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The Battle of Margate (/ ˈ m ɑː ɡ eɪ t /), also known as the Battle of Cadzand (not to be confused with the 1337 Battle of Cadzand), was a naval battle that took place on 24–25 March 1387, during the Caroline War phase of the Hundred Years' War, between an English fleet and a Franco-Castilian-Flemish wine fleet.
March 11 – Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona. March 24–25 – Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate: The Kingdom of England is victorious over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet. June 2 – John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of ...
He landed in the sea near the North Foreland, and was rescued by the Margate lifeboat. His Spitfire (RAF serial number X4277) had burst into flames and he was badly burned. Hillary, the grandson of the founder of the lifeboat service Sir William Hillary, recovered from his ordeal and later wrote the book The Last Enemy. He was killed in a ...
The Battle of Sluys, 1340, in the Gruuthuse MS The Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in a manuscript of c. 1410, which mixes scenes with patterned and (as here) naturalistic backgrounds Illuminated page from c. 1480 manuscript of Book II depicting Richard II at the Peasants' Revolt and at the death of Wat Tyler, 1381
The papers and correspondence discovered are alleged to have further detailed a plot by the Nazis, titled Operation Willi and orchestrated in 1940, to persuade the Duke of Windsor to officially join sides with the Nazis and move him to Germany in a bid to bring the UK to peace negotiations.
"Misadventures at Margate: a legend of Jarvis's Jetty" "The Smuggler's Leap: a legend of Thanet" "Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie: a legend of Shropshire" "The Babes in the Woody; or, the Norfolk Tragedy" "The Dead Drummer: a legend of Salisbury Plain" "A Row in an Omnibus Box: a legend of the Haymarket"
In his 8th-century Ecclesiastical History, Bede records that the first chieftains among the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in England were said to have been Hengist and Horsa. He relates that Horsa was killed in battle against the Britons and was thereafter buried in East Kent, where at the time of writing a monument still stood to him.
The authorities of Schwyz refused to acknowledge a site of the battle outside of their territory and did not send any official representation to the monument's inauguration ceremony. [12] Since 1912, a yearly target shooting event has been held on the day of the battle in the vicinity of the monument, the Morgartenschiessen.