The story
The Royal Navy in a series of actions at Oran and Mcs-el-Kebir sinks or puts out of action important units of the French Fleet, lest under German pressure they attempt to return to France and to surrender to the Germans. The Strasbourg escapes to Toulon, damaged.
The French warships in British ports taken over.
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