In the 16th century, Brussels and Halle were fighting again, this time over religion, as Calvinistic Brabant tried to overtake Catholic Hainaut.

During the 1989 Grand Prix, Senna tried to overtake Prost to keep his Championship hopes alive, only for Prost to shut the door as he had stated before the race, saying he would not be giving up the position simply for McLaren not to be embarrassed by a double retirement.

They also tried to overtake Šibenik, but the defenders successfully repelled the attack by JNA, in the Battle of Šibenik.

On the last lap, Hill tried to overtake Lehtinen.

* July 28, 1996: In the first lap of the Marlboro 500, Emerson Fittipaldi tried to overtake Greg Moore by the third place in turn one, but they had a contact and Emmo's car was launched to the outside wall.

While driving on a highway, I saw a Ferrari ahead and tried to overtake it.

This allowed Mario Andretti to move right on to Piquet's tail, as he desperately tried to overtake Reutemann.

On the penultimate lap, Ligier driver Philippe Streiff tried to overtake his team-mate Jacques Laffite for second place and, as result of this manoeuvre, Streiff's front wheel axle was severely damaged.

On the second start, Senna led Mansell away, but during lap one the Briton tried to overtake the Brazilian.

At the start of lap 48 Mansell tried to overtake Senna, the cars collided and both drivers were out.

On lap 14 Mansell tried to overtake Senna at the last chicane but the car ended off track and spun and came to a stop on the main straight.

The McLarens of Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard made good starts from the front row of the grid, but Ferrari's Michael Schumacher, starting third, also had a good start and tried to overtake second place Coulthard.

However, when Andretti tried to overtake the Austrian, he hit him instead, and both were out on the spot.

On lap 21, Rosberg caught up with Pironi and tried to overtake on the inside.

On the 17th lap of the 1928 Italian Grand Prix held at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Materassi lost control of his Talbot 700 when he tried to overtake Giulio Foresti ’ s Bugatti T35C on the main straight at over 200 km / h.

Streiff defied belief when he tried to overtake his team mate with just over a lap to go and collided with him.

Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

" Signal guns were fired to bring in the foraging parties and picquets as the French and Bavarian troops tried to draw into battle-order to face the unexpected threat.

Nevertheless, the exhausted French were unable to follow up their advantage, and the two cavalry forces tried to regroup and reorder their ranks.

Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line facing south, stretching from Offus to Mont St André, floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.

The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart.

When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

The Spanish Army tried to fight the French invasion in the traditional " set-piece " style of warfare.

A strong friend of the French Revolution, Monroe tried to assure France that Washington's policy of strict neutrality did not favor Britain.

Ribbentrop also tried unsuccessfully to arrange for the Vichy French troops in North Africa to be formally placed under German command.

In 1720 the Villasur expedition from Santa Fe tried to reach the French on the Mississippi but was defeated by the Pawnee in eastern Nebraska.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

* 1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.

The French art scene was in a process of change, as radical artists such as Courbet and Manet tried to break away from accepted Academic tradition and the Impressionists were in their formative years.

He was excited by the French Revolution, and in 1789 – 1790 he tried to incorporate these revolutionary ideals into the Knights ' Room at Christiansborg Palace.

The remainder of the war featured a siege of Paris, the city was ” ineffectually bombarded ”; the new French republican regime then tried, without success, to relieve Paris with various hastily assembled armies and increasingly bitter partisan warfare.

To prevent the Austro-Hungarian problems of different nationalities within one state, the government tried to Germanize the state's national minorities, situated mainly in the borders of the empire, such as the Danes in the North of Germany, the French of Alsace-Lorraine and the Poles in the East of Germany.

According to the terms of the treaty, the U. S. was to pay the stockholders of the French company that had tried to build the canal across Panama the sum of $ 40, 000, 000.

A plea of autrefois convict ( Law French for " previously convicted ") is one in which the defendant claims to have been previously convicted of the same offence and that he or she therefore cannot be tried for it again.

