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===Battle of Abbeville===
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The Battle of Abbeville took place from the 28 May to 4 June 1940 near [[Abbeville]] during the [[Battle of France]] in the [[Second World War]]. While [[Operation Dynamo]], the Dunkirk evacuation, was under way, Weygand tried to exploit the immobilisation of German forces, to attack northwards over the Somme and rescue the trapped Allied forces in the Dunkirk pocket. The attack was carried out by the French {{lang|fr|[[2e Division cuirassée]]}} (2nd DCr, heavy armoured division) and {{lang|fr|[[4e Division cuirassée]]}} (4th DCr) and the British [[1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|1st Armoured Division]]. The attacks reduced the size of the German bridgehead by about 50 per cent.{{sfn|Ellis|2004|pp=259–271}}