The invasion of Roman

The United Kingdom was invaded many times in its early history. By about 300 BC people called Celts had arrived on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Roman came in the 1st century BC. England and Wales were part of the Roman Empire until the AD 400s.

In 55 BC, as a sidebar campaigns to his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar crossed the channel. Sailing with two legions, he landed at Dover on August 26 and moved on to Kent. Fierce battles ensued with the local inhabitants.

The victory was delayed because of further uprisings and a storm that wrecked many of the Roman transports. The following years in July the Romans began a second invasion. This time 600 transports five legions and around 2000 Gallic horseman arrived in Kent to discover no unified opposition from the local tribes. He managed to set up a client king from the Trinovantes.

The attempt, to which Caesar left unfinished, was renewed by Claudius and his success was greater. Agricola, the general of Domitian, finished what Claudius had begun. He extended his conquest to the northern part of the island; his fleet circumnavigated the whole.

The Romans again launched a full-scale invasion of Britain in AD 43, moving westward across the country. Twenty of the southwest hill forts fell quickly to the II Augusta Legion, came from Strasbourg under the general Titus Flavius Vespasianus. They subsequently conquering much of Britain, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Empire as Britannia province.

The Britain Empire expanded to the British Isles and maintained order through its legions. Despite its distance from the center, Britain had been a flourishing part of the Roman Empire until well into the fourth century.

With the collapse of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes, known as Anglo-Saxons, invaded England.
The invasion of Roman

Viking invasion of England

In 789, the Vikings attacked the Isles of Portland in the English Channel and killed an official from Dorchester Manor. This is the first Viking attacked in the British Isles.

In 851 AD their attacks had become more common and for that reason they spent the winters on the British island with no intention of leaving soon.

Eventually the raids turned into an invasion and in 865 a large Viking army swept through England. Most of the Viking raiders came from the lands known as Denmark and Norway. The Vikings who attacked England were referred to by the Anglo-Saxon as Dene ‘Danes’, but there were also Norwegians among them.

A huge Viking army landed in East Anglia, and within five years the Danes controlled most of northeast England.

They invaded eastern England, Ireland and Scotland to create permanent agricultural settlement.

Viking attacks on England fall into two periods. From 793 to the treaty of Wedmore in 878 which restricted the Danes to an area called ‘the Danelaw’ and from 975 to 1016 when the Viking leader Cnut became King of England.

As the Viking began to settle in England, so their language began to create changes in the English language. English grammar soon was modeled on Scandinavian grammar.
Viking invasion of England