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... Empire ; The Banner of the Cross ; The Founding of Constantinople - Julian the Apostate , A.D. 360-363 , CHAPTER III . MIGRATION OF RACES . Attila , A.D. 451 — Alaric , A.D. 410 - Theodoric the Great , A.D. 500 , PAGE I - 14 15-42 43-68 ...
... Empire ; The Banner of the Cross ; The Founding of Constantinople - Julian the Apostate , A.D. 360-363 , CHAPTER III . MIGRATION OF RACES . Attila , A.D. 451 — Alaric , A.D. 410 - Theodoric the Great , A.D. 500 , PAGE I - 14 15-42 43-68 ...
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... Empire - Haroun al Rashid- Splendour of the Caliphate - Christian Missionaries : Boni- face , the Apostle of the Germans , A.D. 754 - Apostles of the North St Anscharius , A.D. 831 ; Saint Adalbert , • 69-88 89-124 CHAPTER VI ...
... Empire - Haroun al Rashid- Splendour of the Caliphate - Christian Missionaries : Boni- face , the Apostle of the Germans , A.D. 754 - Apostles of the North St Anscharius , A.D. 831 ; Saint Adalbert , • 69-88 89-124 CHAPTER VI ...
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... empire over northern Germany . At first the enterprise met with success . The Germans were brave , war- like , and independent ; but being divided into many tribes , disunited , and ignorant of the art of war , they made no com- pact or ...
... empire over northern Germany . At first the enterprise met with success . The Germans were brave , war- like , and independent ; but being divided into many tribes , disunited , and ignorant of the art of war , they made no com- pact or ...
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... empire further and further by force or fraud ; their forts and garrisons on German soil had become more and more numer- ous ; and German manners were more and more thrust aside . In order to impose the yoke of slavery gradually and im ...
... empire further and further by force or fraud ; their forts and garrisons on German soil had become more and more numer- ous ; and German manners were more and more thrust aside . In order to impose the yoke of slavery gradually and im ...
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... Empire , which had fallen to pieces since fidelity and honesty had become . extinct . The Batavians , who dwelt by the mouths of the Rhine , had long been numbered among the allies of Rome . At that time there lived among them a man ...
... Empire , which had fallen to pieces since fidelity and honesty had become . extinct . The Batavians , who dwelt by the mouths of the Rhine , had long been numbered among the allies of Rome . At that time there lived among them a man ...
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