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The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent, England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France. The Strait of Dover was strategically important because it is the narrowest part of the English channel. Batteries on both sides attacked shipping as well as bombarding the coastal towns and military ...
Pistol dueling was a competitive sport developed around 1900 [1] which involved opponents shooting at each other using dueling pistols adapted to fire wax bullets.The sport was briefly popular among some members of the metropolitan upper classes in the US, UK and France. [2]
The batteries to the east and west of Dover were each designated as a fortress and each fortress had an underground plotting room from where the guns could be controlled. At Hougham. there are No.1, No.2 and No.3 Gun emplacements. [3] The North Downs Way (long-distance path) leads over Round Down (on the Dover Cliffs) between Folkestone and ...
The Duel (also known as The Point of Honor: A Military Tale) by Joseph Conrad: Two officers of Napoleon's army fight a number of duels over many years. The story was transferred to the screen in 1977 by Ridley Scott as The Duellists. The Duel, a philosophic novella by Anton Chekhov; War and Peace: Pierre and Dolokhov duel.
French cased duelling pistols by Nicolas Noël Boutet.Single shot, flintlock, rifled, .58 caliber, blued steel, Versailles, 1794–1797. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary.
The Lobourg strait, the deepest part the strait, runs its 6 km (4 mi)wide slash on a NNE–SSW axis. Nearer to the French coast than to the English, it borders the Varne sandbank (shoals) where it plunges to 68 m (223 ft) and further south, the Ridge bank (shoals) (French name " Colbart " [ 10 ] ) with a maximum depth of 62 m (203 ft).
The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine warship with the loss of all but one of her crew. [4] [2] HMT Cosmos Royal Navy: The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine destroyer. Three of her crew survived. [4] [2] HMT James Pond Royal Navy
"Duelling in old New Orleans" (1950) Dueling was a common practice in the Southern United States from the 17th century until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Although the duel largely disappeared in the early nineteenth century in the North, it remained a common practice in the South (as well as the West) until the battlefield experience of the American Civil War changed public ...