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By 410 Rome itself was in such danger that they took
their last ships and soldiers away from Celtic Britain, which at once
became the prey of the first good fighting men who came that way;
because the Celts, never united enough to make a proper army or navy of
their own, were now weaker than ever, after having had their country
defended by other people for the last four hundred years.


CHAPTER V
THE HARDY NORSEMAN
(449-1066)
The British Empire leads the whole world both in size and population.
It ended the Great War with the greatest of all the armies, the
greatest of all the navies, and the greatest of all the mercantile
marines. Better still, it not only did most towards keeping its
own--which is by far the oldest--freedom in the world, but it also did
most towards helping all its Allies to be free. There are many reasons
why we now enjoy these blessings. But there are three without which we
never could have had a single one. The first, of course, is sea-power.
But this itself depends on the second reason, which, in its turn,
depends upon the third.


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