The invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar. With Replies to the remarks of the astonomer-royal and of the late Camden professor of ancient history at OxfordLongman, 1862 - 255 Seiten |
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Ambleteuse anchor ancient Appledore army arrival Astronomer-Royal August Boulogne Britain Britanniam British Britons Cæs Cæsar landed Cæsar sailed Calais camp Cassivelaun Catyeuchlani cavalry Channel Cicero cliffs coast course Coway Coway Stakes debarcation Dion direction distance drift Dungeness Point Dymchurch Wall east eastward eight miles embarked enemy estuary expedition favour feet fleet Folkestone full moon Gaul Guildeford half harbour Hastings haven high water high-water hills Hist Icius invasion island Kent legions Lewin Liane Limen Limne Lydd Mandubert Morini mouth passage paullo Pevensey port Portus Itius probably quæ Rhee Wall river Robertsbridge Roman miles Romney Marsh Romney Marsh Proper Rother run west Sandgate says shingle spit ships shore slack water Somme South Foreland south-west Stour stream Stuttfall Sussex Thames tide Treviri Trinobantes triremes troops turn vessels Walland Marsh water at Dover West Hythe westward wind Wissant wood καὶ
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Seite 119 - It was defended naturally, by fosses ; one formed by the creek which ran along Fleet Ditch ; the other afterwards known by the name of Wall-brook : the south side was guarded by the Thames. The north they might think sufficiently protected by the adjacent forest...
Seite xx - Tune facto prœlio remiserunt, et in petenda pace, ejus rei culpam in multitudinem contulerunt, et propter imprudentiam, ut ignosceretur, petiverunt. Caesar questus, quod quum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem a se petissent, bellum sine...
Seite x - Atque omnes ad portum Itium convenire jubet : quo ex portu commodissimum in Britanniam transjectum esse cognoverat, circiter millium passuum xxx. a continenti.
Seite 27 - In this year the great army, about which we formerly" spoke, came again from the eastern kingdom westward to Boulogne, and there was shipped ; so that they came over in one passage, horses and all ; and they came to land at Limene-mouth with two hundred and fifty ships.
Seite lxxx - Caesar's departure from his anchorage, that the circumstances of the in-shore tides should be known and taken into account. Captain Beechey, who made the survey of the Channel, under the direction of the Admiralty, was applied to on this point by the Astronomer Royal, and gave him the following answer...
Seite 39 - Dover the flowing stream seldom continues more than 5 hours, and sometimes scarcely so much ; it is nearly the same at Ramsgate. To the northward of the South Foreland the streams change their direction to NE £ N.
Seite 112 - As late as 1807 there was a ford here, the line of which had been traced by persons wading through the current when the waters were low.TT
Seite lxxx - There is one person above all others at Dover, on whose judgment reliance would be placed in a disputed question of this nature. Accustomed to cross the Channel in command of an important service, he has a personal knowledge of its currents, and much responsibility attaching to that knowledge ; connected...
Seite lxxxi - Caesar started. May not the state of the tide have been one of the reasons which made him remain so long and no longer at his anchorage ? But the matter was brought to a crisis by the following question : — " Many years ago some transports lay off Dover, say, half a mile from the shore ; on that day it was...
Seite cix - ... years will have elapsed since the sea first left the original ' full ' at Lydd. This would be about the time of the first landing of the Romans in this country, and it is not improbable that some of their works at the then Port of New Romney formed the nucleus of what is now Dungeness Point.