history, the french battleships

FRANCE had 4 long and 3 shorter battleships.
Bretagne shorter<, Dunkerque  700 feet 210m, Jean Bart  newer  v, Lorraine <,  Provence <, Richelieu  v
Strasbourg v.

by size order:

the two longest were j+r 800 feet, both battleships fired at the allies.

French battleship jean was in morocco. on nov' 8 '42, jean FIRED at u.s. who sank jean. similarly in june 1940 when france surrendered,  French battleship Richelieu, went to a port west coast of nile continent (africa.) soon in july 1940 brit bombd rich' there n it sank but... refloated. in sep' 1940 rich' SHOT AT brit  ships as ordered by vichy french under nazi.  brits expected this and acted: in july 1940, the british attacked french battleships in algeria:

  summary of story fixing ww2dbase Dunkerque 
after french surrendered to nazis, in june 1940, the French battleship Dunkerque and  Strasbourg were docked in Algeria. On 3 July, 1940, British fired at dun' and sank it. meanwhile, Strasbourg escaped and steamed across the sea to Toulon on the french South coast and rested nutral. they re-floated dun' and made critical repairs. it steamed there too. 

on 27 Nov' 1942, nazi troops and tanks came ergo the french crews exploded bombs to sink  Dunkerque and Strasbourg at Toulon. later Strasbourg was refloated. similarly, shorter battleship provence, after damage in algeria steamed to toulon. when french sank it, nazis refloated it and reused one of its guns.

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