* Moons or Moons Station – A hamlet on the eastern town border, east of Kabob and south of Cassadaga village on Route 60, named for DC Moon, a primary supporter of and contributor of land in the area for the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad.

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

From the 2010 General Election, it covers the wards of Bridge, Clifton North, Clifton South, Dunkirk and Lenton, Leen Valley, Radford and Park, Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey, and Wollaton West.

The New York and Erie Railroad arrived in Hornell in 1850, which connected New York City and Dunkirk on Lake Erie via a southern tier route.

Development was slow until the New York and Erie Railroad established a station in Dunkirk village in 1851.

* Railroad service in Dunkirk is served by CSX Transportation ( via the Buffalo-Cleveland-Willard ( Ohio )- Chicago Main Line ) and Norfolk Southern Railway ( Buffalo-Cleveland-Fort Wayne-Chicago Main Line ).

When the New York and Erie Railroad ( NY & E ) relocated its shops facilities from Dunkirk, New York, to Buffalo in 1869, Dunkirk lost its largest employer.

Horatio G. Brooks ( October 30, 1828 – April 20, 1887 ) worked as chief engineer for the New York and Erie Railroad ( NY & E ) until the railroad moved its steam locomotive maintenance facilities from Dunkirk, New York, to Buffalo, New York.

Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

The armoured and motorized forces were halted, by Hitler, outside the port city of Dunkirk, which was being used to evacuate the Allied forces.

In 1971, he began working as editor-in-chief at Guidon Games, a publisher of wargames, for which he produced the board games Alexander the Great and Dunkirk.

With the exception of a few ships from Dunkirk, which came to the island in 1617 and were either driven away or forced to give a third of their catch to the Dutch, only the Dutch and merchants from Hull sent up ships to Jan Mayen from 1616 onward.

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.

Borda constructed instruments for measuring angles in the new units ( the instrument could no longer be called a " sextant ") which was later used in the measurement of the meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona by Delambre to determine the length of the metre.

True, in his political testament dated 26 February 1945 Hitler lamented that Churchill was " quite unable to appreciate the sporting spirit " in which he had refrained from annihilating the BEF at Dunkirk, but this hardly squares with the contemporary record.

As well as the Luftwaffes bombs, German heavy artillery ( which had just come within range ) also fired high-explosive shells into Dunkirk.

Liddell Hart says British Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft dogfighting over Dunkirk, and the Luftwaffe lost about 135 – some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy ; but MacDonald says the British lost 177 aircraft and the Germans lost 240.

In May 1940, it was a key objective of the invading German forces and became the scene of a last-ditch defence — the Siege of Calais — which diverted a sizable amount of German forces for several days immediately prior to the Battle of Dunkirk.

Guy's son Count Robert III ( 1305 – 1322 ) nevertheless granted further city rights to Dunkirk, his successor Count Louis I ( 1322 – 1346 ) had to face the Peasant revolt of 1323 – 1328, which was crushed by King Philip VI of France at the 1328 Battle of Cassel, whereafter the Dunkirkers again were affected by the repressive measures of their lord-paramount.

Count Louis remained a loyal liensmen of the French king upon the outbreak of the Hundred Years ' War with England in 1337, and prohibited the maritime trade, which led to another revolt by the Dunkirk citizens.

Dunkirk with Flanders was incorporated it into the Habsburg Netherlands and upon the 1581 secession of the Seven United Netherlands, remained part of the Southern Netherlands, which were held by Habsburg Spain ( Spanish Netherlands ) as Imperial fiefs.

* 1970: Merger with Malo-les-Bains ( which had been created by being detached from Dunkirk in 1881 )

On 19 December 2003, the municipal councils of Dunkirk and Saint-Pol-sur-Mer decided in favour of a fusion-association, which would create a new entity with a population of 94, 187.

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.

Moreover, the great port of Dunkirk, which had been the principal objective of Maurice's campaign, lay out of reach and in Spanish hands.

Exit 59 on the New York State Thruway, which passes north of the village, services both Fredonia and Dunkirk by way of New York State Route 60.

Silver Creek is served by the Lake Erie Regional Health System, which consists of Lake Shore Hospital in Irving, Brooks Hospital in Dunkirk and Tri-County Memorial Hospital in Gowanda.

Count Philip I ( 1157 – 1191 ) brought further large tracts of marshland under cultivation, laid out first plans to build a Canal from Dunkirk to Bergues and vested the Dunkirkers with market rights.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

In this manner, he seeks to expunge from his own soul the guilt pangs caused by his personal assaults against the English at Dunkirk.

Only the Dunkirk evacuation saved the entire Expeditionary Force from capture.

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.

There were also two ships from Dunkirk sent by John Clarke, as well as a ship each from London and Hull.

The ships from Dunkirk were given the same conditions.

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.

* 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.

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.

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

Although most of the region was liberated in September 1944, Dunkirk was the last French town to be freed from German occupation ( 9 May 1945 ).

In addition to the trains, in 2002, there were about 15 million passengers from the three major ferry ports of the region ( Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne ).

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.

This area roughly stretches from French Gravelines and Dunkirk at its southwestern point, to the area of Dutch Delfzijl and German Eastern Frisia at its northeastern point, and to Luxembourg and French Thionville in the southeast.

The French scheme to invade Britain was arranged in combination with the Jacobite leaders, and soldiers were to be transported from Dunkirk.

As an instrument maker, he improved the reflecting circle ( invented by Tobias Mayer ) and the repeating circle ( invented by his assistant, Etienne Lenoir ), the latter used to measure the meridian arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona by Delambre and Méchain.

In 1940 and in the aftermath of Dunkirk, Churchill's interest was caught again by the idea of taking the fight back to Europe-the airborne was now a means ' to be able to storm a series of water obstacles ... everywhere from the Channel to the Mediterranean and in the East '.

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