John Moses Browning began development of the Browning GP35 ' High Power ' ( sometimes written as Hi-Power ) pistol, the GP standing for Grande Puissance or " high power " in French.

* Grande Puissance, Filloux, a French heavy artillery gun.

In 1886 Said Ali bin Said Omar, Sultan of Bambao, signed an agreement with the French government that allowed France to establish a protectorate over the entire island of Ngazidja ( Grande Comore ; protectorates were also established over Ndzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mwali ( Mohéli island in French ) the same year.

Mayotte thus remains under French administration, and the Comorian Government has effective control over only Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli.

* 1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.

The war comedy La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 ), from Gérard Oury with Bourvil, was the most successful film in French theaters for more than 30 years.

The French army was renamed La Grande Armée in 1805 and Napoleon used propaganda and nationalism to control the French population.

* 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland ( modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

The comte d ' Angiviller broadened the collection and in 1776 proposed conversion of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre – which contained maps – into the " French Museum ".

After the creation of the French Second Republic in 1848, the new government allocated two million francs for repair work and ordered the completion of the Galerie d ' Apollon, the Salon Carré, and the Grande Galérie.

During the Second French Empire, between 1852 and 1870, the French economy grew ; by 1870 the museum had added 20, 000 new pieces to its collections, and the Pavillon de Flore and the Grande Galérie were remodelled under architects Louis Visconti and Hector Lefuel.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

The French invasion of Russia at the height of Napoleon's power in 1812 failed miserably as the obstinate resistance in combination with the bitterly cold Russian Winter led to a disastrous defeat of invaders, in which more than 95 % of the pan-European Grande Armée perished.

* 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow.

The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point, which reduced the French and allied invasion forces ( the Grande Armée ) to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics, as it dramatically weakened the previously dominant French position on the continent.

* June 24 – Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Niemen River and invades Russia ( see French invasion of Russia ).

The French sense of arabesque: Savonnerie carpet after Charles Le Brun for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre

Hector Berlioz (; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869 ) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts ( Requiem ).

La Grande Illusion ( also known as Grand Illusion ) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.

Houdon returned to favor during the French Consulate and Empire, being taken on as one of the original artistic team for what became the Column of the Grande Armée at Wimille.

La Grande Arche was inaugurated in July 1989, with grand military parades that marked the bicentennial of the French revolution.

The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.

" Comoros has requested a similar program for Grande Comore and Anjouan, total population 760, 000, and Li said that Beijing has agreed in principle.

As a result, many Cimbri has left the mountain region and dispersed around the world, for places such as the Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil.

He also painted a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

form a sub-branch of the genre called Grande Dame Guignol for its use of aging A-list actresses in sensational horror films.

During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).

Pelletier argues that Grande Terre was completely submerged for millions of years, and hence the origin of the flora may not be local in nature, but due to long distance-dispersal.

The Rio Grande is tied for the fourth longest river in the U. S.

In the Compromise of 1850 Texas ceded its claims to the area lying east of the Rio Grande in exchange for ten million dollars and the US government established the New Mexico Territory on September 9, 1850, including most of the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico, and part of Colorado.

The start of the Oligocene is marked by a notable extinction event ; the replacement of European fauna with Asian fauna, except for the endemic rodent and marsupial families called the Grande Coupure.

Argentina refused Solano López's request for permission for his army to cross Argentine territory to attack the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul, Undeterred, Solano López sent his forces into Argentina.

* San Juan Port-Mainly divided in three: one in Old San Juan which includes cargo / freight and cruise ships, the Pan American Port Terminal in Isla Grande section mostly for cruise ships, and Puerto Nuevo, exclusively for freight / cargo ships.

Argentina was host of the ninth edition of the World Polo Championship ( for teams of up to 14 goals ) at the Estancia Grande Polo Club, in the province of San Luis in October 2011.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

The dawn of fascism in the early 1920s heralded a change of strategy for Italy, as the north-eastern sultanates were soon to be forced within the boundaries of La Grande Somalia according to the plan of Fascist Italy.

The year 2000 brought additional hardship for the laboratory in the form of the Cerro Grande Fire, a severe forest fire that destroyed several buildings ( and employees ' homes ) and forced the laboratory to close for two weeks.

The Rio Grande rises in high mountains and flows for much of its length at high elevation ; El Paso is above sea level.

The water of the Rio Grande is over-appropriated: that is, there are more users for the water than there is water in the river.

: Charter schools include Anansi Charter School, Taos Academy ( State Charter ), Taos Municipal Charter School and Vista Grande High School.

High Speed 1 ( HS1 ) ( previously known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link ) is a high speed railway built to French ' LGV ' ( Ligne à Grande Vitesse ) standards, connecting the Channel Tunnel to London.

There are currently six elementary schools ( Jamaica Elementary, Oro Grande Elementary, Starline Elementary, Smoketree Elementary, Nautilus Elementary, and Havasupai Elementary ), one middle school ( Thunderbolt Middle School ), one high school ( Lake Havasu High School ), and several alternative schools in the city.

* Arroyo Grande High School

* Arroyo Grande High School

Before that students attended Arroyo Grande High School.

The public school district also controls Gallia Academy High School, Green Elementary and Rio Grande Elementary, which are located outside of the village limits.

Campuses serving the village include Rio Grande Elementary School, Gallia Academy Middle School, and Gallia Academy High School.

The city is served by the La Grande School District, which includes Central Elementary School, Greenwood Elementary School, La Grande Middle School, and La Grande High School.

The story of the 1961 Donna High School Redskins, the only team from the Rio Grande

There are 4 private schools: San Martin de Porres Catholic School, Valley Grande Adventist Academy, Mid-Valley Christian School, and First Christian Academy and 2 Charter schools: Horizon Montessori and Technology Education Charter High School.

Located within the district are the port of Big Creek ( the main port of Belize's banana industry ), the peninsula and village of Placencia ( a popular tourist resort ), the villages of Alta Vista, Commerce Bight, Dancing Pool, Georgetown, Guana Church Bank, High Sand, Independence and Mango Creek, Kendal, Lagarto Bank, Maya Mopan, Middle Bank, Middlesex, Mullins River, New Home, Pomona, Quarry Hill, Rancho Grande, Red Bank, Regalia, Sarawee, Silver Creek Camp, Silk Grass, San Roman, Sittee and the Garifuna village of Hopkins on the Sittee River.

Beebe described his experiences at Rancho Grande in his 1949 book High Jungle, which was the last of Beebe's major books.

Pagbilao has numerous primary and secondary educational institutions like the Pagbilao Central Elementary School ( public ), Pagbilao Academy ( high school, private ), Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao ( high school, Catholic-private ) Talipan National High School, Pagbilao National High School, Pagbilao Grande Island National High School, and some tertiary education institutions such as the Quezon National Agricultural School ( QNAS ) located in Brgy.

* Fairview College and NAIT become one organization as NAIT assumes responsibility for the administration of campuses in High Level, La Crete, Peace River, Fairview, Grande Prairie and St. Albert.

Rio Grande Campus in Downtown Austin, formerly Austin High School ( Austin, Texas ) | Austin High School and John T. Allan Junior High School ( est.

GMC used a few variations of the " Sierra " name ( Sierra, High Sierra, Sierra Grande, Sierra Classic ) to distinguish the different trim levels through 1987, though the " C / K " nomenclature was continued through 1999.