taque

They said, 'Sir, ye cannot pass the river but at the bridge of Abbeville, for the flood is come in at Blanche-taque': then he returned and lodged at Abbeville.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

The passage is hard in the bottom with white stones, so that all your carriage may go surely; therefore the passage is called Blanche-taque.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

And when he was at Amiens he had ordained a great baron of Normandy, called sir Godemar du Fay, to go and keep the passage of Blanche-taque, where the Englishmen must pass or else in none other place.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Seine at Poissy on the 16th, and the Somme at Blanche-taque on the 24th.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Edward arrived at Poissy on 12th August: Philip of Valois left Paris on the 14th: the English crossed the Seine at Poissy on the 16th, and the Somme at Blanche-taque on the 24th.

The Campaign of Crecy. Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town 1909

The passage is hard in the bottom with white stones, so that all your carriage may go surely; therefore the passage is called Blanche-taque.

The Campaign of Crecy. How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois 1909

And when he was at Amiens he had ordained a great baron of Normandy, called sir Godemar du Fay, to go and keep the passage of Blanche-taque, where the Englishmen must pass or else in none other place.

The Campaign of Crecy. Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque between the King of England and Sir Godemar Du Fay 1909

They said, ‘Sir, ye cannot pass the river but at the bridge of Abbeville, for the flood is come in at Blanche-taque’: then he returned and lodged at Abbeville.

The Campaign of Crecy. Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque between the King of England and Sir Godemar Du Fay 1909

When affairs had become thus critical, local guides revealed to the English a way across the estuary, where a white band of chalk, called the _Blanche taque_, cropping out of the sandy river bed, forms a hard, practicable ford from one bank of the river to the other.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

Edward arrived at Poissy On 12th August: Philip of Valois left Paris on the 14th: the English crossed the Seine at Poissy on the 16th and the Somme at Blanche-taque on the 24th.

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