Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te wa o te "Whawhai Peke", ko te whakaeke a te Wehrmacht me te pakaru i Ardennes i te Mei 1940 i angitu ki te wehewehe i nga ope a Allied, me te karapoti i te French 1st Army me te BEF, i whakatau kotahi a Gort ki te whakarere i ana whakahau i riro mai i te Kawanatanga o Ingarangi mo te whakaeke ki te tonga kia tautoko i te ope French, hei utu i te 25 o Mei 1940 ka whakahau i te BEF ki te raki ki te takutai French. I te taenga atu ki te takutai, i tirotiro a Gort i te reti nui o te BEF ki nga Moutere o Ingarangi, e pa ana ki te Pakanga o Dunkirk me te nekehanga o Dunkirk, i te wa i hinga a France, a, i whakawhiwhia ki a Brittany.
i tukua ki nga ope o te Third Reich e wha wiki i muri mai.