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    Sangatte (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃ɡat]; West Flemish: Zandgat) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department on the northern coast of France on the English...
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    while Lavalley used a similar machine to drill 1,669 m (5,476 ft) from Sangatte on the French side. However, the cross-Channel tunnel project was abandoned...
    155 KB (15,917 words) - 17:41, 14 August 2024
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    for them while their claim is being processed. Apart from the camp in Sangatte (closed 2002) and the one in Grande-Synthe during the mayoral administration...
    50 KB (5,042 words) - 20:31, 13 June 2024
  • Château de Sangatte was a castle in Sangatte, Pas-de-Calais, France. Baldwin II, Count of Guînes began construction of a castle at Sangatte in 1190 on...
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    were refused entry to the UK at the juxtaposed controls. In 1991, the Sangatte Protocol was signed between France and the UK, an agreement that provided...
    58 KB (6,569 words) - 17:22, 31 July 2024
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    1993, whereby the European Union agreement on border control known as the Sangatte Protocol was brought into jurisdiction by the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary...
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    first training shots, the Polish guns were moved to France and sited near Sangatte and renamed Batterie Lindemann in honour of the fallen captain of the battleship...
    11 KB (1,113 words) - 12:05, 14 August 2024
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    Bleriot crash-landed on a northern French farm in Les Baraques (between Sangatte and Calais) and rolled his monoplane into the farmer's cattle pen. Bleriot...
    16 KB (1,776 words) - 03:53, 19 August 2024
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    Nouvelle-Église, Offekerque, Oye-Plage, Peuplingues, Pihen-lès-Guînes, Sangatte, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Tricat, and Vieille-Église. Calais was a prize of...
    13 KB (1,155 words) - 09:13, 16 August 2024
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    been administered by the French Red Cross at Sangatte, but rapidly became overcrowded. After the Sangatte facility was closed in November 2002 by Nicolas...
    100 KB (8,978 words) - 20:53, 22 August 2024
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    batteries of cross-channel guns, Batterie Lindemann (four 406 mm guns at Sangatte), Batterie Wissant (150 mm guns near Wissant), Batterie Todt (four 380...
    27 KB (3,372 words) - 16:58, 23 February 2024
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    Nîmes, Montpellier and Perpignan. After the 'Additional Protocol to the Sangatte Protocol' was signed by France and the United Kingdom on 29 May 2000, juxtaposed...
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    of 177 km/h (110 mph) during the 20-minute flight. The trip started at Sangatte in the Pas-de-Calais department in France and concluded at St Margaret's...
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    device on 4 August 2019, covering the 35-kilometre (22 mi) journey from Sangatte in northern France to St Margaret's Bay in Kent, UK, in 22 minutes, with...
    128 KB (14,995 words) - 10:47, 21 August 2024
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    north: Merlimont Cucq Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Le Portel Audinghen Escalles Sangatte Marck Oye-Plage Grand-Fort-Philippe Gravelines Leffrinckoucke Zuydcoote...
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    across the Channel in September laid from St. Margaret's Bay, England to Sangatte, France (commonly referred to as the Dover to Calais cable) Thomas Russell...
    91 KB (8,818 words) - 08:27, 26 August 2024
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    countship of Gauré, Angoumois, Rouergue, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Ponthieu, Calais, Sangatte, Ham and the countship of Guînes. The king of England was to hold these...
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    large-capacity (2600 kW to 14,000 kW) chillers were installed—two located in Sangatte, France, and two at Shakespeare Cliff, UK. The energy-efficient chillers...
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    rather than their rival. On 1 January 1558, the French vanguard invested Sangatte, Fréthun and Nielles, and the Army Corps reduced Fort Risban the next day...
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    Foreland and Sangatte cable by Submarine Telegraph Company in 1851. Red Rover in 1851, a steam tug, worked on the South Foreland and Sangatte replacement...
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