Harassed by French artillery each time he redeployed his forces following a French attack, his infantry reserves exhausted and fearing that his shaky left flank was about to be charged by French cavalry, General von Alvensleben sent a message to the commander of the nearby 12th Cavalry Brigade, Major-General Friedrich Wilhelm Adalbert von Bredow, demanding that he silence French General François Canrobert's artillery and forestall a French cavalry charge with one of his own.

Harassed state park officials often have more campers than they know what to do with.

Harassed due to the directions of his studies, Rabelais petitioned Pope Clement VII and was granted permission to leave the Franciscans and enter the Benedictine order at Maillezais, where he was more warmly received.

Harassed by Black Seminoles along the route, the army found the villages on the Suwannee empty.

Harassed mercilessly and excluded by his peers because of this trait, Rudolph manages to prove himself one Christmas Eve after Santa Claus catches sight of his nose and asks him to lead his sleigh for the evening.

Harassed by both Song and the Jiaozhi in modern Vietnam, the Zhuang leader Nong Zhigao led a revolt in 1052 for which he is still remembered by the Zhuang people.

Harassed by both Song and the Jiaozhi in modern Vietnam, the Zhuang leader Nong Zhigao led a revolt in 1052 for which he is still remembered by the Zhuang people.

Harassed by the security forces, he was entrusted with organising a mass action campaign in Langa near Cape Town.

Harassed urban dwellers fled to the walled estates of the wealthy to avoid taxes, military service, famine and disease.

Harassed by the massive Turkic influx, known in Georgian history as didi turkoba, or the Great Turkish Invasion, from 1079 / 80 onward, George was pressured into submitting to Malik-Shah to ensure a precious degree of peace at the price of an annual tribute.

Skills, or " Knacks ", are made up by players, with oddly descriptive names like " Drive Like a Maniac ", " Fire Raygun ", or " Avoid Being Harassed by Authority Figures " recommended.

She occasionally performs on the lecture circuit with a show based on her experiences with wildlife, titled Harassed by Hippos and Battered by Cod: A Humble Way to Make a Living.

Many Bessarabians who fled to Romania before the advancing Red Army were eventually caught by Soviet security forces ; a high percentage of these were shot or deported, blamed as collaborators of Romania and Nazi Germany.

Her marriage to Ernst suffered a further blow in 1897, when Victoria returned home from a visit to her sister Queen Marie of Romania and reportedly caught Ernst in bed with a male servant.

For the next two years, he tried to assure the neutrality of Romania, which was caught up between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Almost all of Bulgaria's 500, 000-man standing army was positioned against these two countries, on two fronts – western and southern, while the borders with Romania and the Ottoman Empire were left almost unguarded.

The Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked into Bulgaria, while Romania and the Ottoman Empire also attacked Bulgaria and gained ( or regained ) territory.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 when Bulgaria attacked its erstwhile allies in the First Balkan War, Serbia and Greece, while Montenegro, Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervened later against Bulgaria.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

When Ribbentrop finally got around to announcing his decision, the Hungarian delegation who had expected Ribbentrop to rule in favour of Romania broke out in cheers while the Romanian foreign minister Mihail Manoilescu fainted.

Later that year, Argentina and Turkey severed ties with Germany while Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria all joined the Allies and declared war on the Reich.

There are 14 locally-owned banks, while the two remaining ones are from Russia and Romania.

In July 2012, Gilliam disclosed that his next film, while denying that it would be Don Quixote, would be shot in Bucharest, Romania, but refused to give any details.

Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

Herăstrău is located in the north of the city, around Lake Herăstrău, and is the site of the Village Museum, while the Botanical Garden is the largest of its kind in Romania and contains over 10, 000 species of plants, many of them exotic ; it was once a pleasure park for the royal family.

In September 1940 with the return of Southern Dobruja ( the Cadrilater ) by Romania to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova, 80, 000 Romanians were compelled to move north of the border, while 65, 000 Bulgarians living in Northern Dobruja were forced to move into Bulgaria.

