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.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

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.

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.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin became interested in constructing a " Zeppelin balloon " after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, where he witnessed the French use of balloons to transport mail during the early part of the war.

French use of an observation balloon marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle.

* August 2 – Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, a French inventor of the hot-air balloon and a balloonist ( b. 1744 )

The first military use of a hot air balloon happened during the battle of Fleurus ( 1794 ) where the French used the balloon l ' Entreprenant as an observation post.

Léon Gambetta, the leading figure in the provisional government, organized new French armies in the countryside after escaping from besieged Paris in a balloon.

Dispatched from Paris as the republican government's emissary, Léon Gambetta passed over the German lines in a balloon inflated with coal gas from the city's gasworks, and organized the recruitment of new French armies.

Additionally, aerial surveillance came into use for the first time when the French used a hot-air balloon to survey Coalition positions before the Battle of Fleurus, on 26 June 1794.

In 1794, during the Battle of Fleurus, the French Aerostatic Corps balloon L ' Entreprenant remained afloat for nine hours.

French officers used the balloon to observe the movements of the Austrian Army, dropping notes to the ground for collection by the French Army, and also signalled messages using semaphore.

The first, and so far only, planetary balloon mission was performed by the Space Research Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the French space agency CNES in 1985.

For a variety of reasons, including the fact that the French government chose to put a proponent of hydrogen in charge of balloon development, interest in hot air balloons was largely superseded by gas balloons over the following decades.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

His father took him back to England after he caught pneumonia after ascending in a balloon to see the French Army of the Loire in action.

Jean-Baptiste Biot ( 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862 ) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

After the disaster at Sedan, Paris was besieged and French troops outside the city started an attempt at resupply via balloon.

The French balloon gun appeared in 1910, it was an 11-pounder but mounted on a vehicle, with a total uncrewed weight of 2 tons.

He emerges in Dresden, Prague, Halle and finally in Nuremberg, where he staged a Great Allegorical Musical Festivity in Two Acts celebrating the balloon ascent of the French aviation prioneer Jean Pierre Blanchard ( 3 November 1787 ).

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

" Observation et histoire: Race chez Amédée Thierry et William F. Edwards " in L ' Homme 153 ( in French )

L ' Histoire des Gaulois pt iii, chapter II ( in French )

* 1861 – Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L ' Esperance.

In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros ' Morane-Saulnier Type L. Unfortunately the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he was provided had an erratic rate of fire and it was impossible to synchronize it with a spinning propeller.

The French Foreign Legion (, L. E.

The new armed forces were formed by incorporating some of the former French soldiers, after a careful screening process to determine political reliability, with members of the former territorial Gendarmie to form the People's Army of Guinea ( L ' Armee Populaire de Guinee ).

After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.

Some scholars, for example A. Rousseau and L. Doutreleau, translators of the French edition ( 1974 ), consider that Irenaeus sometimes uses gnostikos to simply mean " intellectual ", as in 1. 25. 6, 1. 11. 3, 1. 11. 5, whereas his mention of " the intellectual sect " ( Adv.

* L ' En Dehors current French individualist anarchist magazine and website

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

* 1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l ' Isle, French chemist ( b. 1736 )

It derives from the Latin lyncea lynx, with the letter L confused with the definite article ( Italian lonza, Old French l ' once ).

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au coeur de l ' action clandestine des commandos au MI6, L ’ Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-915960-27-3 ).

Although some believe that the word ' louvre ' may refer to the structure's status as the largest in late 12th century Paris ( from the French L ' Œuvre, masterpiece ) – or to its location in a forest ( from the French rouvre, oak ) – one finds in the authoritative Larousse that it derives from an association with wolf hunting den ( via Latin: lupus, lower Empire: lupara ).

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

Biot's study, initiated by the French Academy of Sciences, was compelled by a meteorite fall of thousands of meteorites on April 26, 1803 from the skies of L ' Aigle, France.

* Lechevallier M., L ' Industrie lithique de Mehrgarh ( Pakistan ) Lithic industry of Mehrgarh ( Pakistan ) ( French ).

In 2006, Cruz became spokesmodel for the French beauty company, L ' Oréal, to promote products such as the L ' Oréal Paris hair dye Natural Match and L ' Oreal mascara products.

With " Le Cimetière marin " and " L ' Ebauche d ' un serpent ," it is often considered one of the greatest French poems of the twentieth century.

* Arrington, French L. " The Indwelling, Baptism, and Infilling with the Holy Spirit: A Differentiation of Terms ".