Lord Gort saved 200,000 British troops with his May 1940 decision to evacuate this port
... 200,000 additional Allied troops from other French ports such as 
Cherbourg ... John Vereker Lord Gort, the head of the BEF, was one of the 
evacuees and... [DOC] [TLE] Myth and Reality [PAR] 1940: Myth and Reality ... took a very different view when the evacuation of the 
BEF from ... Dyle to Dunkirk began on 16 May.