Strategically, this turning of the Cotentin corner was very important.
The English fleet sailed for the Cotentin, and landed a force which should have done great things.
Carentan is an unassuming little town in the midst of the butter farms of the Cotentin.
The Normans of the Cotentin were the purest men of their race.
By degrees the whirlwind lessened to a cloud—the cloud turned into a horseman—the horseman proved to be Hugo of Cotentin.
It became the capital of the pagus Constantinus (Cotentin), and in the middle ages was the seat of a viscount.
