Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forces of the enemy below, that their progress was arrested, and on coming to closer conflict, they were repulsed and driven back to their ships. The loss of the French in these expe- ditions amounted to not less than a thousand men; and it is said that the King of France was so bitterly disappointed at the failure, that he forbade the subject being ever mentioned again in his presence. Sark for a time still remained in the occupation of the French. The recovery of this island was accomplished under circumstances so curious and interesting, as perhaps to have no historical parallel. Sir Walter Raleigh, who was for some time governor of Jersey, gives a full account of it. He says, this island, surprised by the French, could never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed as many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible, that it might be ‘Mield against the Grand Turk himself.” In the Edinburgh Journal, No. 136, New Series, the subject is treated in a familiar style, and we shall make such extracts from the paper in which the event is noticed, as may convey a lively account of the remarkable recapture of this island. “ A single ship anchored before Sark, having all the appearance of a merchant vessel, which D