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The Siege of London had been broken and the invader driven across the Medway. A furious Hitler ordered the 16th Army to cross the channel under the cover of the Luftwaffe and seize what they could of southeast England and …

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The Siege of London had been broken and the invader driven across the Medway. A furious Hitler ordered the 16th Army to cross the channel under the cover of the Luftwaffe and seize what they could of southeast England and force the British to accept a truce. The port of Dover remained under Axis control and it was here the transport ships headed. As the troop transports of the Kriegsmarine waited outside Dover harbor for their turn to unload, advanced elements of Operation Tremor attacked the South Foreland Battery to the northwest in a calculated gamble to recover powerful cross-channel artillery. If the Allies were to regain control of the guns atop the famous white cliffs they would be able to completely control access to the Port of Dover, cutting off supply and preventing the debarkation of thousands of Axis troops and countless supplies. The fate of Operation Sealion hung in the balance.

Dover, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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