The pazer group took Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River and began to push north along the coast. It took them 11 days to cover 250 miles, and the journey began on May 20. The British and the French were pushed into a long skinny beachhead around the Dunkerque by May 26. After Leopold III, surrendered his army, destroyers and small aircrafts of all kinds came and rescued 338,226 men from the Dunkerque. Then the drive into France on June5 and picked up on June 9. On June 10, Italy declared war on Britain and France. On June 17 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, who was a hero from the previous war, World War II, and asked if he could have an armistice. It was signed on June 25 that said that Germany had control of Northern France and the Atlantic Coast. Then in the unoccupied southeast Petain set up the capital at Vicky.