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- Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War II, called it a "miracle of deliverance" in his famed We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech in 1940. He was praising the remarkable evacuation of 338,226 British and French troops from the beach and harbour at Dunkirk.
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Churchill himself referred to "a miracle of deliverance" in his "we shall fight on the beaches" speech to the Commons that afternoon, though he shortly reminded everyone that: "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations".
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Nov 30, 2006 · In the House of Commons on June 4, Churchill called the evacuation “a miracle of deliverance, achieved by valour, by perseverance, by perfect discipline, by faultless service, by resource, by skill, by unconquerable fidelity.”
Dec 18, 2017 · The evacuation of more than 300,000 soldiers in the midst of impossible odds at Dunkirk was what the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described as a “miracle of deliverance”. Were it not for the many civilian water craft that battled enormous odds to cross the English Channel and save many soldiers, many would have lost their ...
Operation Dynamo explained. The allied evacuations from Dunkirk in 1940 are often described as a miracle. After Germany's blitzkrieg swept through France and the Low Countries expectations for Operation Dynamo were dismally low, and yet over 338,000 allied soldiers were saved. So how did they do it? How did the British escape from Dunkirk? Watch on
