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  2. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

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    We shall fight on the beaches" was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France ; the others are the " Blood, toil, tears and sweat " speech of 13 May ...

  3. This was their finest hour - Wikipedia

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    This was their finest hour" was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government.

  4. Little Ships of Dunkirk - Wikipedia

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    The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...

  5. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Wikipedia

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    World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" [a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1]

  6. Winston Churchill - Wikipedia

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    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.

  7. Opinion - What might Winston Churchill think of Donald Trump?

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    That out-of-the-blue question was asked the other day at Churchill’s home, Chartwell, outside London, where I was speaking about the former British prime minister’s relationships with Franklin ...

  8. June 1940 - Wikipedia

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    Churchill encouraged the French to continue the fight from North Africa, but Reynauld sought British consent to seek an armistice with Germany instead, which Churchill refused to grant. [ 1 ] Born: Bobbie Clarke , rock drummer, in Coventry , England (d. 2014); M. M. Rahmat Ullah , bureaucrat and politician, in Rajshahi , British India (present ...

  9. File:Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945 MH26392 ...

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