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Rh because the Celts of Britain were giving help to their Gallic kinsmen, he crossed the Channel and smote them in their island base. Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1919 Fig 7 p57.jpg —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.