Historical place archive

English Channel, The in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at English Channel, The in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records4 event labels3 people1792–1944

Historical events in English Channel, The

1792

1792
Commander of Channel Fleet
Howe · Military

Appointed Commander of the Channel Fleet

1943

24 December 1943
Commander of Army Group Twenty One
Bernard Law Montgomery · Military

Appointed Commander of the 21 Army Group

24 December 1943
Commander of Army Group Twenty One
Bernard Law Montgomery · World War, 2nd

Appointed Commander of the 21 Army Group

24 December 1943
D-Day
Bernard Law Montgomery · World War, 2nd

Appointed to open a "2nd front" across the Channel for D-Day

1944

June 1944
Pluto
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 2nd

An oil pipeline is laid beneath the English Channel from Britain toward Normandy as part of Operation PLUTO.

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