Louis was paid 10,000 marks to pledge never to invade England again, although he unsuccessfully tried to take Dover Castle a second time, in May 1217. The Frenchman died in 1226, also of dysentery.

Few places can fling you back and forth across our nation’s history like Dover Castle. 10am? We’re in 1942, wandering wide-eyed through a WWII hospital buried deep in the White Cliffs, before ...

More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an “astonishing discovery,” including graffiti of what could depict the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ...