Dover Castle part 2

We took a land train around the castle grounds.  The driver was very friendly and helpful.  He rode us around in this little train.
                                          

The first place we visited was the underground tunnels. 
We could not take pictures in the tunnels.  What they had set up down in the tunnels was a war experience.  They gave us a feeling of what it is like to be in the tunnels during the war.  Then we got the story of the Dunkirk rescue.  That happened when the Germans had pushed the Allied forces back to Dunkirk.  They were stuck on the beaches with the Germans encroaching.  The English sent war ships to pick up the troops. 
“On the first day of the evacuation, only 7,669 men were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, a total of 338,226 soldiers had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. Many of the troops were able to embark from the harbour's protective mole onto 39 British destroyers and other large ships, while others had to wade out from the beaches, waiting for hours in the shoulder-deep water. Some were ferried from the beaches to the larger ships by what came to be known as the little ships of Dunkirk, a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, and lifeboats called into service for the emergency.”  Wikipedia
When you get out of the tunnels you can see how they are right in the white cliffs
                                                               
For about 10 years in the 1700’s during the War of Spanish Succession,the castle was used as a prison.  Some of the prisoners left their mark.

  This one says “Pierre loves breasts”  Boys will be boys even in prison.
  Some of the rooms are set up to show how they were.  This is the king’s bedchamber.
The tunnels that were called the midieval tunnels allowed pictures.
  notice the rope railings

 

notice the different wall materials                     
More pictures of the castle


                                                            
           see the catapult?