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Dunkirk Evacuation Dunkirk Evacuation
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Combined Operations Combined Operations
Combined Operations, British nomenclature for amphibious warfare and the first British organization to have an inter-service headquarters.Though attacks from the sea had been mounted by the British for centuries they had no establishment which specialized in amphibious warfare until the... Read more
Battle of the Dunes Battle of the Dunes
Battle of the Dunes 1658, decisive engagement fought near Dunkirk in the struggle between France and Spain that had resulted from Spanish intervention in the Fronde . The Spanish under the command of Don John of Austria and Louis II de Condé lost to the French and their English allies under... Read more
Dunkirk Dunkirk
Dunkirk , Fr. Dunkerque, town (1990 pop. 71,071), Nord dept., N France, on the North Sea. It is a leading French port with daily ferry service to Ramsgate and Dover, England. It is a steel center; oil refining, shipbuilding, food processing, and the manufacture of electrical equipment are also... Read more
Jean Bart Jean Bart
Jean Bart , 1650-1702, French naval hero, b. Dunkirk. Of a seafaring family, he enlisted in the Dutch navy but entered French service as a privateer at the outbreak of the Dutch War (1672). In 1686 he was commissioned a navy captain. As a reward for his spectacular exploits, particularly in the War... Read more
Sir Bertram Home Ramsay Sir Bertram Home Ramsay
Sir Bertram Home Ramsay 1883-1945, British admiral. A career naval officer who retired in 1938, he returned to the service in World War II to command British and Allied naval units in some of the most spectacular operations of the war. He directed the evacuation of Dunkirk (1940), led the Allied... Read more
Ramsgate Ramsgate
Ramsgate , town (1991 pop. 36,678), in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, SE England. Ramsgate is a resort and yachting harbor. The town began as a fishing settlement, and extensive trade with Baltic ports developed early in the 18th cent. Queen Victoria lived there as a young princess. Examples of Regency... Read more
Samuel Hopkins Adams Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871-1958, American author, b. Dunkirk, N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1891. He was a reporter for the New York Sun (1891-1900) and then joined McClure's Magazine, where he gained a reputation as a muckraker for his articles on the conditions of public health in the United... Read more
John Benbow John Benbow
John Benbow , 1653-1702, English admiral. Some of the stories of his exploits seem to be legendary, but he did command the fleet and successfully fight the French at La Hogue (1692), Saint-Malo (1693), and Dunkirk (1696) and the Spanish in the West Indies (1698). In 1702 he engaged in a four-day... Read more
Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde Clarendon, 1st earl of , 1609-74, English statesman and historian. Elected (1640) to the Short and Long parliaments, he was at first associated with the opposition to Charles I and helped prepare the impeachment of the earl of Strafford. The increasing radicalism of the opposition,... Read more

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