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THE SEAMAN'S POINT OF VIEW
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because the Celts of Britain were giving help to their Gallic kinsmen, he crossed the Channel and smote them in their island base.
Fig. 7.—The Latin Peninsula, occupied by the modern Romance nations.
A hundred years later the Romans conquered all the lower and more fruitful portion of Britain, and so eliminated the risk of the rise of a sea-power off the Gallic coast. In this way the Channel also became a 'closed sea,' controlled by land-power.
