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ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY

– 1770s) B. The Early Conquests The beginnings of England’s colonial policy are to be found in the twelfth century when the Anglo-Norman kings began their invasions of Ireland. The conquest was completed under Henry VIII who was declared King of Ireland by the Irish Parliament in 15411. Wales, whose inhabitants successfully maintained their independence throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, was conquered by Edward I in the late thirteenth century2. It was incorporated into England by Henry VIII in 1536. By the seventeenth century the Tudors had prepared England for greater achievements overseas. Colonizing Faraway Lands3 The first permanent English settlement Jamestown4, in Virginia (North America), was founded in 1607. Another successful colony was established in about 1612 on the Bermuda Islands in the West Indies. In the following decades of the