They were there defeated; and from their defeat, as it is said, arose a new people.

They are supposed to have settled in Armorica, which was then, like many other parts of the sickly Empire, become a mere desert; and that country, from this accident, has been since called Bretagne.
The Roman province thus weakened afforded opportunity and encouragement to the barbarians again to invade and ravage it.

Stilicho, indeed during the minority of Honorius, obtained some advantages over them, which procured a short intermission of their hostilities.

But as the Empire on the continent was now attacked on all sides, and staggered under the innumerable shocks which, it received, that minister ventured to recall the Roman forces from Britain, in order to sustain those parts which he judged of more importance and in greater danger.
[Sidenote: A.D.

411.] On the intelligence of this desertion, their barbarous enemies break in upon the Britons, and are no longer resisted.