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"the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we assumed."
- Thomas Jefferson




In the 2000 census, 24.5 million Americans reported English ancestry, 8.7% of the total U.S. population.

In 1980, 23,748,772 Americans claimed wholly English ancestry and another 25,849,263 claimed English along with another ethnic ancestry.


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What every Englishman needs to read:

1. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
- Latin text:
http://www.thelatinlibrary....

- English translation (Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation)
http://www.fordham.edu/hals...

2. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
http://omacl.org/Anglo/part...

3. Vita Alfredi regis Angul Saxonum
- Latin text:
http://www.thelatinlibrary....

- English translation (The Life of King Alfred)
http://omacl.org/KingAlfred...

4. De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
http://www.kmatthews.org.uk...

Old English Chronicles
http://www.archive.org/stre...