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Charles de Gaulle

A British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base

Wednesday Jul 3, 1940
Algeria

De Gaulle initially reacted angrily to news of the Royal Navy's attack on the French fleet (3 July)at Mers El Kébir, at Oran, on the coast of French Algeria.


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