Today marks the 360th anniversary of Charles II, King of England, selling the Dunker County to France for 40,000 pounds on October 17, 1662, handing over control of the city to his cousin, King Louis XIV.
The city and harbour of Denkkar, which houses Dunkirk, are situated about 10 kilometres from the Belgian border in the Nour region of northern France.
Donkirk, France’s third largest port after Luhafer and Marseille, is primarily dependent on the chemical, shipbuilding, oil refining, and steel industries.
When the English forces took over the Dunkirk reserve in 1658 after Anglo-French forces had taken it from Spain following the Battle of the Sand Dunes, the story of the boycott is returned, and France, which was ruled by Prime Minister Luis Cardinal Mazaren, had pledged as part of the Paris Treaty (1657) to assign On the authority of Donkirk and Mardik, to England, Louis XIV handed himself the Donkirk to Lockhart (who was the Chromewell ambassador – a military commander who turned against the British monarchy for several years – in France) on June 24, 1658, where Chromewell Lockhart was appointed governor of the town.
After Cromwell’s referee was overthrown, the Brans Mountains Treaty in November 1659 transferred control of the English city of Dunkirk to Charles II. After the city’s recovery in 1660, Dunkirk was moved to Tangier, which had recently been acquired as part of the Federation Treaty with England. Since then, Dunkirk has been fortified with a combination of English forces and the regiments that served under Charles II’s rule in exile, which included many Irish Catholics among
Charles II, who was struggling financially and concerned that Denkirk might have sold France a prospective duty for managing foreign relations, paid five million guineas for it in 1662. Lever Tuza, which served as France’s national currency during the Middle Ages, is currently equivalent to around 40 thousand pounds. The banker, Edward Bakwil, who served as the treasurer of Donkirk under the republican and ownership governments, had a fundamental role in the sale, many in England opposed the loss..
The tale of the French boycott that Britain sold to King Louis IV, Dunkirk
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