Excerpt from Ontario Public School: History of England The Roman Conquest - From a port in Gaul, near what is now Calais, at midnight on August 26th, 55 bc, a Roman fleet, laden with about ten thousand soldiers, set out for Britain. As the ships headed in the dark toward that strange land, many a Roman soldier, we may be sure, felt the thrill and awe which come when we face mystery and danger. There were heavy sailing-ships, but there were also boats with out sails - Roman galleys, rowed by lusty slaves. The leader was a man now forty-seven years old, full of rest less energy, a little bald, with a thin, pale, clean - shaven face, a long nose, and keen eyes, which peered Often into the darkness on that eventful night. He was the greatest captain of his age, Julius Caesar. Already the chief figure in Roman political life and the conqueror Of Gaul, he was setting out to master a new world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.