 La Pallice

La Pallice (also known as grand port maritime de La Rochelle) is the commercial deep-water port of La Rochelle, France.During the Fall of France, on 19 June 1940, approximately 6,000 Polish soldiers in exile under the command of Stanisław Sosabowski
arrived at La Pallice, from where they were evacuated to Great Britain - thus able to go on fighting till the end of the war.