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Along the slight curve of the coast might be seen, beyond Ambleteuse and Wimereux, the vast extent of the French flotilla, ranged in three divisions, before the great lunette of the central camp, and hills jotted with tents thick as limpets on a rock.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Ambleteuse road, and came at hand-gallop towards him.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Napoleon planned to invade England from four new French harbors (Ambleteuse, Wimereux, Boulogne, and Étaples), but the resumption of war with Austria in Aug. 1805 forced Napoleon to concentrate his efforts on the Continent.
2. Foreign Affairs 2001
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We are dry-docked about five miles out, not far from Ambleteuse.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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On the next day the King went on horseback to visit the port of Ambleteuse; thence he set out for Calais, following the line of the coast, while the ladies took the same course more rapidly.
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The camp of the right wing, situated upon the cliff, was divided into streets, each of which bore the name of some distinguished general; and this cliff bristled with batteries from Cologne to Ambleteuse, a distance of more than two leagues.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Going to France in 608, he was drowned near the harbor of Ambleteuse, between Calais and Bologne, and is named in the English and Gallican Martyrologies.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Valna's church, Norway, and St. Peter's, Ambleteuse, there are such marks, said to be horses 'hoofprints.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Land now -- a grey-white line that is the sand dunes at Ambleteuse, north of Boulogne.
Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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To transport them Napoleon had collected in the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, Ambleteuse, Vimereux, Boulogne and
The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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