And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Back in the 1990s I read an excellent book on the 5000 years of history of the British Isles. I realize that the title of this one is about the Anglo Saxons. But it is VERY misleading to imply that the beginning of England was in the year 400. Good grief. How stupid can they be? It might be the history of the Anglo Saxons, but it certainly was NOT the beginning of England.
It's the beginning of England in roughly 400AD because it was the beginning of Angle-land.... Before the Angles came it was Roman Brittania. And as far as I know, I think before that there were just the Celtic Britons.
Bede gave a precise date, 449AD, for the first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and he said they came from three tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who themselves came from different parts of Germany and Denmark – the Angles were from Angeln, which is a small district in northern Germany; the Saxons were from what is now Lower Saxony, also in northern Germany; and the Jutes were from Jutland, now part of Denmark. According to Bede the Angles settled in East Anglia, the Saxons in southern England, and the Jutes in Kent and the Isle of Wight.
There were many settlers here before that, as a child I was fascinated by the beaker people. I asked my history teacher why were they called that. His answer was that they had just invented beer.
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ReplyDeleteBack in the 1990s I read an excellent book on the 5000 years of history of the British Isles. I realize that the title of this one is about the Anglo Saxons. But it is VERY misleading to imply that the beginning of England was in the year 400. Good grief. How stupid can they be? It might be the history of the Anglo Saxons, but it certainly was NOT the beginning of England.
ReplyDeleteIt's a first-rate history.
ReplyDeleteIt's the beginning of England in roughly 400AD because it was the beginning of Angle-land.... Before the Angles came it was Roman Brittania. And as far as I know, I think before that there were just the Celtic Britons.
ReplyDeleteBede gave a precise date, 449AD, for the first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and he said they came from three tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who themselves came from different parts of Germany and Denmark – the Angles were from Angeln, which is a small district in northern Germany; the Saxons were from what is now Lower Saxony, also in northern Germany; and the Jutes were from Jutland, now part of Denmark. According to Bede the Angles settled in East Anglia, the Saxons in southern England, and the Jutes in Kent and the Isle of Wight.
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There were many settlers here before that, as a child I was fascinated by the beaker people. I asked my history teacher why were they called that. His answer was that they had just invented beer.