BATTLE OF DUNKIRK

WHEN: May 26-June 4 1940
WHERE: Dunkirk, France
WHO: Great Britain, France, and Belgium vs. Nazi Germany

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• Belgium surrenders
• 31-41,000 dead or wounded
• Evacuation across English Channel

ENGLAND WINS!

Hitler's invasion of the Low Countries and Northern France

"No purely military study of the major aspects of the war could do justice to the skill and the heroism of the evacuation of Dunkirk"- George Fielding Eliot

SOURCES

• www.wikipedia.org
• bbc.co.uk
• britannica.com