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The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War. Following the German invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May, French and British forces advanced into Belgium. The German campaign plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) had evolved into a decoy operation in the Netherlands and Belgium, with the main ...
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir ( Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral [3] [a] French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy neutral ...
Around 20:00 the battle was over. Aftermath. With the trip around Cape Griz Nez, another Batavian fleet, of 84 vessels, was also able to make the trip from the port of Dunkirk to Amblateuse unscathed. Ver Huell was showered with praise in France. In the Batavian Republic however, the victory was barely celebrated.
First Battle of Ypres. / 50.8641; 2.8956. The First Battle of Ypres ( French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium. The battle was part of the First Battle of Flanders, in which ...
The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) (Also known as Operation Dynamo) was a major battle during World War II. It lasted from the 26 May until 4 June 1940. The Allied forces were split in two by a German armoured advance to the Channel coast at Calais. The British and French commanders had been taken by surprise at the speed of ...
The Battle of Nieuwpoort, [6] was fought on 2 July 1600 during the Eighty Years War and the Anglo-Spanish war in the dunes near Nieuwpoort. [7] The Anglo-Dutch companies met the Spanish veterans head which, although their left flank nearly broke, were able to assail them with both infantry and cavalry.
The historiography of the Battle of France describes how the German victory over French and British forces in the Battle of France had been explained by historians and others. [a] Many people in 1940 found the fall of France unexpected and earth shaking. Alexander notes that Belgium and the Netherlands fell to the German army in a matter of ...
