• Thumbnail for Sangatte
    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...
    8 KB (648 words) - 19:17, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Migrants around Calais
    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...
    49 KB (4,986 words) - 06:54, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Channel Tunnel
    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 (15,969 words) - 20:22, 12 January 2025
  • 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...
    1 KB (129 words) - 21:54, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juxtaposed controls
    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...
    59 KB (6,607 words) - 01:38, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pale of Calais
    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) - 22:03, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Channel Tunnel Act 1987
    1993, whereby the European Union agreement on border control known as the Sangatte Protocol was brought into jurisdiction by the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary...
    4 KB (305 words) - 22:36, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun
    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 (1,111 words) - 14:02, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hangar
    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 (1,778 words) - 20:45, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Calais Jungle
    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) - 09:15, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treaty of Brétigny
    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...
    8 KB (936 words) - 15:20, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Operation Undergo
    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) - 18:31, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for English Channel
    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...
    92 KB (8,807 words) - 11:42, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Louis Blériot
    flight. Latham arrived in Calais in early July, and set up his base at Sangatte in the semi-derelict buildings which had been constructed for an 1881 attempt...
    39 KB (5,323 words) - 20:15, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flyboard Air
    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...
    7 KB (768 words) - 01:12, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Calais (1558)
    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...
    9 KB (1,093 words) - 13:55, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lille-Europe station
    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...
    7 KB (504 words) - 20:00, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Côte d'Opale
    north: Merlimont Cucq Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Le Portel Audinghen Escalles Sangatte Marck Oye-Plage Grand-Fort-Philippe Gravelines Leffrinckoucke Zuydcoote...
    5 KB (432 words) - 17:08, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trane
    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...
    16 KB (1,370 words) - 16:23, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of aviation
    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...
    140 KB (15,625 words) - 03:12, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Anglo-French War (1557–1559)
    and Calais was besieged. On 1 January 1558, the French vanguard invested Sangatte and Fréthun Nielles, and the Army Corps reduced Fort Risban the next day...
    5 KB (438 words) - 21:15, 27 February 2024
  • were later employed as coastal guns, including at Battery Lindemann near Sangatte in France. Twelve 15 cm (5.9 in) L/55 C28 guns mounted in six twin turrets...
    40 KB (5,119 words) - 20:23, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cable layer
    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...
    41 KB (4,816 words) - 07:12, 8 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tunnel boring machine
    Canal contractor, used a similar machine to drill 1,669 m (5,476 ft) from Sangatte on the French side. However, despite this success, the cross-Channel tunnel...
    35 KB (4,024 words) - 18:42, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burns' Day Storm
    Head  United Kingdom 172 km/h Aberporth & Gwennap Head  France 164 km/h Sangatte  Belgium 168 km/h Beauvechain  Luxembourg 162 km/h Wincrange  Netherlands...
    11 KB (968 words) - 20:46, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tina Rupprecht
    2013-01-09. Retrieved 2016-01-21. "2.European Womens Youth Championships - Sangatte, France - October 26-30 2010". Amateur Boxing Results. 2013-09-08. Retrieved...
    13 KB (638 words) - 11:06, 15 December 2024
  • woman's purse and buys a rail ticket to Paris. From there, he goes to the Sangatte asylum seekers camp and with a new friend, Yusef, he crosses the English...
    6 KB (668 words) - 22:28, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sandgate, Kent
    also a Brisbane suburb called Shorncliffe, which is adjacent to Sandgate. Sangatte, France. Charles Daniel-Tyssen (1856–1940), cricketer and clergyman Hattie...
    4 KB (323 words) - 11:46, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gare du Nord
    Magenta station (RER E, 4 platforms). After the 'Additional Protocol to the Sangatte Protocol' was signed by France and the United Kingdom on 29 May 2000, juxtaposed...
    34 KB (3,363 words) - 09:12, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amphibious vehicle
    successfully crossed the channel and landed in France, although they ended up in Sangatte instead of Calais, their intended destination. Top Gear USA featured a...
    43 KB (5,463 words) - 20:42, 27 October 2024