Ambleteuse is one of the candidates for the harbour that Julius Caesar used to set out from for his invasion of Britain in 54 BC, though Boulogne-sur-Mer is the more usually accepted site.
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Henry VIII of England had two forts built here in 1546 to maintain a show of power towards the French kings.
In 1776, he set up a commission to choose between Cherbourg, Ambleteuse or Boulogne as France's main strategic port for defence of the English Channel - this was headed by Suffren and also including Dumouriez (later governor of Cherbourg) and La Bretonnière.
Its first raid came on the night of 27/28 July 1941 when a party of 16 men carried out a landing near Ambleteuse, France.