Excerpt from Ontario Public School History of England Julius Caesar first led the Romans into Britain. He found a people that were warlike, of some mechanical. Ability, and with a slight know ledge oi agriculture. Rome celebrated the invasion, but made no immediate attempts to conquer the country. About a century later, the Romans, after a fierce contest, subdued the island as far north as the Solway, made settlements, drained swamps, built Walls and roads, cultivated the soil, and ruled in the land for nearly four hundred years They finally abandoned the country in 410 A. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.