 | John Platts - 1825 - 706 pages
...Wight to receive them, and landed in safety on the western coast ; and convinced the Britons, says Gibbon, " that a superiority of naval strength will...always protect their country from a foreign invasion." As soon as the troops were landed, the intrepid commander set fire to the ships, and marched forward... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - 1837 - 306 pages
...Allectus held his fleet, as the 1 This landing of the Romans, according to Gibbon, convinced the Britons " that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." It is difficult to say, after the lengthy preparations of Constantius, whether the invading fleets... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...xxiii. p. 523. 422 5"S. VII. JURE 2, 77.) 423 observes Gibbon (vol. ii. p. 124), "convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." Here I have done with Carausius. On a future occasion I shall consider how learned men have disputed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion. Asclepiodotus had no sooner disembarked the imperial troops than he set fire to his ships ; and, as... | |
 | Algernon Percy Duke of Northumberland, William Henry Smyth - 1856 - 372 pages
...paragraph of this paper. f This landing of the Romans, according to Gibbon, convinced the Britons " that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." It is difficult to say, after the lengthy preparations of Constantius, whether the invading fleets... | |
 | 1861 - 746 pages
...makes a remark which may be not unseasonable at the present moment, that it "convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." The Rev. T. Myers suggested that the curiosities which could be appropriately ranged under the head... | |
 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 pages
...the Isle of Wight to receive them, landed on some part of the West coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion. No sooner had the Roman admiral disembarked the Imperial troops, than he set fire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 480 pages
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreig.i invasion. Asclepiodotus had no sooner disembarked the imperial troops than he set fire to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1893 - 610 pages
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion.' This reads, at first sight, like a direct negation of the principle which we have... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 712 pages
...escaped the fleet of Allectus, off the Isle of Wight, and, as Gibbon remarks, ' convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion.' Asclepiodotus burnt his ships after disembarking his troops on some part of the... | |
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The weather proved favourable to their enterprise. Under the cover of a thick fog they escaped the fleet of Allectus, which had been stationed off the Isle of Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the... 
