Channel Tunnel The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns asserting that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences. These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. A 1907 film, "Tunnelling the English Channel" by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, depicts King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel. In 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference, the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, repeatedly brought up the idea of a Channel tunnel as a way of reassuring France about British willingness to defend
France and England in North America and historical fiction. The separate volumes, and the dates of first publication, are: A single-volume condensed version, edited by John Tebbel, was published in 1948 as "The Battle for North America". A two-volume unabridged version, with notes by David Levin, was published in 1983 by the Library of America as "France and England in North America. France and England in North America France and England in North America () is a multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America written by Francis Parkman between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain. It was