Quarterman Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   May 30

   1431: Joan of Arc, Burned at the stake in Rouen. Source: ToW

   1630:  Mary  and  John  arrives  at  Nantasket,  ``After seventy days'
   sailing, they entered the harbor of Nantasket, May 30, 1630, and after
   a  few days' reconnoitering, landaed at Mattapan, where, in the course
   of  the summer, they laid off their town, which they named Dorchester,
   in  honor of the old home of so many of them in England, and also that
   of Rev. John White, their friend and patron.'' -- Stacy, History.

   [2]``What  a  wondrous work of God it was, to stir up such Worthies to
   undertake  such  a  difficult  Work  as to remove themselves and their
   Wives  and  Children,  from  their  Native Country, and to leave their
   gallant  situations  there,  to come into the Wilderness to set up the
   pure  worship  of  God  her! So we came, by the good hand of the Lord,
   through the Deeps comfortably; having Preaching or Expounding the Word
   of  God  every Day for Ten weeks together by our Ministers.'' -- Roger
   Clapp, Memoirs

   1940:  Dunkirk  [middle],  [3]53,823  evacuated from Dunkirk, bringing
   total  landed  in England since May 27 to 126,606. [4]The nine days of
   Dunkirk  were  a  withdrawal  of  land forces less all their equipment
   across  the  English  Channel,  following  many  military disasters in
   France.  The  German  conquest  of France was complete. The evacuation
   owed  much  to the unstinting bravery of the French troops fighting at
   the  Dunkirk perimeter and to seven hundred brave small craft almost a
   hundred  of  which were lost in the evacuation of 385,000 troops, more
   than  100,000  of  them  French,  were ferried to the waiting ships or
   taken direct to England to fight again another day.

References

   1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
   2. http://www.nssdp.org/ship.htm
   3. http://www.worldwar2timeline.dial.pipex.com/1940western.htm
   4. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/history/mod/battleofdunkirk.html
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