The Storming of London and the Thames Valley Campaign

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Excerpt from The Storming of London and the Thames Valley Campaign: A Military Study of the Conquest of Britain by the AnglesT is a truism to state that the principles which governed a great national conquest like that of Britain by the Angles must have been the principles of warfare by sea and land. And yet this conquest has never been 'studied from the military standpoint, and so the important questions to which such a study gives rise have never received definite answers, if indeed they have ever been asked. Historians seem hardly to have realized the enormous difficulties raised by the current version of the history of the conquest of Britain by the Angles. This book is written to show how much better an explanation is given of that conquest, if it is assumed that it could not have been, and was not, carried out regardless of the principles of warfare.One word in explanation of how the author arrived at the views he is now putting forward. Men of science, much as they owe to conjecture in the investigation and co-ordination of facts, are careful to avoid the snare of constructing a theory first, and then fitting the facts into it and the author desires to put on record that such was not the course he pursued but in each case it was the study of the hard facts that forced the hypothesis upon him. And when a hypothesis had been thus formed it was fairly used, at first tentatively, and afterwards with increasing confidence, to co-ordinate other facts, and eventually, having proved itself trustworthy, it was used as a guide in the search for and testing of fresh facts, not hitherto recognized as evidence. Such a use of theory is perfectly legitimate, and, should the theories advanced in this work be accepted as reasonable, they will doubtless be used in a similar manner by other investigators in the same field.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.