Fortunately, by the time this message reached Washington, Shafter changed his mind, and instead renewed siege operations after demanding the Spanish surrender the city and garrison of Santiago.

Fortunately for Hopsonn the fireship, laden with snuff from the Spanish Indies, suddenly blew up, and a great cloud enveloped the English vessel, partly extinguishing the flames thus enabling the crew to control the blaze.

Fortunately, Spanish forces had regained enough of the military initiative to convince a politically divided United Provinces to sign a truce in 1609.

Fortunately the Spanish government reinforced the law which protected chimpanzees and a British couple called Simon and Peggy Templer started a rescue for confiscated chimpanzees.

Fortunately, she had run aground so that she screened the rear of Draper's camp from the Spanish cannon.

Fortunately an official quickly found a CD of the correct anthem, placating the Spanish and allowing the match to proceed.

Fortunately, I knew almost exactly what the will had said.

Fortunately for Herbert, Uppark had a magnificent library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including Plato's Republic, and More's Utopia.

Fortunately, the giraffes with long necks had a larger range of food choice ( based on height ) and thus lived longer and this trait was selected for through natural selection.

Fortunately for Saladin, al-Adil had his warships moved from Fustat and Alexandria to the Red Sea under the command of an Armenian mercenary Lu ' lu.

Fortunately he had started making a name for himself as a composer, although he frequently caused scandals with his forward-looking works.

Fortunately, Warner Bros. had enough of a backlog of cartoons and a healthy reissue program so that there was no noticeable interruption in the release schedule.

Fortunately, a system of aerating pipes at the bottom of the lake had been set up to dissipate the chemical, reducing it to almost nothing by the 29th, preventing further environmental destruction.

Fortunately for herself and for Russia, Elizabeth Petrovna, with all her shortcomings ( documents often waited months for her signature ), had inherited some of her father's genius for government.

Fortunately, one of the Hungarian prison guards had seen Fritz playing for Germany, and told them that Fritz was not German but Austrian.

Fortunately, Shearer herself " had no illusions about the image I saw in the mirror.

Fortunately, Bates ( Eric Blore ), Horace's meddling English valet, disguises himself as a priest and conducts the ceremony ; apparently, Horace had sent Bates to keep tabs on Dale.

Fortunately, the shooting schedule was budgeted for two weeks of post-production photography, so even though the first cut had " some of the free-est, funniest and most sophisticated material that Woody had ever created, and it hurt him to lose it ", late 1976 saw three separate shoots for the final segment, two of which appear in some form.

Fortunately for the Flyers, they had home-ice advantage as they advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals by winning Game 7 and in the process made history by becoming the first expansion team to win a playoff series over an original six team.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

Fortunately for Pitt, the king recovered in February 1789, just after a Regency Bill had been introduced and passed in the House of Commons.

Fortunately, although the dimensional distance prevented the Professor from telepathically contacting his students directly-although he could penetrate the dimensional barrier, his weakened powers were subsequently unable to access the complex minds of his students-he was able to make contact with Jeffery Saunders, the mentally handicapped grandson of a recently-deceased friend of his, whose mental state meant that he lacked the conflicting thoughts that had prevented the Professor reaching the X-Men.

Fortunately, the tornado struck immediately after the day shift had ended and casualties were minimal.

Fortunately, the Hubble telescope had been designed to allow in-space maintenance, and in December 1993, mission STS-61 carried astronauts to the Hubble to make corrections and change some components.

Fortunately, Chelsea had no publicly held long-term debt — thus, a solution to its problems could be explored in isolation of creditors.

Fortunately, after the war the county records were found intact in a cell in the jail, where they had been concealed by R. W.

Fortunately his superior, Father Abbot Dom Frederic, saw that Merton had a gifted intellect and talent for writing.

Fortunately, Scott's father had become acquainted with Howard Hughes and provided a letter of introduction for his son to present to the eccentric millionaire filmmaker.

Fortunately for Mayer, Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered he had lost most of his fortune in the fall, 1929 stock market crash, putting an end to the Loew's merger.

Fortunately for the British, the Germans were surprised by gunfire from an unexpected source: Canopus, which had been grounded as a guardship and was behind a hill.

Fortunately both the Republicans and America's chief Western allies now are joined behind the neutral Laos aim of the President.

Fortunately, it is the FHA which has arrived at this conclusion, for it means that cooling equipment of all kinds may now be included in a mortgage, and thus acquired with a minimum of financial stress.

Fortunately, most of the major churches, two of them now UNESCO World Heritage Sites, were rebuilt in the original style soon after the war.

Fortunately for Smith, upon first landing at what is now Cape Henry on 26 April 1607, unsealed orders from the Virginia Company designated Smith to be one of the leaders of the new colony, thus, perhaps, sparing Smith from the gallows.

" Fortunately, now computers keep track of bonds during a simulation.

Fortunately, the exceptional wealth of detail afforded by the trial transcripts, as well as a great deal of important contextual documentation, including both secondary and primary sources, is now readily available to everyone in English translation, on the web, via the pedagogical site The original French manuscripts are available on the website of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec via the database PISTARD ( catalogue code TL4, S1, D4136 ).

" Fortunately for posterity, he also preserved his father's manuscripts, and they are now in the British Library.

Fortunately they met Professor Patrick Doran of the National Institute of Higher Education ( now University of Limerick ) and Dr Edward Walsh, the Institute's President, who agreed to house a substantial part of the collection on a temporary basis.

Fortunately 60 percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control.

Fortunately, the nurse who took care of the infant prince ( and who happens to be Luiz's mother ), is now living in the mountains, married to " a highly respectable brigand ".

Fortunately, he never officially acted to take over the portfolio, since he was not willing to step on the toes of Mystryl ( the Netherese deity of magic now known as Mystra ), who was the unofficial keeper of the timestream in Faerûn.

Fortunately, much of the line of the former canal remained intact and there are now plans to re-open it as an amenity canal ; these plans have the support of local authorities.

Fortunately, much of the line of the former canal remained intact, and there are now plans to re-open it as an amenity canal ; these plans have the support of the local authorities.

Fortunately, populations in several rivers and impoundments in the northern half of the Murray-Darling appear secure for now.

Fortunately, 3 under-cover police officers, Mark Slaven, Bryce Perser and Asia Ho got all the 4 hostage students out without harm, and the Nazi Communists were put under arrest, and are now serving 9 years for conspiring terrorist acts, in Adelaide Gaol.

Fortunately however, Rothgo explains that even though the Nidus is no longer in his sole possession, he can now tap into its power whenever he desires and travel freely through time once again.