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Clearing the Channel Coast was a World War II task undertaken by the First Canadian Army in August 1944, following the Allied Operation Overlord and the victory, break-out and pursuit from Normandy. The Canadian army advanced from Normandy to the Scheldt river in Belgium. En route, they were to capture the Channel ports needed to supply the ...
Saint-Malo (UK: / s æ̃ ˈ m ɑː l oʊ /, [3] US: / ˌ s æ̃ m ə ˈ l oʊ /, [4] [5] French: [sɛ̃ malo] ⓘ; Gallo: Saent-Malô; Breton: Sant-Maloù) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. The walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas ...
The Channel Ports are seaports in southern England and northern France, which allow for short crossings of the English Channel. There is no formal definition, but there is a general understanding of the term. Some ferry companies divide their routes into "short" and "long" crossings. The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent ...
The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name) was the prolonged naval conflict between German submarines and the Allied navies in Atlantic waters—the seas around the British Isles, the North Sea and the coast of France.
Battle of Boulogne. The Battle of Boulogne in 1940 was the defence of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by French, British and Belgian troops in the Battle of France during the Second World War. The battle was fought at the same time as the Siege of Calais, just before Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from ...
Calais is a major port for ferries between France and England, and since 1994, the Channel Tunnel has linked nearby Coquelles to Folkestone by rail. Because of its position, Calais has been a major port and an important centre for transport and trading with England since the Middle Ages .
German infantry on the battlefield, 7 August 1914. The Western Front was the place where the most powerful military forces in Europe, the German and French armies, met and where the First World War was decided. [ 14 ] At the outbreak of the war, the German Army, with seven field armies in the west and one in the east, executed a modified ...
Dover Strait. The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait (French: Pas de Calais [pɑ d (ə) kalɛ], "Street of Calais "; Dutch: Nauw van Calais [ˈnʌu vɑŋ kaːˈlɛː] or, less used, Straat van Dover), historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and ...