Excerpt from The History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 A long and cruel war now broke out between the War he Saxons and Britons, in which many battles were fought, tween the of which we have but very imperfeet accounts. In one bagogs. Of thefe ae'tions near Ailesford, Horfa, one of the Saxon 11 chieftains, was flain, by which his brother Hengil't be came fole commander of their united forces. This illuf trions chief, about two years after, gained a great vielory over the Britons, at Creecanford, now Crayford, which gave him the poifeflion of all Kent, and emboldened him to allume the name of hing, having before this contented himfelf with the hu'mbler title of 'her'etogen, or general This was the Brit Saxon kingdom, that of Kent, founded, about eight years after the arrival of Hengilt and his fol lowers in this illand. 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.