At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

The classic interpretation of blitzkrieg is that of German tactical and operational methodology in the first half of the Second World War that was often hailed as a new method of warfare.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

Drake was hailed as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the Earth ( and the second such voyage arriving with at least one ship intact, after Elcano's in 1520 ).

At his death, Washington was hailed as " first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen ".

Abraham is hailed as the first Hebrew and the father of the Jewish people.

By most accounts, he first hailed the flag as " Old Glory ," when he left harbor for a trip around the world in 1831-1832, as commander of the whaling vessel Charles Doggett.

Beating Federico Fellini's 8½ for first prize at the Belgium Film Festival, the film was hailed by foreign critics as a brilliant reworking of the Western genre.

Other critics and filmmakers hailed the originality of its unique rapid editing style, created for the first time in this film and ultimately becoming a Peckinpah trademark, and praised the reworking of traditional Western themes.

Although Harrison was not elected, his strength throughout the North was hailed by Anti-Masonic leaders because the party was the first to officially place his name in contention.

Xouvert was later also hailed as the first XFree86 fork in August 2003.

Guaraldi ’ s maternal grandfather hailed from Sicily and at least some part of his family emigrated first to New York before coming west.

Although Domitian was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus et deus ( master and god ), these titles never occurred in written form on official documents until the reign of Aurelian.

While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.

Bentham is widely regarded as one of the earliest proponents of animal rights, and has even been hailed as " the first patron saint of animal rights ".

An enigmatic person who has been hailed as a liberator against the Danes and denounced as a tyrannical ruler, brutally suppressing three uprisings in Dalarna-which had once been the first region to support his claim to the throne-one in Västra Götaland, and one in Småland, Gustav worked to raise taxes, end Feudalism and bring about a Swedish Reformation, replacing the pregoratives of local landowners, noblemen and clergy with centrally appointed governors and bishops.

It was first in Paris, and then Brussels and other European art centres, that Zuloaga was hailed by the reformers as the regenerator of Spanish national art and as the leader of a school.

It has been hailed as the first opera of the verismo school, in which sordid and brutal subjects are emphasised, with art reflecting life —" not idealised life but life as actually lived.

Notable among their contemporaries were the cultured and technically adroit French baritones Jean Lassalle ( hailed as the most accomplished baritone of his generation ), Victor Maurel ( the creator of Verdi's Iago, Falstaff and Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ), Paul Lhérie ( the first Posa in the revised, Italian-language version of Don Carlos ), and Maurice Renaud ( a singing actor of the first magnitude ).

Based on the character outline, puppeteer Caroll Spinney was inspired by the voice of a New York City taxi driver, hailed when going to the production studio ; when he first got in, the driver asked him " Where to, Mac?

The first American settlers hailed from Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Carolinas.

Had she limited her argument to these points instead of conjoining it to an argument about how Shakespeare couldn't have written them, there is little doubt that, instead of being dismissed as a crank and a madwoman, she would be hailed today as the precursor of the New Historicists, and the first to argue that the plays anticipated the political upheavals England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century.

French President Jacques Chirac stood alone beside Arafat's coffin for about ten minutes in a last show of respect for Arafat, whom he hailed as " a man of courage ".

Although he was initially labelled a Fauve ( wild beast ), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.

Simone Signoret (; 25 March 192130 September 1985 ) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest film stars.

Soutine, who had been virtually penniless in his years in Paris, immediately took the money, ran into the street, hailed a Paris taxi, and ordered the driver to take him to Nice, on the French Riviera, nearly 200 miles away.

Many English commentators were harsher, blaming the French for failing to fully engage in the battles and Rupert — having cautioned against the alliance in the first place — was popularly hailed as a hero.

When the French arrived in Poland the local people hailed them as liberators.

Thus, Henri could be mockingly hailed by republicans such as Georges Clemenceau as " the French Washington " — the one man without whom the Republic could not have been founded.

The Revolution of 1848 inflicted on him a final blow by overturning the regime of the Liberal bourgeoisie, whose triumph he had hailed and justified as the necessary outcome of the whole course of French history.

In 1789, the town enthusiastically hailed the French call for freedom and equality.

For a time Lyly was the most successful and fashionable of English writers, hailed as the author of " a new English ," as a " raffineur de l ' Anglois "; and, as Edward Blount, the editor of his plays, wrote in 1632, " that beautie in court which could not parley Euphuism was as little regarded as she which nowe there speakes not French.

Roscoe was also a political pamphleteer, and like many other Liberals of the day hailed the promise of liberty in the French Revolution.

During the decade of the 1840s the word " communist " came into general use to describe those who hailed the left wing of the Jacobin Club of the French Revolution as their ideological forefathers.

He was also hailed by the French New Wave as one of theirs.

In early November 1797 he arrived exhausted at Bordeaux, where he was hailed publicly as a ‘ Hero of the French Republic ’ and a ‘ Martyr of Liberty ’.

The reception in London was more positive than that in Paris, and the painting was hailed as representative of a new direction in French art.

Also short-lived was the Roman Republic of 1848-1849, which was crushed by a French Army called in help by the Pope Pius IX ( initially hailed by Mazzini as the most likely paladin of a liberal unification of Italy ).

While coherent, Laura voluntarily checked herself back into Shadybrook the year prior to her most recent relapse and signed paperwork originating from the French clinic the drug hailed from, which for legal reasons expressly forbade her doctors at Shadybrook from alerting Laura's family to any LS-49-related changes in her condition.

With Amants in 1895 he won a great success, and the play was hailed by Jules Lemaître as the Berenice of contemporary French drama.

Though the local newspapers hailed him as a returning war hero, the Continental Congress was less than pleased with his disobedience to orders and his loss of his original commission, which had been confiscated by the French during his brief stay in their prison.

) Louis Untermeyer wrote, " Prufrock, published in 1917, was immediately hailed as a new manner in English literature and belittled as an echo of Laforgue and the French symbolists to whom Eliot was indebted.

Edmé Bouchardon ( 29 May 1698 – 27 July 1762 ) was a French sculptor, esteemed in his day as the greatest sculptor of his time < ref > The noted antiquary and connoisseur, the comte de Caylus, who had followed Bouchardon's career closely since 1733 and hailed him as a modern Phidias, wrote a Vie d ' Edmé Bouchardon, ( Paris, 1763 ) that has been reprinted in Geneva 1973 ; Voltaire wrote to Caylus in 1740, '" Il me semble que vous méritiez de naître dans un plus beau siècle.