The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.

When the German motorized forces were met with a counterattack at Arras, British tanks with heavy armour ( Matilda I & IIs ) created a brief panic in the German High Command.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

On 19 March 1970 the East and West German Chancellors Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt met in Erfurt, the first such meeting since the division of Germany.

Here he met Alwine Glienke, a German woman from a Protestant family, whom he married in 1921.

In May the German National Assembly ( the Frankfurt Parliament ) met in Frankfurt to draw up a national German constitution.

An agent Conrad met when travelling in the Congo, Georges-Antoine Klein, could also have served as a model for Kurtz ( in German klein means " small " and kurz means " short ").

The people of Germany had demanded a constitution, so the Parliament, formed of elected members from various German states, met to form one.

On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Attolico to tell him that Poland's " rejection " of the " generous " German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

Admiral Miklós Horthy met with Hitler and Ribbentrop at Schloss Klessheim and was informed that he could either accept German occupation or see Hungary invaded and destroyed.

On 17 April 1941, after King Peter II and other members of the government fled the country, the remaining representatives of the government and military met with the German officials in Belgrade.

It was in Paris that, on 28 August 1844, Marx met German socialist Friedrich Engels at the Café de la Régence after becoming interested in the ideas that the latter had expressed in articles written for the Rheinische Zeitung and the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

Expenditure for the navy was too great to be met from taxation: the Reichstag had limited powers to extend taxation without entering into negotiations with the constituent German states, and this was considered politically unviable.

A joint German – Soviet parade was held in Lvov and Brest-Litovsk, while the countries commanders met in the latter location.

He accepted his appointment as one of Prussia's representatives at the Erfurt Parliament, an assembly of German states that met to discuss plans for union, but only in order to oppose that body's proposals more effectively.

German unification had been one of the major objectives during the widespread revolutions of 1848 – 49, when representatives of the German states met in Frankfurt and drafted a constitution creating a federal union with a national parliament to be elected by universal male suffrage.

He next dropped behind German lines in occupied Norway, where he met with Free Norwegian guerrillas and gathered information leading to the destruction of a German plant being used to develop atomic weapons.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

When they first met, Pasternak was translating the verse of the Hungarian national poet, Sándor Petőfi.

In the Kardomah Café, close to the newspaper office in Castle Street, he met his creative contemporaries, including his friend the poet Vernon Watkins.

This was the period in which he met the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, artists Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, and numerous other writers and artists with whom he later collaborated.

In 1918 he met the French poet Raymond Radiguet.

He probably first met the poet John Keats in the spring of 1816.

The Diary of Travel to Italy describes his journey to Venice, Trieste, and Ljubljana ( where he met the Slovene national poet France Prešeren ) in 1834.

Perhaps the poet was inspired by a famous singer he met in Veneto around 1350's.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

In New York he met fellow young poet, David Giannini, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for several months, where Giannini and Meyers co-founded " Genesis: Grasp ".

Scott met the blind poet Thomas Blacklock who lent him books as well as introducing him to James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems.

At the party he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Gonne was eighteen months younger than Yeats and later claimed she met the poet as a " paint-stained art student.

In 1909, Yeats met the American poet Ezra Pound.

In 1967 Heidegger met with the Jewish poet Paul Celan, a concentration camp survivor.

While living at his rented villa on Lake Merritt in Oakland, London met poet George Sterling and in time they became best friends.

The young Fionn met the leprechaun-like druid and poet Finn Eces, or Finnegas, near the river Boyne and studied under him.

He met the poet H. D.

A jail term seemed certain, but with the help of friends ( including Norman Mailer ), Trocchi was smuggled over the Canadian border where he was given refuge in Montreal by poet Irving Layton and met up with Leonard Cohen.

He met the first serious love of his life, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, in 1910, when he was 26.

In 1913, Man Ray met his first wife, the Belgian poet Adon Lacroix, in New York.

She met the young poet, Nikolay Gumilev on Christmas Eve 1903, who encouraged her to write and pursued her intensely, making numerous marriage proposals from 1905.

He was also a friend of the Dutch poet Willem Bilderdijk, whom he met twice, in 1824 and 1826, at Bilderdijk's home in Leiden.

He is often considered a member of what is known as the Muiderkring, a group of leading intellectuals gathered around the poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, who met regularly at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam.