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Dunkirk (UK: / d ʌ n ˈ k ɜːr k / dun-KURK, US: / ˈ d ʌ n k ɜːr k / DUN-kurk, [3] [4] French: Dunkerque [dœ̃kɛʁk] ⓘ; Picard: Dunkèke; West Flemish: Duunkerke; Dutch: Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a major port city in the department of Nord in northern France. [5] It lies 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border. It has the ...
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
The siege of Dunkirk was a siege commenced by France under the command of Louis, le Grand Condé with naval support of the Dutch Republic under the command of admiral Maarten Tromp, who were able to blockade the city to help Condé's siege.
The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front , the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain ...
The first town hall of Dunkirk was erected on the current site in 1233. Gravelines and Dunkirk had been under English control, when they were attacked by the French marshal, Paul de Thermes, in 1558 during the Italian War of 1551–1559. [3] The re-building of the town hall, which had been completely destroyed in the attack, was completed in 1562.
The siege of Dunkirk in 1658 was a military operation by France and the Commonwealth of England intended to capture the fortified port city of Dunkirk, Spain's greatest privateering base, from a Spanish garrison strengthened with English Royalists and French Fronduers.
The arrondissement of Dunkirk (French: Dunkerque, Dutch: Duinkerke) is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 111 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 371,736 (2021), and its area is 1,442.7 km 2 (557.0 sq mi).
Located in the town cemetery of Dunkirk, France, the design by Commission architect Philip Hepworth features memorial panels, a shrine in the form of a shelter, and an engraved glass pane by John Hutton. Those commemorated include soldiers lost on ships sunk during the evacuation, as well as a recipient of the Victoria Cross.