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., 2"!!™, T ,'" ^""^ "^ *'"" ^^'^'- '^^"tury, th. geographical position of 

 tlie British Isles was unfavourable to the growth of a Colonial 

 Empire. Situated on the west flank of Europe, their earliest 

 inhabitants, the ancient Britons, remained outside the influence of 

 the then civilized world, till the Roman Invasion under Julius 

 Ca;sar in B.C. 55, The effective Roman occupation of Britain lasted 

 from a century later to a.d. 411, when the legions were finally with- 

 drawn. The second or Saxon Conquest of Britain began with the 

 landing of Hengist in 449 at Ebbsflect, in tlie Isle of Thanet and 

 after a struggle of over 150 years the last of the Brilons were driven 

 into the recesses of the Welsh hills. The last or Norman Conquest 

 of the British Isles resulted in tlie gradual fusion of the Saxons and 

 Normans into the English race, and in the temporary acquisition of 

 territoiy in France, which reached its largest extent under Henry II 

 whose French possessions are sliown in the map below. At the end 

 of the XV century, the discoveries of the New \\^orId and the Sea 

 Koute to India shifted the centre of the world to the British Isles 

 and awoke m Englishmen a consciousness of their maritime vocation ■ 









the British Empire, therefore, dates from these discoveries tlie be- 

 ginning of its history, whicli may be divided into the four periods 

 ^™'^ "" ^'"^ """P ^'bove. Ftrsi Period— From the early part of Ih 

 XVJ. Ccninry to lyij.—Ju this period Newfoundland (the oldest 

 English colony) and New England were settled ; Nova Scotia, 

 Hudson Bay, Jamaica and otlier West Indian Islands, and Gibraltar 

 were acquired ; and the first settlements in India and West Africa 

 were made. Sccotid Pcriod^From 1/7 ? to 7^/,-.— The cJiief acquisi- 

 tions of this period were Canad^i, Trinidad and Guiana in America, 

 the Cape and Sierra Leone in Africa, Ceylon, a great expansion of 

 territory m India, and the formation of the first settlements in 

 Australia. Tliis period is also notewortliy for the loss of the Nortii 

 American Colonies. Third Period—From /.S*/, to i A\y .—yinrked by 

 tlie steady, and, as a rule, peacehil settlement and development of 

 the agricultural colonies in N. America, S. Africa and Australasia, 

 aiid by the expansion of British power in India. Fourth Period— 

 From 1S84 to the Present Ortv.— Remarkable for an enormous expan- 

 sion of the British Empire in trojncal countries, especially Africa, 



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