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Caesar - BC
In Hilaire Belloc words , ‘There is a lonely place
in the woods by Chilham in the County of Kent, above the
River Stour, where a man comes upon an irregular earthwork
where the British stood against the charge of the Tenth
Legion, and first heard , sounding on their bronze, the arms
of Caesar. Here the river was forded; here the little men of
the south went up in formation; here the Barbarian broke and
took his way, as the opposing general recorded, through
devious woodland paths, scattering in the pursuit! Here
began the great history of England.’ This skirmish
almost certainly took place in the sight of Chilham Castle
and was probably one of the first battles ever fought in
this country by Caesar.
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