Talk:Dunkirk

message: Proposed moves: Dunkirk → Dunkirk (disambiguation) and Dunkirk, France → Dunkirk - Dunkirk in France is by far the most significant Dunkirk; most, if not all other Dunkirks are named after this one. Discussion at Talk:Dunkirk. Markussep 07:49, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old talk 

message: I am posting this here because I don't feel it is appropriate to the Encyclopedia page, and not really sure where else it should go. Hopefully somebody more qualified will move it as appropriate.
The Other Little Boats: July 1588.
by Ed. Shanks
<text of poem redacted>
--Lil Miss Picky 15:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the text of the poem above.  It may well still be in copyright.  In any case, we would not normally publish the full text of a work, even in an article about that work. SpinningSpark 10:01, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Other Little Boats: July 1588 

message: "In the Eighty Years' War the port was the base of the infamous Dunkirker Raiders until the city was conquered by Louis XIII of France in 1646."
Seeing as these infamous raiders have no article, I was wondering if anyone knew enough to write about this. Also, the Wikipedia main page today has a link to this article mentioning the sale of Dunkirk to France by Charles II of England. However, I see no mention in the article. Can someone who knows of this topic add it to the article? Hiberniantears 15:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it was mentioned, but I elucidated it a bit.--MWAK 10:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infamous Raiders

message: Dunkirk has, apart from Krefeld, another partner town in Germany: the city of Rostock. I think it could be mentioned on the main page for completeness.
--Gzim75 07:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partner town in Germany 

message: Why is the map off-center?  The larger, zoomed version is correct, but the map is off-kilter.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.1.253.167 (talk) 22:26, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map? 

message: How could Louis XIII conquer the city in 1646 when he died in 1643?--Syd Henderson (talk) 17:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louis XIII Error 

message: It says that it's not known why the Germans were delayed, but I just learned in history class that it was because of fog. Why does it say here that the reason isn't known? 24.141.72.162 (talk) 22:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't know why the Germans delayed their attack...? 

message: "Nowadays, Dunkirk is the world's northernmost Francophone city (not counting minor Canadian settlements such as Fermont, which does have French as a majority language, but is not classified as a city)."
Does anyone have a citation for this?  I was sceptical, reading it, and a two-second google search suggests there are definitely arguments to be made for various places in Canada.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.86.196 (talk) 17:04, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northernmost Francophone city? 

message: The page is clearly in the right spot, but I am just realizing now that this is the only French city I can think of that is not referred to by its French name in English. That is to say, we don't Anglicize any other French place names, so why this one? It would be good if the article could address this.Sylvain1972 (talk) 15:06, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Some other French cities do have anglicized names, but they have become less common in English. (Doway, Lyons, Marseilles, and Cambray are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. My guess would be that due to Dunkirk's important role in the World Wars, the English name stuck. Genealogizer (talk) 22:14, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

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message: Obviously there has to be an error in these numbers from the article:
338,226 men (including 123,000 French soldiers) were evacuated – the miracle of Dunkirk, as Churchill called it. It took over 900 vessels to evacuate the Allied forces and although over two-thirds of those rescued embarked via the harbour, almost 295,000 British and 60,000 French were taken off the beaches.
Two thirds of a total of 338,226 is about 225,000. Now, if you add the 355,000 it says were taken from the beaches nothing adds up.
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: I spotted that, too. It's saying that 295,000 + 60,000 were taken off the beaches, which comes to 355,000 of the 338,266 men. But two thirds of them were taken off by harbour. I need to look into this further. — MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:55, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed the same thing and, although I can't solve it, I might as well share my findings.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation#Analysis and https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/52/195152-004-63549777.jpg and http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/02_february/03/dunkirk_facts_figures.shtml agree that 338,226 total were evacuated of which 239,555 (or 239,446 per BBC, small discrepancy -- but isn't it weird that sources agree on the total but not the breakdown?) embarked from the harbor and 98,671 (or 98,780 per BBC, small discrepancy) from the beaches. The British/French breakdown is iffier.  The Britannica graphic says 59% British, 41% French and Belgian, which would be about 199,553 British and 138,673 French/Belgian. But I see no breakdown in any source as to how many British and French/Belgian were taken specifically off the beaches rather than the harbor.  We need better sources than I can find to straighten this out.  It would not surprise me if NO ONE knows the breakdown by nationality that were taken off the beach rather than the harbor. It's surprising enough that they kept as precise a count as is reported in these sources; would they have also kept count of which uniform everyone was wearing as they picked them out of the surf after they'd waded out to a small boat?  Sorry I'm not more help. Gms3591 (talk) 13:18, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  WW2 evacuation numbers 

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