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Les Casquets or (The) Casquets is a group of rocks eight miles (13 km) northwest of Alderney in the Channel Islands; they are administered by the Bailiwick of Guernsey.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Alderney, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anders Lassen, Bailiwick of Guernsey, BBC News, Brest, France, Burhou, C. S. Forester, Casquets lighthouses, Channel Islands, Court-martial, English Channel, Folk etymology, Guernsey, Gus March-Phillipps, Horatio Hornblower, Hornblower and the Hotspur, Islet, Knot (unit), Michael Joseph (publisher), No. 62 Commando, Ortac, Pen and Sword Books, Prisoner of war, Quercus (publisher), Saint Anne, Alderney, Sandstone, SS Stella (1890), Stroud, Tanker (ship), The History Press, The Man Who Laughs, The New York Times, Tide, Victor Hugo.

  2. 1724 establishments in Great Britain
  3. Geography of Alderney
  4. Horatio Hornblower
  5. Uninhabited islands of the Bailiwick of Guernsey
  6. Victor Hugo

Alderney

Alderney (Aurigny; Auregnais: Aoeur'gny) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic.

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Anders Lassen

Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen, (22 September 1920 – 9 April 1945) was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War.

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Bailiwick of Guernsey

The Bailiwick of Guernsey (Bailliage de Guernesey; Guernésiais: Bailliage dé Guernési) is a self-governing British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France, comprising several of the Channel Islands.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Brest, France

Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.

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Burhou

Burhou (pronounced ber-ROO) is a small island about northwest of Alderney that is part of the Channel Islands. Les Casquets and Burhou are Geography of Alderney and uninhabited islands of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

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C. S. Forester

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.

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Casquets lighthouses

Casquets Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the rocky Les Casquets, Alderney, Channel Islands.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Guernsey

Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.

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Gus March-Phillipps

Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps, (1908 – 12 September 1942; sometimes spelled "March-Phillips") was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF), one of the forerunners of the Special Air Service (SAS).

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Horatio Hornblower

Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester.

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Hornblower and the Hotspur

Hornblower and the Hotspur (published 1962) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester.

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Islet

An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.

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Knot (unit)

The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn.

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Michael Joseph (publisher)

Michael Joseph (26 September 1897 – 15 March 1958) was a British publisher and writer.

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No. 62 Commando

No.

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Ortac

Ortac is a small uninhabited islet about west of the coast of Alderney near to the islet of Burhou. Les Casquets and Ortac are Geography of Alderney and uninhabited islands of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

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Pen and Sword Books

Pen and Sword Books, also stylised as Pen & Sword, is a British publisher which specialises in printing and distributing books in both hardback and softback on military history, militaria and other niche subjects, primarily focused on the United Kingdom.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Quercus (publisher)

Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014.

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Saint Anne, Alderney

Saint Anne is the main town of Alderney in the Channel Islands. Les Casquets and Saint Anne, Alderney are Geography of Alderney.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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SS Stella (1890)

Stella was a passenger ferry in service with the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). Les Casquets and sS Stella (1890) are Shipwrecks in the English Channel.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Tanker (ship)

A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title By Order of the King from its subtitle in French) is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.

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See also

1724 establishments in Great Britain

Geography of Alderney

Horatio Hornblower

Uninhabited islands of the Bailiwick of Guernsey

Victor Hugo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Casquets

Also known as Casquets, Le Casquets, The Casquets.