District Of Columbia
The French held out and even tried it is said to build a boat secretly and let it down the Castle walls into the sea to try to get help from Normandy The carrying out of this plan was foiled by an islander who had been pressed into an unwilling service He shot an arrow with a letter on it over the side of the Castle betraying the plot and the boat was captured The besieged then seeing all hope was gone gave in and the British flag was again run up on the Castle keep Mont Orgueil had be |
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