"Unlike all the other Germanic swarms, the English took neither creed nor custom, neither law nor speech, from their beaten foes. The average Englishman, American, or Australian of to-day who wishes to recall the feats of power with which his race should be credited in the shadow of the dawn of its history, may go back to the half-mythical glories of Hengist and Horsa, from whom we and our principles descend, or perhaps to the deeds of Civilis the Batavian, or to those of the hero of the Teutoberger fight, but certainly to the wars of the Catuvellauni chief, Caractacus, and of his conqueror, the after-time Emperor Claudius."—Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West.