The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel, thus protecting the city, then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault.
Six hundred troops, including about 150 Templars, were ferried to Ruad in preparation for a seaborne assault on the city.
For this great seaborne assault which the free world had toiled so hard to mount, only about three thousand men were leading the attack.
There are numerous islands scattered around the map and each one's base can be captured either by paratroopers or seaborne assault.
The seaborne assault was Operation Neptune.
He was involved in the seaborne assault on Fenit and spent the remainder of the war serving in the appointment of local intelligence officer.
The parachute operation on the flanks, even more dependent on the weather than the seaborne assault, was cancelled.
The Germans were largely deployed in strongpoints along the coast-the German strategy was based on defeating any seaborne assault at the water line.
The initial seaborne assault on the Normandy coast broke with previous Allied practice, in that it was made in daylight.
The bad guys had to be a bit nervous after that first attempt to take the freighter back by seaborne assault.