came saw him or his Romans any more.

Do you know who these savages were who fought with Julius Caesar?
They were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was
our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the
place where Julius Caesar landed is called Deal, and, if you look at
the map where England and France most nearly touch one another, I
think you will see the name Deal, and remember it was there Julius
Caesar landed, and fought with the Britons.

It was fifty-five years before our blessed Saviour was born that
the Romans came. So at the top of this chapter stands B.C. (Before
Christ) 55.




CHAPTER II.

THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41--418.


It was nearly a hundred years before any more of the Romans came to
Britain; but they were people who could not hear of a place without
wanting to conquer it, and they never left off trying till they had
done what they undertook.

One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer
the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself
Brittanicus in honor of the victory, just as if he had done it