As of 2009, 96. 91 % of the population was Italian while the largest immigrant group came from East Asia and other European nations mostly from Ukraine and Romania.

Grilled, mashed and mixed with onions, tomatoes and spices make the Indian and Pakistani dish baingan ka Bhartha or gojju, similar to salată de vinete in Romania, while a mix of roasted eggplant, roasted red peppers, chopped onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots, celery and spices is called zacuscă in Romania or ajvar in Croatia and the Balkans.

The western part of Moldavia is now part of Romania and the eastern part belongs to the Republic of Moldova, while the northern and south-eastern parts are territories of Ukraine.

This is also the case in Brazil, which groups its primary administrative divisions ( estados ; " states ") into grandes regiões ( greater regions ) for statistical purposes, while Russia uses экономические районы ( economic regions ) in a similar way, as does Romania and Venezuela.

In the replays, Switzerland ousted the team of Germany, to which some Austrian players had been added for political reasons, with a score of 4 – 2, while Cuba managed to advance to the next round at the expense of Romania.

In the 1983 movie The Keep, Hermes Trismegistus ( Scott Glenn ) battles his ancient foe Molesar in the keep that was his prison, when Wermacht troops unwittingly release him while subjugating Romania in 1941.

The Soviets ' 1940 annexation of Bessarabia and part of Northern Bukovina to create the important agricultural region of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( while other Romanian territories were converted into the Chernivtsi Oblast and Izmail Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR ) became a point of tension between Romania and the Soviet Union, especially after 1965.

In Netherlands, Argentina, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Romania, Uruguay, and Sweden, Christmas presents are opened mostly on the evening of the 24th, – this is also the tradition among the British Royal Family, due to their mainly German ancestry – while in Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, English Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, this occurs mostly on the morning of Christmas Day.

In December 1947 King Michael abdicated and left Romania at the request of the communist-dominated government, while Parliament proclaimed the country a republic.

Imber wrote the first version of his poem in 1877 while being hosted as a guest by a Jewish scholar in the city of Iasi, Romania.

Under the treaties of San Stefano and Berlin, Romania received Northern Dobruja while the newly restored principality of Bulgaria received the smaller Southern part of the region.

Liberals were of the generation that had truly brought Romanians in Transylvania to the country's attention ; on the other hand, Catargiu had signed an agreement with the Austrian Monarchy that awarded it commercial privilege in Romania – while quieting its suspicion towards Romanian irredentism.

The three newly independent states subsequently proclaimed themselves kingdoms: Romania in 1881, Serbia in 1882 and Montenegro in 1910, while Bulgaria proclaimed full independence in 1908 after uniting with Eastern Rumelia in 1885.

In the winter and spring of 1941, the Soviet troops ( NKVD ) opened fire on many groups of locals trying to cross the border into Romania ( for more, see: Fântâna Albă massacre ).

He went to Bucharest, Istanbul, Cairo, Naples, Paris ( 1913 – 1914 ), and Switzerland ( where he settled for a while, trying to cure his tuberculosis ); Istrati's travels were marked by two successive unhappy marriages, a brief return to Romania in 1915, when he tried to earn his living as a hog farmer, and long periods of vagabondage.

Around 1907, the dramatist was also interested in the activities of Christian Rakovsky, who was trying to make his way back into Romania, and closely followed news of street clashes between his supporters and the authorities.

This interpretation corresponds with the general view of the situation of the Romanian lands in the 11th century, with the natives living in collections of village communities, united in various small confederacies, with more or less powerful chiefs trying to create little kingdoms, some paying tribute to the various militarily dominant nomadic tribes ( see Romania in the Middle Ages ).

Like his fellow activist Scarlat Callimachi, he was set free by the National Legionary Government — at a time when the fascist Iron Guard, who allied Romania with Nazi Germany, was trying to preserve good relations with the Soviet Union.

The Communist regime which was installed in late 1947 outlawed the PNŢ altogether, alleging that Mihalache and Maniu had been trying to flee the country from the airfield in Tămădău, and had planned to give Romania a capitalist government-in-exile.

He was killed by Yugoslav border guards while trying to escape to Romania.