British Foreign Relationships :: History

British Foreign RelationshipsBeginningsThe set-back time that the British came into f all into place from outside people since the disappearance of the land bridge connecting the British Isles to mainland europium occured in the social class 43 A.D. This was the year that Ceasar send a popish expeditionary force under the command of Aulus Platius to the British Isles. Although the indigenous Gaelic tribesmen put up heavy initial resistance, superior armed and accomplished roman letters Legionnairies were able to subdue them and successfully occupy Great Britian all the way up to the border of modern day Scotland.Over the hightail it of the next 367 years, Great Britian experiences an era of relative peace under Roman rule. Celtic and Roman culture coalesced into a unique society, and Christianity was introduced to Britain. The year 410 A.D. brought about great change though, when Rome withdrew all of its occupation forces from Britain in order to fight the Goths in western G ermany. This abandonment left the British people very vulnerable, and almost immediately afterwards various Scandanavian and Germanic tribes began raiding the seemingly defenseless British Isles. Three of these groups, the Anglos, the Saxons, and the Jutes, began establishing permanent settlements on Englands southern coast (the word England actually descends from the countrys ancient name Angliland, or Anglo Land.) subsequently years of widespread ethnic conflict, the Anglo-Saxons had driven the indigenous Britons keep going to modern day Scotland and Wales, and came to dominate most of the main island. Towards the end of the first century another group begins to plunder the British Isles, they called themselves the Vikings but were k in a flash as the Danes to the Anglo-Saxons. Violent conflict erupted as the Vikings pillaged, looted, and terrorized coastal Britain. At maven point, the Vikings under the leadership of King Harrod came close to actually taking over the entire i sland but were defeated at the passage of arms of Dover.The British people, now united under a single government, continued to repel Viking intrusion attempts until 1066, when William of Normandy defeated an exhausted and ill equiped British army at the battle of Hastings. William went to London and made himself the new king of Britain. Massive change resulted from Norman rule, establishing a new ruling class. During this period, King William, and King Henry II expanded their empire into France and Britian became a powerful nation in Europe. After the death of king Henry though, social unrest arose, which eventually manifested itself into civilised war, causing British holdings in mainland Europe to erode away in a period of time known as The war of the Roses.