No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.

The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

Similarly, Eritrea and Yemen had a border conflict between 1996 to 1998 over the Hanish Islands and the maritime border, which was resolved in 2000 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

The Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe after World War II in response to a call issued by Europeans from all walks of life who had gathered at the Hague Congress ( 1948 ).

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.

COP 6 negotiations resumed July 17 – 27, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, with little progress having been made in resolving the differences that had produced an impasse in The Hague.

He brought together all he had maintained in his Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem ( A Finishing Touch to the Hague Conference )— his major book.

Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.

By this time van Eyck had assembled a workshop and was involved in redecorating the Binnenhof palace in The Hague.

At The Hague, Charles had a brief affair with Lucy Walter, who later falsely claimed that they had secretly married.

On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U. S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U. S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia.

The Dutch ambassador in France, Schimmelpenninck, who acted as the Dutch plenipotentiary, vainly protested that the Treaty of The Hague had guaranteed the Dutch colonies, and that France had promised not to make a separate peace.

Another potentially important consequence of the peace might have been that a number of provisions of the Treaty of The Hague, that had been conditional on a peace, like the reduction of the French army of occupation, would now have become operational.

Montgomery replied that he had just received a signal from London that something needed to be done to neutralise the V-2 launch sites around the Hague ( which were bombarding London ) and that the plan must therefore proceed.

All of these objects eventually ended up in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, after some had initially been held in The Hague.

To their enormous embarrassment however on 7 March a large English delegation of 246 arrived at The Hague, headed by Oliver St John, to negotiate the conditions under which the Dutch Republic might unite itself with England, sent by Cromwell who had taken the earlier suggestions quite too seriously.

Those English noblemen in exile not fighting with her brother Charles in Scotland had mostly gathered in The Hague, which had become a Royalist bulwark, while it had been for many years an Orangist stronghold.

At the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907, a draft convention for a permanent Court of Arbitral Justice was written, although disputes and other pressing business at the Conference meant that such a body was never established, owing to difficulties agreeing on a procedure to select the judges.

In order for the administration to maintain control over city matters, The Hague never received official city status ( although it did have many of the privileges normally granted only to cities ).

There has never been any large-scale industrial activity in The Hague, with the possible exception of the fishing harbour in Scheveningen.

The move caused some controversy in Serbia, as Belgrade regarded him as a war criminal, though he was never indicted by the Hague tribunal.

Contrary to popular belief, Scheveningen never was an independent municipality ; even in the Middle Ages it was part of the same administrative region as The Hague ; the region had a special status within the county of Holland because of the presence of the Count of Holland.

This agreement never entered into force, but formed part of the basis for the codification of the laws of war at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.

A fragment of the second book later appeared in print at The Hague ( 1659 ), but Gassendi never composed the remaining five, apparently thinking that the Discussiones Peripateticae of Francesco Patrizzi left little scope for him.

Until William Hague in 1997, Chamberlain was the only twentieth century Conservative leader never to become Prime Minister.

Hague never adapted his methods to the new groups.

Hague further suggested that the Conservative Party would never agree to such constitutional reforms that were " based on no comprehensive plan or principle.

In June 1940, the USSR occupied and illegally annexed the three Baltic states — an action in violation of the Hague Conventions ( 1899 and 1907 ) and numerous bi-lateral conventions and treaties signed between the USSR and Baltics — and never recognized by most Western states.

It is assumed that she was murdered because of her knowledge of things in the beau monde of The Hague, but this was never proven.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

Huygens is not known ever to have made a clock himself, however ; he contracted the construction of his designs to Salomon Coster in The Hague.

Ramush Haradinaj, a former KLA commander, served briefly as Prime Minister of Kosovo before he turned himself in to the ICTY at The Hague to stand trial on war crimes charges, and was later acquitted.

Early 1672, Downing, who already had made himself profoundly hated by the Dutch population when he was an ambassador in the previous war, had to flee The Hague in fear of his life.

There is good reason to suppose that Fuller was at the Hague immediately before the Restoration, in the retinue of Lord Berkeley, one of the commissioners of the House of Lords, whose last service to his friend was to interest himself in obtaining him a bishopric.

In 1940, he won election as Governor of New Jersey, running in reaction to the political machine run by Frank Hague, but broke with family tradition by declaring himself a Democrat.

Later, he distanced himself from the Hague School and today he is generally regarded as an Amsterdam Impressionist.

Van Gogh visited him in hospital, but Breitner did not return the visits when van Gogh himself was hospitalised two months later, and they did not meet again until the following July when van Gogh was on the verge of leaving The Hague and Breitner spending more time in Rotterdam than the Hague.

After the Rye House Plot to assassinate both Charles and James, Monmouth exiled himself to Holland, and gathered supporters in The Hague.

In July 2009, Mr Taylor himself told at his trial, at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague, that US CIA agents had helped him escape from the maximum security prison in Boston in 1985.

The composer worked at the score of Manon at his country home outside Paris and also at a house at The Hague once occupied by Prévost himself.

In the spring of 1913, having gained confidence in his own ability to assure himself a place on the commission, Hague supported the renewed effort to change the Jersey City government from the Mayor-Council model to a commission model under the recently-adopted Walsh Act.

In the same year, Hague cemented his control of the Hudson County political machine by securing for himself the leadership of the Hudson County Democratic Organization Executive Committee.

These enforcement acts went as far as Hague himself marching across local Vaudeville stages personally directing the shut down of " girlie shows.

Hague himself became very wealthy, owning a $ 125, 000 summer home in Deal, living in a large apartment in the best building in the city, and able to give a $ 50, 000 altar to a local Catholic church.

He also had the support of a significant faction of Republicans which dated to his initial election as mayor, when he cut a deal with then-Governor Walter Edge in which Edge effectively ceded North Jersey to Hague in return for keeping South Jersey for himself.

Hague proclaimed himself leader of the New Jersey Democratic Party, and Edwards allowed him to recommend dozens of appointments to high state offices.

A 1930 ordinance gave the public safety commissioner — Hague himself — the power to turn down permits for meetings if he felt it necessary to prevent " riots, disturbances or disorderly assemblage.

On 29 September 2011, while seeking to exonerate himself, Uhuru Kenyatta put up a spirited fight as he was being cross-examined by ICC Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo in the Hague, denying any links with the outlawed Mungiki sect.

After holding his court at The Hague and Utrecht, Louis Napoleon moved to Amsterdam, and converted the Town Hall into a royal palace for himself.

In 1648 he accompanied the prince in his unsuccessful naval expedition, and returned with him to The Hague, where violent altercations broke out among the royalist leaders, Colepeper going so far, on one occasion in the council, as to challenge Prince Rupert, and being himself severely assaulted in the streets by Sir Robert Walsh.

Despite Osborn's efforts to distract from the indictment of the group by putting Rhodes on trial at The Hague for war crimes, Rhodes and his team foiled Osborn's scheme with Rhodes himself transferred to his clone body after saving the life of a child.

Though he was not disposed to undervalue himself, neither were others ; Talleyrand considered him the ablest British diplomat of the age and certainly his achievement at the Hague was to sustain such a judgement ".