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Calais Decision

Name: Calais Decision – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill24 May 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Orders Calais to hold out to aid the Dunkirk evacuation.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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