Aurigny Treasury and Resources announced that the sale would not go ahead. Blue Islands' withdrawal from Alderney on 9 May 2011 left Aurigny with a monopoly on that island for the first time in over a decade. However, it was criticised later that year for cutting the number of flights to Southampton, not lowering prices and reducing services to twice daily over that winter; Malcolm Hart later reaffirmed its commitment to the route and admitted that encouraging passengers to fly via Guernsey had been 'the biggest mistake in Aurigny's recent history'. At the end of 2011, Aurigny rolled out the first
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.