Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

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Holmes, T. Rice (Thomas Rice), 1855-1933

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Great Britain -- History -- Invasions

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57336

Release Date

June 15, 2018

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE INVASIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR BY T. RICE HOLMES Hon. Litt.D. ( Dublin ) AUTHOR OF ‘A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY’ ‘CAESAR’S CONQUEST OF GAUL,’ ETC. ‘There seems no human thought so primitive as to have lost its bearing on our own thought, nor so ancient as to have broken its connection with our own life’.— E. B. Tylor. OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1907
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE INVASIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR
5. 5.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER II — THE PALAEOLITHIC AGE
7. 7.CHAPTER III — THE NEOLITHIC AGE
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — THE BRONZE AGE AND THE VOYAGE OF PYTHEAS
9. 9.CHAPTER V — THE EARLY IRON AGE
10. 10.CHAPTER VI — CAESAR’S FIRST INVASION OF BRITAIN
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — CAESAR’S SECOND INVASION OF BRITAIN
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE RESULTS OF CAESAR’S INVASIONS OF BRITAIN
13. 13.THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN — I. INTRODUCTION — II">THE METHODS OF ANTHROPOLOGY — III. EOLITHIC MAN(?) — IV. PALAEOLITHIC MAN — V. THE PYGMIES (?) — VI. NEOLITHIC MAN — VII. THE ‘PICTISH QUESTION’ — VIII. THE ROUND-HEADS — IX. THE CELTS — X. CONCLUSION
14. 14.THE NAMES ΠΡΕΤΑΝΙΚΑΙ ΝΗΣΟΙ, BRITANNI AND BRITANNIA
15. 15.THE BIRTHDAY OF RELIGION
16. 16.DUMBUCK, LANGBANK, DUNBUIE
17. 17.INHUMATION AND CREMATION
18. 18.SEPULCHRAL POTTERY
19. 19.STONEHENGE
20. 20.THE CASSITERIDES, ICTIS, AND THE BRITISH TRADE IN TIN — I. THE CASSITERIDES — II. ICTIS AND THE BRITISH TRADE IN TIN — Let us now consider the British trade in tin.
21. 21.DENE-HOLES
22. 22.THE COAST BETWEEN CALAIS AND THE SOMME IN THE TIME OF CAESAR
23. 23.THE CONFIGURATION OF THE COAST OF KENT IN THE TIME OF CAESAR — I. BETWEEN RAMSGATE AND SANDOWN CASTLE — II. BETWEEN SANDOWN CASTLE AND WALMER CASTLE — III. THE GOODWIN SANDS — IV. THE SOUTH FORELAND AND THE DOVER CLIFFS — V. DOVER HARBOUR — MAP OF ROMNEY MARSH PROPER and the parts adjacent — ROMNEYMARSH as (according to T. Lewin’s final view) It was certainly in the TIME OF THE SAXONS probably in the TIME OF THE ROMANS and perhaps in the TIME OF THE BRITONS — VI. BETWEEN DOVER AND SANDGATE — VII. ROMNEY MARSH
24. 24.PORTUS ITIUS — I. REVIEW OF THE CONTROVERSY — II. THE DATA FURNISHED BY CAESAR, STRABO, AND PTOLEMY — III. CAESAR SAILED FROM THE PORTUS ITIUS ON BOTH HIS EXPEDITIONS — IV. THE VALUE OF CAESAR’S ESTIMATE OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE PORTUS ITIUS AND BRITAIN — V. THE ESTUARY OF THE SOMME — VI. AMBLETEUSE — VII. CALAIS — VIII. WISSANT — IX. BOULOGNE
25. 25.THE PLACE OF CAESAR’S LANDING IN BRITAIN — I. INTRODUCTION — II. THE DATA FURNISHED BY CAESAR AND OTHER ANCIENT WRITERS — III. THE DAY ON WHICH CAESAR LANDED IN 55 B.C. — IV. DID CAESAR LAND AT THE SAME PLACE IN BOTH HIS EXPEDITIONS? — V. THE VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT CAESAR’S PLACE OF LANDING — VI. THE QUESTION OF THE TIDES — VII. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED AT PEVENSEY — VIII. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED AT LYMPNE OR HYTHE — IX. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED AT HURST — X. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED BETWEEN HURST AND KENNARDINGTON — XI. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED BETWEEN WALMER AND DEAL — XII. THE THEORY THAT CAESAR LANDED AT RICHBOROUGH OR SANDWICH
26. 26.THE CREDIBILITY OF CAESAR’S NARRATIVE OF HIS INVASIONS OF BRITAIN
27. 27.THE DISEMBARKATION OF THE ROMANS IN 55 B. C.
28. 28.THE SITE OF CAESAR’S CAMP IN 55, AND OF HIS NAVAL CAMP IN 54 B. C.
29. 29.THE WAR-CHARIOTS OF THE BRITONS
30. 30.THE OPERATIONS OF THE BRITONS DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS OF CAESAR’S FIRST EXPEDITION
31. 31.WHERE DID CAESAR ENCOUNTER THE BRITONS ON THE MORNING AFTER HIS SECOND LANDING IN BRITAIN?
32. 32.CAESAR’S EARLIER OPERATIONS IN 54 B. C. ( B. G. , V, 9-11)
33. 33.CAESAR’S SECOND COMBAT WITH THE BRITONS IN 54 B. C.
34. 34.THE COMBAT BETWEEN TREBONIUS AND THE BRITONS
35. 35.WHERE DID CAESAR CROSS THE THAMES?
36. 36.CAESAR’S PASSAGE OF THE THAMES
37. 37.THE SITE OF CASSIVELLAUNUS’S STRONGHOLD
38. 38.DID LONDINIUM EXIST IN CAESAR’S TIME?
39. 39.THE JULIAN CALENDAR AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF CAESAR’S INVASIONS OF BRITAIN
40. 40.TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES
41. 41.ADDENDA
42. 42.INDEX — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note:

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