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How many Allied troops were evacuated from other French ports after Dunkirk?
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Battle of France
Adolf Hitler (center) in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris shortly after signing an armistice with France, June 1940.
Approximately 220,000 Allied troops were evacuated by British ships from France’s northwestern ports—specifically Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, and Saint-Nazaire—following the evacuation at Dunkirk.1