[1]Tomorrow:
May 30
1431: Joan of Arc, Burned at the stake in Rouen. Source: ToW
1920: John 17th Earl of Caithness d., in Los Angeles. --Privateers
1940: Dunkirk [middle], [2]53,823 evacuated from Dunkirk, bringing
total landed in England since May 27 to 126,606. [3]The nine days of
Dunkirk were a withdrawal of land forces less all their equipment
across the English Channel, following many military disasters in
France. The German conquest of France was complete. The evacuation
owed much to the unstinting bravery of the French troops fighting at
the Dunkirk perimeter and to seven hundred brave small craft almost a
hundred of which were lost in the evacuation of 385,000 troops, more
than 100,000 of them French, were ferried to the waiting ships or
taken direct to England to fight again another day.
References
1. http://sinclair.quarterman.org/timeline.html
2. http://www.worldwar2timeline.dial.pipex.com/1940western.htm
3. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/history/mod/battleofdunkirk.html
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