British Foreign Relationships :: History

British Foreign RelationshipsBeginningsThe first time that the British came into contact from outside people since the disappearance of the land bridge connecting the British Isles to mainland Europe occured in the year 43 A.D. This was the year that Ceasar s send outdoor(a) a Roman expeditionary force chthonic the command of Aulus Platius to the British Isles. Although the natal Celtic tribesmen put up heavy initial resistance, superior fortify and trained Roman Legionnairies were able to subdue them and successfully occupy immense Britian all the way up to the border of modern day Scotland.oer the course of the next 367 years, Great Britian experiences an era of relative peace under Roman rule. Celtic and Roman culture coalesced into a preposterous society, and Christianity was introduced to Britain. The year 410 A.D. brought about great miscellanea though, when Rome withdrew all of its argument forces from Britain in order to fight the Goths in western Germany. This aband onment remaining the British people very vulnerable, and almost immediately after struggleds assorted Scandanavian and Germanic tribes began raiding the seemingly defenseless British Isles. Three of these groups, the Anglos, the Saxons, and the Jutes, began establishing enduring settlements along Englands southern coast (the word England actually descends from the countrys ancient allude Angliland, or Anglo Land.) After years of widespread ethnic conflict, the Anglo-Saxons had driven the indigenous Britons back 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 except were known as the Danes to the Anglo-Saxons. Violent conflict erupted as the Vikings pillaged, looted, and terrorized coastal Britain. At one point, the Vikings under the leadership of King Harrod came close to actually pickings over the entire island but were defe ated at the battle of Dover.The British people, now united under a single government, continued to tug Viking invasion 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 total heat 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 civil war, causing British holdings in mainland Europe to erode away in a period of time known as The war of the Roses.