In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He met Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by painter Robert Venosa.

Robert II, as King of the Franks, met Emperor Henry II in 1023 on the borderline.

Frémont's California Battalion next moved south to the Mexican provincial capital of Monterey, where they met US Commodore Robert Stockton in mid-July 1846.

During her Hollywood career Davis dated many actors, including Clark Gable, Robert Stack, and Peter Lawford ; she later called Gable the nicest of the stars she had met.

Honorius travelled to Benevento, and after safeguarding the interests of Robert of Capua, he met Roger on the Pons Major, the bridge which crosses the Sabbato river near Benevento, on 22 August 1128.

Bradbury had just graduated from high school when he met Robert Heinlein, then 31 years old.

This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson.

He then moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he first met Charlie Patton and Willie Brown ( around this same time, he also met Robert Johnson ).

Theobald met with the Norman barons and Robert of Gloucester at Lisieux on 21 December but their discussions were interrupted by the sudden news from England that Stephen's coronation was to occur the next day.

Robert took Stephen back to Gloucester, where the king met with the Empress Matilda, and was then moved to Bristol Castle, traditionally used for holding high-status prisoners.

Around 1815, Truth met and fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm.

In 1832, she met Robert Matthews, also known as Matthias Kingdom or Prophet Matthias, and went to work for him as a housekeeper.

While Hume was writing the script, he and producer Robert Papazian, who had great experience in on-location shooting, took several trips to Kansas City to scout locations and met with officials from the Kansas film commission and from the Kansas tourist offices to search for a suitable location for " Hampton.

While at UCLA, he also met Robert E. Kahn, who was working on the ARPANet hardware architecture.

( 1970 ) in which vet Robert De Niro films pornographic home movies before deciding to become an urban guerrilla, The Strangers in 7A where a team of former paratroopers blow up a bank and threaten to blow up a residential apartment building, The Hard Ride ( 1971 ) and Welcome Home Soldier Boys ( 1972 ) in which returning vets are met with incomprehension and violence.

All this time the Normans had not ceased ravaging the country ; a brave man was needed to defend it, and finally towards 861, Charles the Bald entrusted it to Robert the Strong, but Robert met his death in 866 in a battle against the Normans at Brissarthe.

Negotiations from this time onwards were between Edward, who returned to England later in the year, and Eric, and excluded the Scots until Edward met with Robert Bruce and some of the Guardians at Salisbury in October 1289.

A fellow Marine by the name of Robert Ryan met Brooks and told him he was determined to play in a version of the book on screen.

" However, Kenneth Zucker and Robert Spitzer argue that GID was included in the DSM-III ( 7 years after homosexuality was removed from the DSM-II ) because it " met the generally accepted criteria used by the framers of DSM-III for inclusion ".

In 1142 Robert and other scholars met with Peter the Venerable, who was visiting Spain, and Robert set to work translating the Qur ' an into Latin.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

Malcolm met William at Abernethy and, in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle " became his man " and handed over his eldest son Duncan as a hostage and arranged peace between William and Edgar.

For example, Tony Blair met Leader of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met in 1908.

The media blitz was met with unprecedented success ; thanks in great part to the introduction of the Duncan Butterfly, the yo-yo was more accessible to the beginner than ever.

In his book Isadora, an Intimate Portrait, Sewell Stokes, who met Duncan in the last years of her life, describes her extravagant waywardness.

There, they met the Los Angeles Lakers again, split the series 2 – 2, and in Game 5, Duncan made a toughly defended jump shot which put the Spurs ahead by one point with 0. 4 seconds left to play.

At the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Festival Bromige met Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Duncan.

Davey enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1957 where he met the influential poetry theorist Warren Tallman and student writers George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Carol Bolt, and Fred Wah, and in 1960 the charismatic San Francisco poet Robert Duncan.

It was about this time that he met the poet Charles Harpur and the newspaperman William Duncan, then editor of the Weekly Register ; he mentions in his Fifty Years of Australian History that these two men became his " chief advisers in matters of intellectual resource ".

They met the band's former guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan in high school, and drummer Dan Konopka in college.

In the summer, David's nephew William fitz Duncan marched into Yorkshire and harried Craven ; on 10 June, he met and defeated an English force of knights and men-at-arms at the battle of Clitheroe.

Following a year abroad in Cambridge, where he met his future wife Kathy Duncan, he returned to Harvard, to the Medical School, accompanied by Kathy.

There Palmer met writers and artists who would leave an indelible mark on his own developing sense of a poetics, especially Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Clark Coolidge, with whom he formed lifelong friendships.

Duncan, who was working in Tokyo when the Korean War began, met a young Japanese photographer, Jun Miki, who introduced Duncan to Nikon lenses.

Duncan proposed a bond issue to fund the preparation of a large industrial site, but met immediate opposition from the city's conservative elements, which rejected government subsidies for business, and the bond proposal was defeated in a referendum.

It was as a player with the A's that La Russa first met catcher Dave Duncan, who would join his coaching staff in Chicago in 1983.

She met Raymond Duncan, brother of Isadora, at this same party, who congratulated her on a wonderful performance, and again she was back into her passion for dance.

Johnny Duncan entered the United States Army and was sent to the United Kingdom where he met and married his wife Betty in 1952.

A few weeks after Duncan met Lord Kilwillie's niece Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet via Molly's Dating Agency, they got together, however after he got a job with Hermione at Kilwillie Castle, he was not told the truth about a new Eco-Dome Hermione and her mother-Lady Dorothy were building, so he felt he could not trust Hermione any more and left her.

The roots of Wolfstone go back to when fiddler Duncan Chisholm met guitarist Stuart Eaglesham at a pub session.

" When they first met, Duncan immediately sensed that Adam was an Immortal.

He returned to Scotland in 1625, and met Duncan MacLeod, a fellow Immortal from the same clan, but nearly 75 years younger.