Legacy
Following the devastating battle of the Basque Roads, Napoleon ordered the reinforcement of the fortification of the area of the mouth of the Charente. In 1810, he ordered the re-furbishing of the Fort de la Rade on Ile d'Aix, as well as the construction of Fort Enet.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)