THE INVASIONS OF ENGLAND THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE THE REARGUARD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION BY EDWARD FOORD CONTAINING 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND 7 SKETCH-MAPS Price 7s. 6d. net WHAT TO SEE IN ENGLAND A GUIDE TO THE PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST, NATURAL BEAUTY, OR LITERARY ASSOCIATION BY GORDON HOME NEW EDITION, CONTAINING 166 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS by THE AUTHOR AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, ALSO A MAP Price 3s. 6d. net PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4, 5 AND 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. W. AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 300 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA [Illustration: _A. Rischgitz._ ADMIRAL MICHIEL ADRIAANSZOON DE RUIJTER. The guns of whose fleet were heard at Whitehall in 1667. The greatest of Dutch naval commanders.] THE INVASIONS OF ENGLAND BY EDWARD FOORD AND GORDON HOME A. AND C. BLACK, LIMITED SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. : 1915 _Published, 1913, as_ ‘ENGLAND INVADED’ _Reissued, 1915, as_ ‘THE INVASIONS OF ENGLAND’ PREFACE TO REISSUE It has quite recently been stated in an American journal that Herr Dernburg--the German official apologist to the United States--speaking of the shelling of Hartlepool and Yorkshire watering-places, was convinced that it would ‘bring home to the English people a keen realization of the fact that every serious attempt to invade England in the past has been successful.’ Had Herr Dernburg read any connected narrative of the invasions of England we are of opinion that he would never have made this statement, for it is obvious that since the Norman conquest no successful invasion has taken place without the active sympathy and assistance of a great section of the population. Both before and during the present war the Germans have shown themselves so incapable of reading correctly the habits of thought of the British, of Americans, of Indians, of South Africans, that one is scarcely surprised to find them ignorant of the history of the British peoples also.