUEST	85
V.	THE VIKING RAVAGES	114
VI.	ALFRED AND THE SAVING OF WESSEX	132
VII.	THE CONQUEST OF THE DANELAW	152
VIII.	LATER VIKING RAIDS AND THE DANISH CONQUEST	162
IX.	THE INVASIONS OF 1066	177
X.	CONTINENTAL INVASIONS	209
XI.	SCOTTISH INVASIONS	223
XII.	LATER SCOTTISH INVASIONS	249
XIII.	THE SPANISH ARMADA	275
XIV.	THE AFTERMATH OF THE ARMADA	312
XV.	DE RUIJTER AND WILLIAM OF ORANGE	318
XVI.	THE ‘FIFTEEN’ AND THE ‘FORTY-FIVE’	332
XVII.	FRENCH RAIDS, 1690–1797	344
XVIII.	THE NAPOLEONIC DESIGN, 1804	351
	APPENDIX A.—THE SITE OF THE BATTLE OF ACLEA	357
	APPENDIX B.—THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH FLEETS IN 1588	357
	INDEX	363

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