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Friday, 10 September 2004 Britain's Last Mainland Invasion
CREDIT: © Tony Richards/LakelandCAM.co.uk WHERE: Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. WHAT: the last invasion of mainland Britain. MAP: Fishguard-Haverfordwest. Thumbnail pops-up larger image. ![]() ![]() In late February 1797, a French force under a septuagenarian Irish-American commander named Colonel William Tate, landed near the village of Llanwnda in Fishguard Bay. Although the attack collapsed in comic circumstances within two days, it is said to be the last mainland invasion of Britain. The French forces plundered the area around Fishguard, and after their commander surrendered he was led away south along byways to Haverfordwest, avoiding the wrath of the townsfolk in the north. In 1066 a Norman of Viking descent was commander in chief of the French forces when a more successful invasion was mounted, and later celebrated by the famous Bayeux [1][2] Tapestry. In 1997, on the two hundredth anniversary of the Pembroke invasion, the Fishguard [1][2][3] Tapestry [images in the Photograph Album section on the WestWales.co.uk web site] was created as part of the continuing tradition of a Franco-British love-hate relationship that has been going on for the past millennium. |
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