In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson, sent from the British fleet in the Tagus, to establish the purpose of the French expedition and defeat it.

The Mexican and French oceanographic expedition SURPACLIP ( UNAM Mexico and UNC Nouméa ) made extensive studies in 1997 on and around the island.

Jost extended the 1997 studies through his French " Passion 2001 " expedition, explaining the evolution of the ecosystem, and releasing several papers, a video film, and a website.

Spain's alliance with the French pitched them into direct conflict with the British, and in 1762 a British expedition of five warships and 4, 000 troops set out from Portsmouth to capture Cuba.

Tradition has it that this was the reason for the expedition of Ru, from Tupua ' i in French Polynesia, who landed on Aitutaki, and Tangiia, also from French Polynesia, both of whom are believed to have arrived on Rarotonga around 800 AD.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

This was the largest British expedition to the colonies, and was intended to expel the French from the Ohio Country.

Washington was not involved in any other major fighting on the expedition, and the British scored a major strategic victory, gaining control of the Ohio Valley, when the French abandoned the fort.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

The second was another expedition in 1402 led by French adventurers, Jean de Bethancourt, Lord of Grainville in Normandy and Gadifer de la Salle of Poitou.

With a large expedition that eventually included 40 000 European troops, and receiving help from white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Alexandre Pétion, a former lieutenant of Rigaud, the French won several victories after severe fighting.

The next year a French expedition to Japan was formed to help the Tokugawa shogunate to modernize its army.

In 1720 the Villasur expedition from Santa Fe tried to reach the French on the Mississippi but was defeated by the Pawnee in eastern Nebraska.

The French Academy of Sciences commissioned an expedition led by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1799, which measured the distance between the Dunkerque belfry and Montjuïc castle, Barcelona to estimate the length of the meridian arc through Dunkerque ( assumed to be the same length as the Paris meridian ).

In 1669 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, led an expedition of French traders who became the first Europeans to see the river.

Silas Talbot engineered an expedition to Puerto Plata harbor in the Colony of Santo Domingo, a possession of France's ally Spain, on May 11, 1800 ; sailors and marines from the USS Constitution under Lieutenant Isaac Hull captured the French privateer Sandwich in the harbor and spiked the guns in the Spanish fort.

It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt.

The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.

The discovery was reported in Courrier de l ' Égypte, the official newspaper of the French expedition, in September: the anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.

General Jacques-François Menou, who had been one of the first to see the stone in 1799, was now in command of the French expedition.

It was part of a collection of ancient Egyptian monuments captured from the French expedition, including a sarcophagus of Nectanebo II ( EA 10 ), the statue of a high priest of Amun ( EA 81 ) and a large granite fist ( EA 9 ).

In 1758 the French settlement was captured by a British expedition as part of the Seven Years ' War, but was later returned to France.

Three years afterwards, under Yusuf's son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf, Sintra and Santarém were added, and Iberia was again invaded in 1119 and 1121, but the tide had turned, the French having assisted the Aragonese to recover Zaragoza.

The Free French, under General Charles de Gaulle, were determined to recover Indochina, though they offered Cambodia and the other Inchochinese protectorates a carefully circumscribed measure of self-government.

Myers secretly funded a trip to French Morocco for half a year for Orwell to avoid the English winter and recover his health.

The Duke of Ormonde refused to commit British troops to battle, so the French under Villars were able to recover much lost ground in 1712, such as at the Battle of Denain.

* June 30 – Battle of Esquiroz: French forces under Henri d ' Albret, exiled King of Navarre, are defeated by the Spanish and forced to abandon their attempt to recover Henri's kingdom.

In the end, the half-hearted French intervention did not allow Stanisław to recover his throne.

The French invasion, which was Charles's last realistic chance to recover the British throne for the Stuart dynasty, was ultimately thwarted by naval defeats at Quiberon Bay and Lagos.

Few of these tapestries survived the French Revolution as hundreds were burnt to recover the gold thread that was often woven into them.

The government prosecutors hired Bernard Jouanneau, a French lawyer to investigate as well as recover some of the millions of CAR francs that Bokassa had diverted from the national treasury and from both social and charity funds for his own personal use in the embezzlement charges.

McCarty and French broke cover and dashed to Brady's body, possibly to get his arrest warrant for McSween or to recover McCarty's rifle, which Brady had kept from a prior arrest.

Following the French victory at the Battle of Austerlitz ( December 2, 1805 ), Prussia went to war in 1806 to recover her position as the pre-eminent power of Central Europe.

As a result, the Austrian Empire saw its chance to recover some of its former sphere of influence and invaded the Kingdom of Bavaria, a French ally.

The heavy losses suffered, which included many seasoned troops as well as over thirty generals of varying rank, was something that the French would not be able to recover from with ease.

In 1655 French armies gained more ground, but in 1656 Turenne suffered a serious defeat at Valenciennes, and though the causes of the defeat had been largely outside his control, he again showed his ability to recover from an outcome that would have overwhelmed lesser generals.

Ever since the Seven Years ' War, France's foreign ministers, beginning with Choiseul, had followed the general idea that the independence of Britain's North American colonies would be good for France and bad for Britain, and furthermore that French attempts to recover parts of New France would be detrimental to that cause.

In August 1762, he was wounded in battle against the French, and sent back to Minden to recover.

During that period the Cross served as a rallying point for French ambitions to recover its lost provinces.

In 1818 the Uranie with French explorer Louis de Freycinet, who had been an officer in Hamelin's 1801 crew, sent a boat ashore to recover de Vlamingh's plate.

Its creation reflected the government ’ s decision to recover the large wind tunnel in Otztal, Germany, in the French administrative zone, and move it to France.

In December 1414, the English parliament was persuaded to grant Henry a " double subsidy ", a tax at twice the traditional rate, to recover his inheritance from the French.

The power of the French fleet was broken, and would not recover before the war was over ; in the words of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( The Influence of Sea Power upon History ), " The battle of 20 November 1759 was the Trafalgar of this war, and [...] the English fleets were now free to act against the colonies of France, and later of Spain, on a grander scale than ever before ".

According to legend, the Knight Gaspard de Stérimberg returned home wounded in 1224 from the Albigensian Crusade and was given permission by the Queen of France to build a small refuge to recover in, where he remained living as a hermit ( ermite in French ).

However his slow actions allowed the defeated enemies to recover and expel the French from Lombardy.

Coria withdrew from the 2006 French Open and Wimbledon as he attempted to sort out the problems with his game, recover from an elbow injury, and rediscover his old form.