For other uses of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, see Subprefecture and commune in Hauts-de-France, FranceLevine, Joshua (2017) Dunkirk, Harper Collins, New York The British transformed the Dunkirk evacuation into a moment of national pride and perseverance.
Critical to this process was the British Royal Air Force, which intercepted German bombers above the beach. After crossing the Allied planners had hoped to check the Germans at the Dyle Line—a defensive line that ran from After this flash in the pan the Allied armies in the north made no further effort to break out of the trap, while the belated relieving push from the south was so feeble as to be almost farcical.

With their country overrun and their backs to the sea, in a small strip crowded with refugees, the Belgians were driven to sue for an armistice that evening.

When the Belgians’ extended right flank, adjoining the British, gave way under pressure from Reichenau, these two divisions were rushed north again. France 2 est la chaîne de l’événement, de l'information, du sport et du divertissement. Two more divisions were allotted for Weygand’s renewed project of a Franco-British drive down into the German corridor. On May 10 German tanks crossed Luxembourg to the southeastern border of Belgium, and by the evening of May 12 the Germans were across the Franco-Belgian frontier and overlooking the Meuse River . Count Louis remained a loyal vassal of the French king upon the outbreak of the Upon the extinction of the Counts of Flanders with the death of Louis II in 1384, Flanders was acquired by the Dunkirk's port was used extensively during the war by British forces who brought in dock workers from, among other places, Egypt and China.From 1915, the city experienced severe bombardment, including from the largest gun in the world in 1917, the German 'In January, 1916, a spy scare took place in Dunkirk. Dunkirk (UK: /dʌnˈkɜːrk/, US: /ˈdʌnkɜːrk/;[2][3] French: Dunkerque [dœ̃kɛʁk] (listen); French Flemish: Duunkerke; Dutch: Duinkerke(n) [ˈdœynkɛrkə(n)] (listen)) is a commune in Nord, a French department in northern France. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Even before the German military forced Belgium’s surrender on May 28, 1940, the British government had been quietly preparing for an evacuation of its ground forces and other Allied troops under the code name Operation Dynamo.

Adm. From May 26 to June 4, over 338,000 British and French troops were safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Several weeks after the scheme had been introduced, the city's mayor, Patrice Vergriete, reported that there had been 50% increase in passenger numbers on some routes, and up to 85% on others.

British and other Allied troops wading through the water to board ships at Dunkirk, France, 1940.Between May 26 and June 4, 1940, some 340,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the French seaport of Dunkirk to England.Overview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940.German troops and French prisoners of war crossing the Meuse River after the Battle of Sedan, May 15, 1940.

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The remaining obstacles that could have blocked the advance were not manned in time.
The cease-fire was sounded early the next morning.

In September 2018, Dunkirk's public transit service introduced free public transport, thereby becoming the largest city in Europe to do so.