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Capture of Great Britain

Name: Capture of Great Britain – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

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

2Records

1940–1944Date range

1Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill27 June 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

All French ships in British ports are seized by the royal Navy

1944

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill5 June 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Announces the Allied liberation of Rome in the Commons

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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