They met with many difficulties and many adventures, and became involved in political intrigues, Antoine especially exercising such influence as he possessed in favour of France and the Roman Catholic missionaries.

The first war which involved the Djiboutian armed forces, was the Djiboutian Civil War between the Djiboutian government, supported by France, and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).

Louis became involved in a war with Count Theobald of Champagne by permitting Raoul I, Count of Vermandois and seneschal of France, to repudiate his wife Eléonore of Blois, Theobald's sister, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, Eleanor's sister.

There are some 30 U. S. firms involved in franchising in France.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

Thus they were involved in the struggle for power within France as princes but they also had a religious authority over Roman Catholicism in France as King.

He later involved the Kingdom of France in the Second Crusade but his relationship with Eleanor did not improve.

This battle involved a complex set of alliances from three important states, the Kingdoms of France and England and the Holy Roman Empire.

However, Louis XIV's long reign saw France involved in many wars that drained its treasury.

France would soon be involved in another war, the War of the Grand Alliance.

Germany was much better prepared militarily than any of the other countries involved, including France.

Beyond membership in the European Union, France is also involved in many joint European projects such as Airbus, the Galileo positioning system and the Eurocorps.

France has also been actively involved against international terrorism.

The First Carnatic War extended from 1746 until 1748 and was the result of colonial competition between France and Britain, two of the countries involved in the War of Austrian Succession.

In 1798 under President John Adams, the U. S. and France unofficially went to war — the Quasi War, that involved naval warships and commercial vessels battling in the Caribbean.

It involved competition between France and Prussia over control of Luxembourg, which had become free of German control when the German Confederation was abolished at the end of the Seven Weeks War in 1866.

He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.

The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, involved the death of 1, 099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906.

In order to achieve this Bismarck kept Napoleon III involved in various intrigues whereby France might gain territory from Luxembourg or Belgium – France never achieved any such gain, but was made to look greedy and untrustworthy.

The Peace of Westphalia treaties involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III, of the House of Habsburg, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the free imperial cities and can be denoted by two major events.

Honorius soon became involved in the quarrel between King Louis VI of France and the French bishops.

His efforts to undo the mischief wrought in Rome by the long schism were almost entirely neutralized by a quarrel with his erstwhile supporter, Louis VII of France over the candidate for archbishop of Bourges, in the course of which that kingdom was laid under an interdict to press for the papal candidate, and by a struggle with the town of Tivoli in which he became involved.

Deliveries started in December 1997, and involved the buy back of the remaining 11 Mirage F1s by France that were later sold on to Spain., The current commander of the Qatar Emiri Air Force is Brigadier General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kumait Al Khayarin.

The Thirty Years ' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the major European powers.

In a delayed result of the Reformation, Denmark became involved in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) on the Protestant side.

Before Richelieu's ascent to power, most of Europe had become involved in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

Pomerania became involved in the Thirty Years ' War during the 1620s, and with the town of Stralsund under siege by imperial troops, its ruler Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Stettin, concluded a treaty with King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in June 1628.

In 1605 turned Protestant, became involved later in the Thirty Years ' War, and, after being forced to cede some of his territories to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, abdicated in favour of his son William V, his younger sons receiving apanages which created several cadet lines of the house, of which that of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg survived till 1834.

The Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ) of the German Protestant princes against the Holy Roman Emperor involved foreign powers and extended beyond German territory.

Thirty people were eventually convicted for the attempted coup, out of an initial 300 who were involved.

Like the Thirty Years ' War which also involved Sweden, under the surface, the dynastic struggles were rooted firmly in religious strife between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Maurice turned Protestant in 1605, became involved later in the Thirty Years ' War, and, after being forced to cede some of his territories to the Darmstadt line, abdicated in 1627 favour of his son William V ( 1602-1637 ), his younger sons receiving apanages which created several cadet lines of the house ( Hesse-Rotenburg, Hesse-Eschwege and Hesse-Rheinfels ), of which, with amalgamation, that of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg survived till 1834.

Charles I's first Parliament, known as the Useless Parliament, broke with tradition and granted the king tonnage and poundage for a year rather than life out of concern over the free-spending habits of Charles and Charles ' desire to become involved in the Thirty Years ' War on the continent.

Father Christmas-The Chicago Years, Father Christmas is shown to be heavily involved in gangland Chicago during the Prohibition era.

One of his first acts as Elector was the dismissal of the extremely unpopular prime minister, the Count Heinrich von Brühl, who had plunged Saxony into crisis, first with his failed economic policy, but particularly by his catastrophic foreign policy, which caused the Electorate to become involved in the Seven Years ' War.

Among other things, Oberth was involved in writing the study, The Development of Space Technology in the Next Ten Years.

Reportedly this decision was made after Kenneth Hyman of Seven Arts Productions – which had merged with Warners at the time and was involved with One Million Years B. C.

The conflict widened into the larger Seven Years ' War by 1756, which involved all of the major European powers.

Bitty Tuck: Rich, classy girl whom John was involved with during the New Years Party.

Johan's oldest son, Diederik Wier, became a jurist and diplomat, who in 1566-7, while employed by Willem IV van den Bergh, was involved in the " petitions of grievances about the suppression of heresy " by the Dutch nobility to Philip II of Spain, the rejection of which led to the Eighty Years ' War.

During the Seven Years ' War, Rodney was involved in a number of amphibious operations such as the raids on Rochefort and Le Havre and the Siege of Louisbourg.

Years later, the other players all said that Jackson had never been involved in any of the meetings with the gamblers, and other evidence has since surfaced that casts doubt on his role.

( Years earlier, König had been involved in a near fatal car accident while traveling to Cardinal Stepinac's funeral.

This development occurred during the reign of Edward III because he was involved in the Hundred Years ' War and needed finances.

During the Seven Years War, he and his regiment were involved in the Cherbourg-St. Malo operation.

The extinction of the Kingdom of Majorca was inevitable in the international context of the age characterized by different conflicts: the Hundred Years War, between France and England, the war of the benimerines, which involved Castile and the Crown of Aragon, and the attempts to make the Balearics a satellite state by the Genoese.

Years before the purchase Grigory Orlov had been romantically involved with a young Catherine the Great of Russia, an affair beginning while she was still merely Empress Consort of Russia, married to the Emperor Peter III of Russia.

Philip generally was preoccupied with matters in his own territories and seldom was directly involved in the Hundred Years ' War, although he did play a role during a number of periods such as the campaign against Compiègne during which his troops captured Joan of Arc.

Charles did not, however, enter the Anglo-French conflict then raging — the Hundred Years ' War — but his brother, Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont, got involved and died in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

The town was significantly involved in the Hundred Years ' War as well as the Wars of Religion.