Posted on 11/07/2021 9:12:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
:^) It would be difficult to find a port on the east coast of France. ;^) The other coast of France is on the Med.
I couldn’t find a clip, soooo:
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The actual chateaux seems to be some miles from the sea so I figured the port was along an old river course. There are currently two nearby waterways that may be navigable and one may be descended from the one that was associated with the old port.
I’m sure there has been silting (my glasses need cleaning, my typing looks fuzzy) but when the sealevels were higher, the estuaries were deeper and broader and reached further inland. Rivers and even what look like small streams today worked pretty well for the smaller ships of the time.
The lack of deepwater harbors in western Europe was a problem for the Allies during WWII after DDay, for example.
I wonder if mapping the medieval shoreline and the extents of estuaries on the eastern seaboard of N America would be a worthwhile first step for looking for ProColumbian Scandinavian landfalls, and for earlier Roman Warming Period Celtic landfalls, and for the much much earlier Red Paint maritime culture.
Yeah, they’d have to sail across dry land to reach those eastern ports. Oh, that screeching sound the hull would make as it slid along would be annoying.
The same thing happened in West Carolina, and again in East Dakota.
I am glad someone read that and let me know
Thank you.
I didn’t read about the Vendee until about 5 years ago.
I am 60 years old and a bit of a history buff.
Shows you how well the murder of the Vendee has been concealed.
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