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"... whom they did play upon for his surrendering of Dunkirk."
Surrender of Dunkirk not the scene of tragedy and heroism from 300 years later, rather a sober transaction between Charles II and Louis XIV. When the Treaty of the Pyrenees ended the long Franco-Spanish in 1659, it happened to assign Dunkirk to England. Just one of those semi-random outcomes of a war. Charles sold Dunkirk to Louis a few years later, cleaning things up.
Henry Norwood, a loyal Royalist from the time the Civil War, was deputy governor of Dunkirk during the short period of English rule. And here our Sam has dinner with him, a little later, joking about the surrender of Dunkirk.
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"... whom they did play upon for his surrendering of Dunkirk."
Surrender of Dunkirk not the scene of tragedy and heroism from 300 years later, rather a sober transaction between Charles II and Louis XIV. When the Treaty of the Pyrenees ended the long Franco-Spanish in 1659, it happened to assign Dunkirk to England. Just one of those semi-random outcomes of a war. Charles sold Dunkirk to Louis a few years later, cleaning things up.
Henry Norwood, a loyal Royalist from the time the Civil War, was deputy governor of Dunkirk during the short period of English rule. And here our Sam has dinner with him, a little later, joking about the surrender of Dunkirk.