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The history of England begins with the Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Great Britain about ad 449. They displaced the previous occupants from the south-eastern part of the island and called it Angle-land, or England. Previously, the island, like Europe, was home for a succession of peoples dating from the beginnings of the Old Stone Age. The rising sea level produced the English Channel and made Great Britain an island.The Picts, a fierce and warlike people, successfully resisted conquest by the Romans, whose great general, Gnaeus Julius Agricola. After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in 409, the Picts systematically raided the territories of their southern neighbors. The adjacent region to the north was occupied toward the beginning of the 6th century by the Scots, Celtic invaders from northern Ireland, who established the kingdom that became known in history as Dalriada. The first phase of the Scottish war of independence ended victoriously for Edward, who crushed Baliol’s army at Dunbar in April 1296 and decreed the annexation of Scotland to England. Baliol was deposed, and his kingdom was placed under military occupation.
By the 13th Century many Norman nobles owned land on both sides of the border between England and Scotland, and some of them had loyalties to the kings of both countries. Edward was at war with France, but the Scots had a treaty with them, so when Edward asked the Scots to send troops to help him in his war with France, in 1295, the Scots refused, and this led to the Scottish Wars of Independence.
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United Kingdom,
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Scottish Kings,
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Scots Celtic,
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