A hastily assembled team of over 800 horses facilitated the Dunkirk evacuation.
On the first day, only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, 338,226 had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 vessels
 Almost 200,000 troops embarked on ships from the east mole (which stretched nearly a mile out to sea) over the next week

