Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14760120296)

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Title: Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France

Year: 1847 (1840s)

Authors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867

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Publisher: London : Smith, Elder and Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of thepicturesque. The scene of repose in the Upper Harbour, and thepale moon-light, relieving the old pier,—the black looking telegraph,with its tall slender limbs, reared high above the sleeping waters, are sub-jects for those who can feel them, and such feelings are more likely tobe destroyed by attempts at description, than increased or improved.We therefore leave others to pronounce on defects we have not beenable to detect, and on beauties to which we could not do justice. crously so ; all his instructions being thwarted by his general, the Marshal de Biez. Themarshal was ordered to build a fort to contain five thousand men and provisions, to theend that all English ships attempting to enter the harbour should be sunk. He built the fortin the wrong place, and ships could enter and clear out untouched. The bastions weremade too small to permit of cannon being mounted, and the whole fort would not containfive hundred men. It was demolished, another commenced, but never finished.

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9 A 91 CALAIS. Calais is situated in the department of the Straits of Calais, and is themost important sea-port on the north coast of France. It was ancientlycalled Calesium, Calasium, and Caletium, and reached no higher thana village till the year 1222, when Philip of France, the son of PhilipAugustus and Agnes de Meranie, having married the Countess of Ma-hault, took the title of Earl of Boulogne, inclosing Calais with wallsand conferring upon it a charter of incorporation. Its inhabitantsincreased, and in the year 1347, it was strongly fortified, when it wasbesieged by Edward III. Edward, upon the death of Charles le Bel,who died without issue, claimed the succession to the crown of France,as being the nephew and nearest relation of the deceased king. TheFrench preferred the pretensions of Philip de Valois, and Edwarddetermined to enforce his claims at the head of an army. He enteredinto alliances with the emperor and several of the princes of Germany,and began a war more disastrou

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