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Did you know ...

• the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
• the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?
• the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the "English Channel" because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé?
• the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?
• a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay, crossing the English Channel, in August 1912?
• British comedian Tim FitzHigham was the first man to cross the English Channel in a bathtub?
• ÃŽle Vierge, in the southwestern corner of the English Channel, has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
• Phil Packer (pictured), who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons?
• Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
• William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (pictured)?