Alone by Michael Korda

Author:Michael Korda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2017-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Boulogne is a cramped and narrow port, overstuffed with history. Its substantial walls were built in medieval times to protect it from the English, and it contains the tallest column in France to mark the place where Napoleon distributed eagles to the 200,000-man “Army of England,” which was camped in the hills around here in 1803 and 1804 waiting to embark in wooden barges for the invasion of England that never took place. The ground rises sharply beyond the harbor and the roads to the “old walled town—known as the Haute Ville or ‘the Citadel’—are steep.” General Lanquetot took over the Citadel for his headquarters, to organize the defense of the city, apparently unaware that the Irish and the Welsh Guards were attempting to hold the high ground around it, or that his own division had been so badly shot up and scattered by German tanks and dive-bombers on its way to Boulogne that most of it would never arrive.

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