Alderney Airport other destinations such as Brighton, Bournemouth, Cherbourg, Exeter, Plymouth and Jersey were abandoned over the years due to what Blue Islands for example claimed was 'lack of interest'. These routes had been operated on and off by Aurigny and Blue Islands but also Alderney Air Ferries, Air Sarnia and Air Camelot during the 1970s and 1980s. The number of air routes to the island is at its lowest since the Second World War except for a brief intermission during the 1967-8 period, when another airline (Glos Air, later to be Aurigny Air Services) was found to fill the void (see
Death to the French new boots, a shave, and his first ration of bread & salt in months. In "Sharpe's Escape" (2004), one of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels (which were partly inspired by "Death to the French"), a Rifleman named Matthew Dodd is separated from Sharpe's company in a skirmish during the Peninsular Campaign in 1810. Cornwell has acknowledged on his website that this character is intended to be the same individual depicted by Forester in "Death to the French". Death to the French Death to the French is a 1932 novel of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, written by C.