The Battle of Dunkirk

The british and hanoverian forces, under the grand old duke of york, headed up to dunkirk. But this diversion wasn't supposed to be that big of a deal. Dunkirk would fall quickly, france would collapse shortly thereafter. But then neither of those things happened,. And before they knew it, the british were in full on retreat back to the netherlands. The british failure to take dunkirk was mostly a failure of istical co ordination. When the britISH army showed up outside the city, they were supposed to be met by the bittish navy, but there was no navy. There was supposed to