The Beauties of England And Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, And Descriptive, of Each County 7
The Beauties of England And Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, And Descriptive, of Each County 7
Bigland, John, 1750-1832
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J 408 tzflTi mise to submit to the Roman Empire^ eonsented to make tf tifiait;, but demanded hostages for its fulfiiroent ; some of which were im- mediately given, and others promised to be sent in a few dtjo. lo the mean time, Ca»ar appears to have continued in his camp, waiting the arrival of his cavalry, which, on the fourth day, ap- peared in aght, m eighteen vessels; yet, before they could reach the coast, they were dispersed by a sodden storm, and again obliged to bear away for the Contin...ent. On the same nigjht, die moon beittg at full, the water rose so high with At spnog tide, that the whole of the Roman vesseb, some of which were at anchor, and the otliers drawn up on shore^ were greatly damaged, and several of them entirely destroyed^ Aff soon as the British diiefs who had been assembled to per- tonsi their agreement with Gaesar, knew of this, and that the Ro- mans were without horses, ships, and provisions, they detenmncd to break their Tate engagements; and privately withdrawmg from the camp, begun to assemble their forcet in secrecy and haste^ €attar, who suspected some design of this land from the delay ia the delivery of the remaining hostages, and other dreumstances, sought assiduottsly to repair his shipS/ and to fumbb hb canq> with provbions^ While thus employed, the out-guards of his camp gave hun notice, that they observed a great dood of dust riasog in that part of tlie country where tlie seventh legion had been sent to forage* Apprehensive of what proved to be the real cause, he quitted ^le camp vrith two cohorts, and givmg orden fer the rest of his army to follow, i^dvanced to the relief of his Ibiagers, who had been suiprised while reding com; and some of them bdng slain^ the remainder were swrounded by the horses and chariots of the Britons, and were in great danger of entire defeat.
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