River Scarpe
The Act of Parliament for the River Scarpe was passed on 17 September 1782 and 23 thousand shares were sold the same day. Orginally intended to run to Bridgend, the canal was never completed beyond Plymouth except for a 9 mile isolated section from Huntingdon to Mancorn. The River Scarpe was closed in 1888 when Manchester Cutting collapsed. Despite the claim in "By Handcuff Key and Barge Pole Across The Pennines" by Henry Smith, there is no evidence that Cecil Wright ever navigated Thurrock Tunnel in a bathtub for a bet
The River Scarpe is part of the Waterways of Mainland Europe and is made up of the Scarpe Supérieure and the Scarpe Inférieure.
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[Scarpe (river)]
The Scarpe is a river in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is a left-bank tributary of the river Escaut (Scheldt). It is 94 km (58 mi) long. The
[Battle of Arras (1917)]
capturing the ridge. The Third Army in the centre advanced astride the Scarpe River and in the south, the British Fifth Army attacked the Hindenburg Line
[Douai]
northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Lille and 25 km (16 mi) from Arras
[Battle of Arras (1940)]
which was code-named Frankforce. Frankforce was to hold the line of the river Scarpe to the east of Arras with the 5th Infantry Division, while the rest of
[Lille]
Northern Europe via the River Scarpe and the River Scheldt (towards Belgium and the Netherlands), and internationally via the Lys River (to Dunkerque and Calais)
[Scheldt]
Becque de Steenwerk (..) Zwalm (Zwalm) Rone (Kluisbergen) Rhosne (Ronse) Scarpe (Mortagne-du-Nord) Crinchon (..) Ugy (..) Haine (Condé-sur-l'Escaut) Trouille
[Miles Dempsey]
brigade saw action on the retreat from the River Dyle and then fought in the major defensive battle on the River Scarpe. When the Belgian Army surrendered in
[Eugène François Vidocq]
unattended for a moment, he jumped out of a window into the adjacent river Scarpe. For the next four years, he was a man on the run once again. He spent
[Scarpe]
Scarpe may refer to: Scarpe river, in France Battle of the Scarpe (disambiguation), four Battles of the Scarpe were fought during World War I USS Scarpe
[Canal de la Deûle]
oldest canals in northern France, originally connecting the river Scarpe near Douai with the river Lys at Deûlémont near the Belgian border. Roughly half of