The Historians' History of the World: Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792Henry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 - World History |
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... army . He cut down forests , made roads through marshes and over mountains , and en- deavoured to secure the districts which he overran . But the Caledonians , while they shunned a general action , carried on , with the best policy of a ...
... army . He cut down forests , made roads through marshes and over mountains , and en- deavoured to secure the districts which he overran . But the Caledonians , while they shunned a general action , carried on , with the best policy of a ...
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... army against Scotland ; but he soon returned without effecting anything . It was immediately after this expedition that the fortress bearing the name of the Castellum Novum , on the Tyne , which gave origin to the town of Newcastle ...
... army against Scotland ; but he soon returned without effecting anything . It was immediately after this expedition that the fortress bearing the name of the Castellum Novum , on the Tyne , which gave origin to the town of Newcastle ...
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... army had been routed . " The next year a treaty of peace was concluded between the two kings at Durham , by which David obtained the earldom of Northumberland , the ostensible object of the war , for his son , who enjoyed it till his ...
... army had been routed . " The next year a treaty of peace was concluded between the two kings at Durham , by which David obtained the earldom of Northumberland , the ostensible object of the war , for his son , who enjoyed it till his ...
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... army plundered the country . Meantime a band of those northern barons of England , whose ancestors had gained the Battle of the Standard , had arrived at Newcastle , and sallied out to scour the country . They made about four hundred ...
... army plundered the country . Meantime a band of those northern barons of England , whose ancestors had gained the Battle of the Standard , had arrived at Newcastle , and sallied out to scour the country . They made about four hundred ...
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... army was occupied with an ineffectual investment of Norham , he received the homage of the barons of Northumberland at Felton , where Eustace de Vesci , by the presentation of a white wand , formally made over the three northern ...
... army was occupied with an ineffectual investment of Norham , he received the homage of the barons of Northumberland at Felton , where Eustace de Vesci , by the presentation of a white wand , formally made over the three northern ...
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Page 561 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
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