The threatened Franco-Imperial invasion of 1539 spurred the largest Thames estuary muster since the French wars of the 1490s. Gravesend and Tilbury opposite were both garrisoned; chains were stretched across the Thames and artillery positioned to deny the river to enemy shipping.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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