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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Nouvelle-Église, Offekerque, Oye-Plage, Peuplingues, Pihen-lès-Guînes, Sangatte, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Tricat, and Vieille-Église. Calais was a prize of...
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    been administered by the French Red Cross at Sangatte, but rapidly became overcrowded. After the Sangatte facility was closed in November 2002 by Nicolas...
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    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...
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    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...
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    batteries of cross-channel guns, Batterie Lindemann (four 406 mm guns at Sangatte), Batterie Wissant (150 mm guns near Wissant), Batterie Todt (four 380...
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