A plea of autrefois acquit ( Law French for " previously acquitted ") means the defendant claims to have been previously acquitted of the same offence, on substantially the same evidence, and that he or she therefore cannot be tried for it again.

During Babrak Karmal's later years, and during Najibullah's tenure, the PDPA tried to improve their standing with Muslims by moving, or appearing to move, to the political centre.

The CPV lost its power to appoint or dismiss provincial-level officials in the 1990s ; this is proven by the fact that Võ Văn Kiệt tried to wrestle this power back to the centre during the 1990s without success.

As his centre gave way, he ordered one of his officers to conduct his sons Charles and James to safety while he himself tried to rally his infantry.

On the streets the party members played a leading role in the struggle against the British Union of Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mosley whose Blackshirts tried to emulate the Nazis in anti-Semitic actions in London and other major British cities – though the party centre tried to stop them taking part in the defence of Cable Street from the Blackshirts, such that they had to operate under the cover of the ' Ex-Servicemen's Association ', and on the day, the party put out a leaflet for another demonstration in Trafalgar Square to draw members away from the East End.

The East German government tried to establish a socialistic industrial centre in the Bitterfeld region.

After the defeat, Somerset and other Lancastrian leaders took refuge in Tewkesbury Abbey but they were forced from sanctuary two days later, tried and executed immediately, at the Cross in the centre of Tewkesbury.

Late in the third period, he won the face-off that led to Canada's second-most famous goal and tied up with the Russian player who tried to check Mario Lemieux at centre ice, allowing Lemieux to take Gretzky's pass in the slot for the series winner.

Antigonus, stationed in the centre, tried to rally his men, hoping for Demetrius's return.

The school has repeatedly tried to get the public right of way along Burton Walks revoked, citing security concerns ; this connects the council estate of Shelthorpe with Loughborough town centre.

They included three who tried to escape through the toilets, 27 who were found by exit K and turnstiles six to nine at the rear centre of the stand and two elderly people who died in their seats.

On October 3, demonstrators removed police cordons around the parliament and, urged by their leaders, took over the Mayor's offices and tried to storm the Ostankino television centre.

In 1959, he was tried as a centre forward, scoring twice in one game against Bolton Wanderers and a hat-trick against Chelsea in February 1960.

On the right wing, Wrede ’ s forces tried to cross the single bridge over the Kinzig River to reinforce the centre, but many drowned trying to cross the bridge.

In the centre, the Williamite infantry under Hugh Mackay tried a frontal assault on the Jacobite infantry on Kilcommadan Hill.

This could only be done if he recommended no change at the centre as: the diehards were opposed to any Indian responsibility at the Centre: the Conservative leadership would oppose any responsibility at the Centre which did not build in conservative-pro-British control ( as they tried to do in the Government of India Act 1935 ; and, Labour would oppose the type of gerrymandering at the Centre necessary to meet the requirements of the Conservative leadership.

He was also tried at inside centre by John Connolly for one test against Wales 2006 but the experiment was not regarded a success and he never played there again.

On December 7, 1638, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, who was subsidized by France, conquered the city, which Ferdinand II and General Reinach had defended well, and tried to make the centre of a new territory.

On 7 June, the wind blowing from the northwest, Rupert tried again and arranged his own squadron of the Red in the van, the French squadron of the White commanded by Jean II d ' Estrées in the centre, and Sir Edward Spragge's squadron of the Blue in the rear.

The allied rear tried to do likewise with their centre and van, but its formations remained very confused.

The Leningrad Front tried to shift the centre of weight southwards.

The Communists were committed to a " Popular Front " tactic, and tried to engage other parties from the left and the centre, including established pre-war politicians.

The Jesuits took over the centre and tried to push Ordona ’ s economy by reclaiming part of its territory and allowing families to settle here.

In 1914 the infirmary had been fully removed from the site, and after several years in which the City Council tried to decide how to develop the site, it ended up being left and made into the largest open green space in the city centre.