Author: Maria Elizabeth Budden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780267553266

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Excerpt from True Stories, From Modern History: Chronologically Arranged, From the Death of Charlemagne to the Battle of Waterloo I have already told you, ' that the Saxons, a people from Germany, had conquered England, and divided it into seven kingdoms, each ruled by its own prince and that this was called the Saxon Heptarchy, or sevenfold government. Egbert, one of these princes, having become sovereign of more than one of these kingdoms, by the right of succession, resolved to make himself master of the rest. He therefore raised an army and soon conquering all the other princes, he succeeded in his plan, and united all the small principalities into one great monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book True Stories, From Modern History written by Maria Elizabeth Budden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from True Stories, From Modern History: Chronologically Arranged, From the Death of Charlemagne to the Battle of Waterloo I have already told you, ' that the Saxons, a people from Germany, had conquered England, and divided it into seven kingdoms, each ruled by its own prince and that this was called the Saxon Heptarchy, or sevenfold government. Egbert, one of these princes, having become sovereign of more than one of these kingdoms, by the right of succession, resolved to make himself master of the rest. He therefore raised an army and soon conquering all the other princes, he succeeded in his plan, and united all the small principalities into one great monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.