...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Chil... ...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s Hist... ... ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................... ...CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sph... ...nd trusty animals. The art I mean, is the construction and man agement of war chariots or cars, for which they have ever been celebrated in history. ... ..., but of a strong mind. And his armies fought the Northmen, the Danes, and Norwegians, or the Sea Kings, as they were called, and beat them for the ti... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ...ntry, and aided by a storm occasioned the loss of nearly the whole English navy. There was but one man of note, at this miser able pass, who was true... ...e great battle between the two forces, the Dutch lost eighteen ships, four admirals, and seven thousand men. But, the English on shore were in no mood...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is t...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KING...