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...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

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...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ........................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. 858—958........................................................ ...ople used to come over in boats across 9 Charlotte M. Yonge the North Sea and German Ocean. These people had their home in the country that... ...at last, they got all the country, and drove the Britons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, an... ...ce, 32 Young Folk’s History of England while Richard remained, though the climate really did hurt his health, and he often had fevers there. When he ... ...was to have been archbishop of Canterbury. It was in this reign, too, that America was discovered— though not by the English, but by Christopher Colum... ...urtly gentleman besides. He took out the first English set- tlers to North America, and named their new home Vir- ginia—after the virgin queen—and he ...