1646-In October, he is wounded at Dunkirk, while fighting under the Great Conde against the Spaniards.

There are currently 20, 000 speakers of a subset of the Dutch dialect West Flemish in the arrondissement of Dunkirk and this particular subset is in danger of extinction within decades.

* June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1654 – 1660 ) and Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 1659 ): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English.

England is then given Dunkirk for its assistance in the victory.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

It is also a significant dividing point in the county's geopolitics, with the " North County " being centered around Dunkirk and the " South County " centered around Jamestown each having their own interests.

The first took place on the Cloostervelt near Hondschoote, in what is now the arrondissement of Dunkirk in French Flanders, very close to where the attacks later began, and the first one to be armed against disruption was held near Boeschepe on July 12, 1562, two months after religious war had broken out again over the ( then ) French border just nearby.

Dunkirk is located about 47 kilometres by road to the east.

Dunkirk (, ; ; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

* 1980: A large part of Petite-Synthe is detached from Dunkirk and included into Grande-Synthe

The cuisine of Dunkirk is closely related to Flemish cuisine, perhaps one of the best known dishes is Coq à la bière, which is chicken in a creamy beer sauce.

The railway line from Dunkirk to De Panne, Belgium, shown on major on-line maps, is not used by passenger trains.

* The Quatre Jours de Dunkerque ( or Four Days of Dunkirk ) is an important elite professional road bicycle racing event.

A small portion of the city of Dunkirk, known as Shadyside, is located in the Jackson Township portion of Blackford County, but most of Dunkirk is located in Jay County.

Dunkirk is a city in Blackford and Jay counties in the U. S. state of Indiana.

Dunkirk is located at ( 40. 37 ,-85. 21 ), primarily within Jay County but with a section in neighboring Blackford County.

Dunkirk is the hometown of drowning pool singer Ryan Mccombs ( 2011 )

Dunkirk is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States.

Dunkirk is located at ( 38. 713499, − 76. 670070 ).

Many films made in Britain drew on true stories, such as The Dam Busters ( 1954 ), Dunkirk ( 1958 ), Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) telling the life of Douglas Bader and Sink the Bismarck!

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

Gary C. " Gar " Samuelson ( February 18, 1958 in Dunkirk, New York – July 14, 1999 in Orange City, Florida ) was a drummer best remembered for his work with the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1984 – 1987, contributing to their first 2 albums.

These films include The Third Man ( 1949 ), The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), Dunkirk ( 1958 ), Web of Evidence ( 1959 ), Whistle Down the Wind ( 1961 ) and The L-Shaped Room ( 1962 ).

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

His book " The Big Pick-Up " was one of the stories around which the 1958 film Dunkirk was based on.

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )-Don R

The beach was used in the 1958 film Dunkirk starring John Mills to recreate Operation Dynamo.

* 1958 – Dunkirk

* Dunkirk ( 1958 )

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.

During the Phoney War from September 1939 until the Dunkirk evacuation, Philby worked as the Times correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force headquarters.

His father, Roger Sterne, was an Ensign in a British regiment recently returned from Dunkirk.

In June 1940 over 60, 000 British prisoners of war, captured at Dunkirk and Northern France, were marched to Trier, which became a staging post for British soldiers headed for German prisoner-of-war camps.

The British with the thinnest of margins rescued its main army from Dunkirk ( as well as many French soldiers ), leaving their all their equipment and war supplies behind.

British troops were forced to evacuate the continent at Dunkirk, abandoning their heavy equipment by early June.

** WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force starts.

** WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British and Dutch forces complete evacuating 300, 000 troops from Dunkirk in France to England.

" He also suggested facetiously that his Third Army could " drive the British allies back into the sea for another Dunkirk.

The départments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais ( with the exception of the coast, notably Dunkirk ) were, for the most part, liberated in five days, from the 1 to 5 September 1944 by British, American, Canadian, and Polish troops.

* Dunkirk evacuation ( Operation Dynamo ), the evacuation of 338, 226 British and French troops during that battle

* Dunkirk, a song by the British band Camel

Nevertheless, the Belgian perseverance prevented the British Expeditionary Force from being outflanked and cut off from the coast, enabling the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Along with the Belgian troops, French and British troops were encircled by German forces at Dunkirk.

As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940.

Most of the British were still around Lille, over from Dunkirk, and the French still further south.

Von Rundstedt advised him the infantry should attack the British forces at Arras, where the British had proved capable of significant action, while Kleist's armour held the line west and south of Dunkirk in order to pounce on the Allied forces retreating before Army Group B.

On 27 May, the British fought back to the Dunkirk perimeter line.

The route back from Brooke's position to Dunkirk passed through the town of Poperinge ( known to most British sources as " Poperinghe "), where there was a bottleneck at a bridge over the Yser canal.

Command control on the British side disintegrated, and the perimeter was driven slowly inwards toward Dunkirk.

British troops under fire on the beach at Dunkirk

Strangely, Von Kuechler ignored a radio intercept telling him the British were abandoning the eastern end of the line to fall back to Dunkirk itself.