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National Geographic : 1920 Aug
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Photograph byE.F.Guiton MONT ORGUEIL, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE INSULAR CASTLES, DATES FROM THE TIME OF THE EARLY PLANTAGENETS: JERSEY At the time of the establishment of these strongholds, the Channel Islands were divided into great fiefs, both religious and secular, and the seigneurs of the manors, both Norman abbots and Norman knights, were bound by the double service of executing the king's justice and providing armed retainers to defend their lands against the king's enemies. The highest point of this castle is300 feet above the sea.
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