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We shall fight on the beaches

Churchill’s defiant address following the Dunkirk evacuation, declaring Britain would continue fighting Nazi Germany across every battlefield—beaches, streets, fields, hills—and never surrender. The speech transformed military disaster into moral victory, rallying Parliament and the nation for the struggle ahead.

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“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

Winston Churchill

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Title: We shall fight on the beaches

Author: Winston Churchill

Type: Speech

Publisher: n/a

Publication time: June 4, 1940

Publication place: House of Commons, England

Link: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/

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