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The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War. The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent , England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France .
Hougham Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 between Dover and Folkestone in southeast England. It is on the cliff-edge between Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff . The battery was equipped with three 8-inch (203 mm) Mark VIII naval guns . [ 1 ]
A code duello is a set of rules for a one-on-one combat, or duel.Codes duello regulate dueling and thus help prevent vendettas between families and other social factions. . They ensure that non-violent means of reaching agreement are exhausted and that harm is reduced, both by limiting the terms of engagement and by providing medical c
The 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Primarily serving as coastal artillery defending the Port of Dover and other harbours in South-East England, the unit's successors also served in the heavy artillery role on the Western Front during World War I and as anti-aircraft artillery during the Blitz and later in the North ...
It presents a bold cliff to the sea, and commands views over the Strait of Dover. It is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Dover and 15 miles south of North Foreland . It includes the closest point on the Island of Britain to the European mainland at a distance of 20.6 miles (33.2 km).
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
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845; John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846 [41] Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852 [42] Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary.
My info is that Boche Buster (the rail carriage originally used in WWI to carry a 14 inch Mk III gun) carried an 18 inch howitzer in WWII, not a 13.5 inch gun, and that this did not have the range to fire across the Channel. It was used to cover possible invasion routes on the Kent coast - its job was to lob big shells relatively short distances.