To the consternation of the French, the Gens d ' Armes were pushed back in terrible confusion, pursued well beyond the Maulweyer stream that flows through Blenheim.

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 remaining French vessels: the ships of the line Guillaume Tell and Généreux and the frigates Justice and Diane, formed up and stood out to sea, pursued by Zealous.

Duvivier and the twenty men retreated up the Northeast River ( Hillsborough River ), pursued by the New Englanders until the French troops received reinforcements from the Acadian militia and the Mi ' kmaq.

The next Nguyễn emperors, Minh Mạng, Thiệu Trị, and Tự Đức brutally suppressed Catholicism and pursued a ' closed door ' policy, perceiving the Westerners as a threat, following events such as the Lê Văn Khôi revolt when a French missionary, Fr.

The Russians broke and many died as they were pursued by the reinvigorated French cavalry for about a quarter of a mile.

The French pursued for several days and found the Russians drawn up for battle at Eylau.

By early February the Russian army was in full retreat relentlessly pursued by the French.

The French pursued Wellington, but the result was only a brief cavalry skirmish in Genappe just as torrential rain set in for the night.

The French pursued the fleeing Russians and a significant battle developed around Pułtusk on December 26.

The gun teams fled, pursued by French cavalry, while their whole infantry line advanced westward.

The two French began rapid flight pursued by the Spanish cavalry.

The character was also pursued by the authorities, in his case mainly by a French police inspector named Gerard.

The Germans were pursued by the French and British, although the pace of the Allied advance was slow — a mere a day.

During the late 1680s and 1690s, the French pursued colonization of central North America not only to promote trade, but also to thwart the efforts of England on the continent.

On the day of Möckern ( October 16, 1813 ) Blücher was made a field marshal, and after the victory he pursued the French with his accustomed energy.

The Russians broke and many died as they were pursued by the reinvigorated French cavalry for about a quarter of a mile.

The Germans actively pursued a strategy of attrition in the Battle of Verdun, the sole purpose of which was to " bleed the French Army white ".

Edward the Bruce ( Norman French: Edward de Brus ; Medieval Gaelic: Edubard a Briuis ; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Eideard or Iomhair Bruis ; 1280 – 14 October 1318 ), sometimes modernised Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland.

He faced great challenges in achieving this because the region was under European, specifically French and British, control and other Arab leaders of the time were hostile to his ideas as they pursued their own political aspirations for power.

This stands true for the years after the Phanariote-Ottoman period, at the beginning of the 19th century, when Romanians had a favourable historical context and chose the Western way of life, mainly French which they pursued steadily and at a very fast pace.

As for the other world powers, Germany remains fragmented, with no suggestion that Prussia will eventually form the core of a unified nation as it did in our own world in 1871, which may be due to French sabotage analogous to that pursued in the case of the fragmentation of the United States noted above.

The US VI Corps together with units from the French II Corps pursued and tried to cut off the German forces on their way toward the town of Dijon, while the Germans planned to prevent another Montélimar with a defensive shielding by the 11th Panzer Division.

The French pursued.

Copps earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and English from King's University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, and pursued further studies at McMaster University in Hamilton and the University of Rouen in France.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

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.

The French were now occupying Gascony and Flanders on the technical grounds that their rulers had forfeited them by a breach of the feudal contract.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

The famous old French and Spanish buildings with their elaborate wrought iron balconies and the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter present an Old World scene.

But they brought back few pelts to pay their debts, and soon French trade in the region was at an end.

They lacked time to prepare the Congo, as the British and French had prepared their colonies.

Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

They specialize in out-of-the-way items and old French music naturally occupies a good deal of their attention.

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

The Cinépolis Galerías Diana and the Teatro Juan Ruíz de Alarcón show French and French literary figures give talks on their specialised subjects.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

** French Americans and their " New World " regional identities such as:

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy of the United States paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle.

The Paolists combining with the royalists defeated the French in two pitched battles and Napoleon and his family went on the run, hiding by day, while the Paolists burned their estate.

That he sustained defeat in 1809 was due in part to the great numerical superiority of the French and their allies, and in part to the condition of his newly reorganized troops.

By 1700, approximately 20 percent of Berlin's residents were French, and their cultural influence on the city was immense.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.