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On Christmas Day, 1941, two tiny French islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland were suddenly catapulted from obscurity into world prominence when the North American press, led by the New York Times, reported in front-page banner headlines that the "Free French Seize St. Pierre and Miquelon." The international repercussions of the dramatic invasion were so great that the leading Allied statesmen found themselves diverted from the pressing problems of world strategy in the hectic aftermath of Pearl Harbor to settle the fate of the tiny island outpost. The night of December 23, 1941 found the Free French squadron of three corvettes The Mimosa, Alysse, the Aconit and the giant submarine Surcouf laying off the south coast of Newfoundland. The flotilla had left Halifax a few days before under the pretext of a training exercise. The commander was Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier. On the dawn of the day before Christmas the Free French war ships crept into the sheltered harbor of St. Pierre. In one of the most unlikely invasion. liberation and escapade of World War II, the warships pulled up to the snow-covered government unopposed. A company of uniformed sailors and marines armed
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- Author
- Douglas George Anglin
- Publisher
- Penny Black Publishing
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780968422908
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities