2-756-510 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

View of Dover, 1747, (1944). The town of Dover on the south coast of Kent, with the castle and cliffs in the distance. Dover was the site of the Battle of Sandwich, also called the Battle of Dover, which took place on 24 August 1217 as part of the First Barons' War. The naval Battle of Goodwin Sands was fought off the coast on 19 May 1652. From "Battlefields in Britain', by C. V. Wedgwood. [Collins, London, 1944]