Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

Charles de Gaulle - De Gaulle commandeered some retreating cavalry

Time: Friday May 17, 1940 at 04:30:00 AM

Place: Montcornet, France

Details: De Gaulle commandeered some retreating cavalry and artillery units and also received an extra half-brigade, one of whose battalions included some heavy B1 bis tanks. The attack at Montcornet, a key road junction near Laon, began around 04:30 on 17 May.

Related

Near

Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked again and his forces were once again devastated
Sunday May 19, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle delayed his retreat
Monday May 20, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle gave a talk on French radio
Tuesday May 21, 1940 - Montcornet, France
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1
Unification of Italy-Battle of Sedan
1870 - Sedan, Ardennes, France
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-The Germans broke through at Sedan
Wednesday May 15, 1940 - France

On This Day - 17 May

Ottoman Empire Coat of arms
Ottoman Empire-Treaty of Zuhab
Tuesday May 17, 1639 - Ottoman Empire
New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange-Buttonwood Agreement
Thursday May 17, 1792 - 68 Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Charles kept the bulk of his troops several kilometres away from the river bank in hopes of concentrating them at the point where Napoleon decided to cross
Wednesday May 17, 1809 - Austria
null
German revolutions of 1848–1849-Agroup of workers and democrats from Trier and neighboring townships stormed the arsenal at Prüm
Thursday May 17, 1849 - Central Europe (Present-Day Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla-William Arnold Anthony and Electrical World magazine editor Thomas Commerford Martin arranged for Tesla to demonstrate his AC motor
Thursday May 17, 1888 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

May 1940

World War II
World War II-The Norway Debate
Tuesday May 7, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Norway Debate
Tuesday May 7, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Churchill had won the doubters over and his successor as party leader was a formality
Thursday May 9, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-Germany attacked France
Friday May 10, 1940 - France
World War II
World War II-Neville Chamberlain resignation
Friday May 10, 1940 - London, England, United Kingdom

1940

Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image
Second Sino-Japanese War-China's first Large-Scale Counter-offensive
1940 - China
J.F.Kennedy Image
John F. Kennedy-Graduated
1940 - Cambridge, Massachusrtts, U.S.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein-American Citizen
1940 - U.S.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh-He began regularly using the name Hồ Chí Minh
1940 - China
Schindler, Oskar Image
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Schindler Interest
1940 - Kraków, Poland
<