<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: We shall fight on the beaches </Td> </Tr> <P> "We shall fight on the beaches" is a common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940 . This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France; the others are the "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech of 13 May and the "This was their finest hour" speech of 18 June . Events developed dramatically over the five - week period, and although broadly similar in themes, each speech addressed a different military and diplomatic context . </P> <P> In this speech, Churchill had to describe a great military disaster, and warn of a possible invasion attempt by the Nazis, without casting doubt on eventual victory . He also had to prepare his domestic audience for France's falling out of the war without in any way releasing France to do so, and wished to reiterate a policy and an aim unchanged--despite the intervening events--from his speech of 13 May, in which he had declared the goal of "victory, however long and hard the road may be". </P> <P> Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister on 10 May, 1940, eight months after the outbreak of World War II in Europe . He had done so as the head of a multiparty coalition government, which had replaced the previous government (led by Neville Chamberlain) as a result of dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war, demonstrated by the Norway debate on the Allied evacuation of Southern Norway . </P>

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