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  • These two men could have met and talked together in the course of the Crozon campaign.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • They built massive fortifications at Crozon in the west of Brittany, and Blavet on the south coast.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The Spanish fort El Léon at Crozon in a field sketch by English officer John Norreys 1594.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Crozon, Point des Espagnoles, 2006, photo © Judith Fischer

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • We are grateful to the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Kerdaniel for giving us a place to stay in Brittany, where we also visited the Marine Museum in Blavet/Port Louis, historic sites in Crozon, Quimper, Blavet-Port-Louis.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • In 1594, the Crozon peninsula was the scene of savage fighting.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • On the other side of the water, it is the same at Brouage, Crozon, Blavet, Honfleur, Quimper, Fontainebleau, the Marais district of Paris, even the basement of the Louvre.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The army records are reproduced in Robert Le Blant and René Baudry, Nouveaux documents sur Champlain et son époque Ottawa, 1967 1:17–19; for Crozon, see above, pp.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • After the Spanish defeat at Crozon, the Breton armies of the Catholic League were broken in other engagements.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • In the last war of religion, the high escarpments of the Crozon Peninsula were a key to the port of Brest and control of western Brittany.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

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