Dover Castle — "the key of England" — was the one strategic point Louis never captured. Hubert de Burgh held it through two determined French sieges, fighting off an attempt to collapse the gatehouse by mining. As long as Dover held, England could not be considered truly conquered. Its resistance was essential to the eventual recovery of the kingdom by the young Henry III's regents.
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