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Even as the famous flotilla departed France, British general Archie Beauman was conjuring up his own miracle hundreds of miles to the south. Brig. Gen. Archibald Bentley Beauman, taking stock of his troops’ situation in northern France on the evening of May 20, 1940, was concerned, to put it mildly. In a lightning advance, the …
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