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That same day Marlborough and Eugene carried out their own reconnaissance of the French position from the church spire at Tapfheim, and moved their combined forces to Münster – five miles ( 8 km ) from the French camp.
However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.
On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.
* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
) Bataillon de reconnaissance et d ' Appui ) and six infantry battalion ( French wikipedia lists 1st-6th ).
Abercromby's second-in-command, Brigadier General George Howe, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.
During the First World War, two French aviators — aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu ( played by Pierre Fresnay ) and working-class Lieutenant Maréchal ( Jean Gabin ) — embark on a flight to examine the site of a blurred spot on photos from an earlier air reconnaissance mission.
De Broglie intrigued with his old subordinate, German Johann de Kalb, ( who had previously done a reconnaissance of America ), to send French officers to fight alongside the Americans, ( and perhaps set up a French generalissimo ).
The French use of the reconnaissance balloon l ' Entreprenant marked the first military use of an aircraft that had decisive influence on the outcome of the battle.
A French reconnaissance balloon, l ' Entreprenant, operated by the Aerostatic Corps, continuously informed General of Division ( MG ) Jean-Baptiste Jourdan about Austrian movements.
A French reconnaissance revealed that Wellington's right flank was weakly held by a unit of partisans near the hamlet of Poco Velho.
After the successful crossing of the Danube early on 5 July, the French light cavalry launched reconnaissance missions as they preceded the advance of the infantry columns.
| bombs = 4, 000 kg ( 8, 800 lb ) of payload on five external hardpoints, including a variety of bombs, reconnaissance pods or Drop tanks ; French Air Force IIIEs through 1991, equipped for AN-52 nuclear bomb.
French reconnaissance balloon L ' Intrépide of 1796, the oldest existing flying device, in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
Some were French Army cooperation squadrons to help with matters like reconnaissance for the French Army.
* 1796 – Battle of Fombio: French general Amadee Laharpe was killed by his own men while returning from reconnaissance.
Using highly effective camouflage, the French Union reconnaissance planes were not able to notice them.
Brigadier General George Howe, Abercromby's second-in-command, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.
Although an invasion of Piedmont failed, an invasion of Spain across the Pyrenees took San Sebastián, and the French won a victory at Fleurus, the French Aerostatic Corps use of the reconnaissance balloon L ' Entreprenant marked the first military use of an aircraft that had decisive influence on the outcome of the battle, and occupied all of Belgium and the Rhineland.

French and under
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.
he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.
In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.
* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
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.
* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.
He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.
During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.
Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.
* A list of French victories is engraved under the great arches on the inside façades of the monument.
In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.
The Second French Empire, his Western European model, had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian War by the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia.
The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.
In 1897, the shoal became a French possession, later being placed under the administration of a commissioner residing in Réunion in 1968.
In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.
Despite heavy casualties the Prussians attempted to storm the great battery, whilst the Danes, under Count Scholten, attempted to drive the French infantry out of the copses beyond the village.
As these elite French cavalry attacked, they were faced by five English squadrons under Colonel Francis Palmes.
In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

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