Strait of Dover

He brought the other sea kings under his control, and established quite a maritime empire.

He made more and more distant excursions, and at last, In order to avenge himself upon the Franks for their interposition in behalf of his enemy at home, he passed through the Straits of Dover and thence down the English Channel to the mouth of the Seine.

He ascended this river to Rouen, and there landed, spreading throughout the country, the utmost terror and dismay.

From Rouen he marched to Paris, finding no force able to resist him on his way, or to defend the capital,

And secondly, my grandparents' house was flooded in Tilbury.

And when you look at the sea level rise associated with that, it was a storm surge in the North Sea with a very strong northerly wind just piling water up into the Straits of Dover at a time when it was high tide.

And so the water just spilled over.

That kind of thing keeps happening.

Out to Cuba, goes by freighter as they think it's too risky to fly him over Western airspace.

And when he takes this freighter, he goes through the Straits of Dover, the English Channel.

And on the deck, he looks for his old prep school at Eastbourne, where he was a child.

But he and Rafina can't make it out.

The balloon itself was laden with all sorts of things, ballast, supplies, safety equipment, scientific instruments, a hand-operated propeller, two large silk oars designed to row through the air and aid in steering the balloon.

The journey wasn't going to be as long as some of Blanchard's previous flights, the Strait of Dover, the channel's narrowest point.

is only a little over 30 kilometers, but all the same, flying over open water presented all new hazards.

No one had ever successfully made a flight like this before.

omar says quote elizabeth expressed great wrath against her ministers for hurrying on the execution she fired and imprisoned davidson the secretary of state who had sent off mary's death warrant and pretended that she had not wished to pardon her perhaps her anger was real but no one saved the unfortunate davidson took it very seriously the people felt nothing but satisfaction and relief and rejoiced that there was no longer a catholic heiress to trouble the realm the king of scots contented himself with a formal protest and the guises in france were too busy in their own civil wars with king henry the third and the huguenots to think of assailing england only philip of spain who accepted in sober earnest the legacy of her rights which mary had left him took up the task of revenge and he had already so many causes to hate elizabeth that he did not need this additional provocation to spur him on to attack her he had already begun to prepare a great naval expedition against england all through the spring and summer of 1587 the ports of spain portugal naples and sicily all under habsburg spanish control were busy in manning and equipping every warship that the king could get together.

The Duke of Parma, the Spanish viceroy in the Netherlands, was also directed to draw off every man that he could spare from the Dutch war and to be ready to lead them across the channel the moment that the king's fleet should have secured the Straits of Dover." So King Philip of Spain has decided, right, enough is enough.

the english have attacked spain literally our ports in spain in cadiz and things um they've attacked the new world of stolen treasure ships as they were crossing the atlantic that drake that dastardly drake they've they've helped out our enemies in the netherlands including with armies um and now they've executed mary queen of scots um okay i'm going i am the emperor of spain I am now going to put together a massive army, a massive navy, and I'm going to invade England.

That's what he wanted to do.

Yet were some of the original known names retained.

Eft soon his friend the Count de Plessis with the French nobles and men at arms crossed the narrow seas which be marvelous like to the Strait of Dover and aided by English knights conquered the country there in which dwelt the same manner of folk as inhabited South England.

The Count and his French called it La Nouvelle France and built castles and seized cities in like fashion as had been done by the English here.

Both the Count who now became King Louis I and Henry I of South England treated the conquered peoples with gentleness and wisdom establishing trade manufacturers mining and agriculture in ways heretofore unknown among them.