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... heads of the fami- lies from which the tribes had sprung ; they were the leaders in war and rulers in time of peace ; but they do not seem to have been absolute , for they admitted the principal warriors to a share in the government ...
... heads of the fami- lies from which the tribes had sprung ; they were the leaders in war and rulers in time of peace ; but they do not seem to have been absolute , for they admitted the principal warriors to a share in the government ...
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... head , and surrounded by priests and bards . He also presided at a more fearful scene , when prisoners taken in war were slaughtered one by one on the altar , or burnt to death in companies . The Druids of Britain were famed throughout ...
... head , and surrounded by priests and bards . He also presided at a more fearful scene , when prisoners taken in war were slaughtered one by one on the altar , or burnt to death in companies . The Druids of Britain were famed throughout ...
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... head of a great army , swept down upon London , then a great and flourishing Roman colony , burned it to the ground , and ravaged the whole country round it . Suetonius , on hearing of this , returned by rapid marches , and met the ...
... head of a great army , swept down upon London , then a great and flourishing Roman colony , burned it to the ground , and ravaged the whole country round it . Suetonius , on hearing of this , returned by rapid marches , and met the ...
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... the Normans would be more obedient and more liberal to the Church of Rome . So he preached a kind of crusade against England , and sent William a conse- crated banner , to be carried at the head of 24 A CONCISE HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... the Normans would be more obedient and more liberal to the Church of Rome . So he preached a kind of crusade against England , and sent William a conse- crated banner , to be carried at the head of 24 A CONCISE HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... head of a great host , near the mouth of the Humber , and marched to York , which they besieged . Harold , the Saxon king , who had been watching the southern coast all the summer , marched north in haste , and attacked the Norwegian ...
... head of a great host , near the mouth of the Humber , and marched to York , which they besieged . Harold , the Saxon king , who had been watching the southern coast all the summer , marched north in haste , and attacked the Norwegian ...
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