The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

Allenstein was sacked by Swedish troops in 1655 and 1708 during the Polish-Swedish wars, and the town's population was nearly wiped out in 1710 by epidemics of bubonic plague and cholera.

In July 1739 he made his first contribution to the field of mathematics, pointing out the errors he had detected in L ' analyse démontrée ( published 1708 by Charles René Reynaud ) in a communication addressed to the Académie des Sciences.

Other expeditions were sent out in 1708, 1709 and 1711 with considerable bloodshed but little success.

Laid out and surveyed in 1708 it embraced most of Hilltown and Rockhill Township.

He was then out of office until again sent to Venice, as ambassador, but during his time there in 1707 and 1708, this negotiations ( to persuade Venice to adhere to the Grand Alliance ) were again unsuccessful.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708, Vologda lost its functions as an administrative center and was included as a town of Archangelgorod Governorate.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, it was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

The administrative division reform of 1708 was carried out by Russian Tsar Peter the Great in an attempt to improve the manageability of the vast territory of the Russian Empire.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Staraya Russa was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Beloozero was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ) and named one of the towns constituting the governorate.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, it was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, it was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great, dividing Russia into governorates.

The Spanish held both cities until 1708, when they were driven out by Turkish Bey Mustapha Ben Youssef ( also known as Bouchelaghem ).

The family, however, did not die out in Cowden until 1708, when John Tichbourne was buried there.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Veliky Ustyug was explicitly mentioned as one of the twenty towns included into Archangelgorod Governorate.

In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Ingermanland Governorate ( known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate ).

Determined to blot out his family ’ s prior disgrace, he entered the army at an early age and was made proprietary colonel of a dragoon regiment in 1708.

Two marriages between women were recorded in Cheshire, England, in 1707 ( between Hannah Wright and Anne Gaskill ) and 1708 ( between Ane Norton and Alice Pickford ) with no comment about both parties being female.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

Sweden had its own calendar between 1700 and 1712, so in the Swedish calendar the battle of Lesnaya took place on September 29, 1708.

The building was restored between 1708 and 1718.

Sometimes, as in the case of Hamburg in 1708, the situation was considered sufficiently serious to warrant the dispatch of an Imperial commissionner with troops to restore order and negotiate a compromise and a new city constitution between the warring parties.

The Church of St. Clara was built between 1708 and 1711 according to a design of Christoph Dientzenhofer.

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon ( 28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723 ), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is perhaps best known for the claims of his cross-dressing while in office.

He was also the first British Governor of Minorca, which he had captured from the Spanish, between 1708 and 1711.

The Battle of Oudenarde ( or Oudenaarde ) was a key battle in the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 11 July 1708 between the forces of Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire on the one side and the French on the other.

He assumed the additional surname of Leslie and sat in the British House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1708 and 1710.

This change appears to have happened sometime between the mid-eighteenth century, when the Jesuit missionary Pierre Potier ( 1708 – 1781 ) documented the Petun dialect of Wendat in Canada, and the mid-nineteenth century.

The New Schloss Simmern, built between 1708 and 1713 as the Palatine Oberamtmann ’ s seat

He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708.

The city ruled by Ottoman Empire between 1672-1699 and became part of the Russian Empire ( the new name of Muscovy since 1708 ) after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, along with the rest of the Right-bank Ukraine.

At least eight Purim plays were published between 1708 and 1720 ; most of these do not survive ( at least some were burned in autos da fe ), but one survives in the Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten ( 1714 ), a collection by Johann Jakob Schudt ( 1664 – 1722 ).

In 1708 the castle was one of the headquarters of the Swedish Army of King Charles XII of Sweden, which led to its partial devastation in the effect of a battle between the Swedes and the Russian forces.

It was built between 1708 and 1721.

He held the office of Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King William III between 1691 and 1702 ; was Colonel of the 4th Dragoons between 1693 and 1710 ; and was made a Privy Counselor in 1708 by Queen Anne.

* A battle between Charles XII of Sweden with Peter the Great on June 25, 1708 won by Charles.

Shadwell's version was revived in 1701, in 1702 through 1704, in 1706 through 1708, in 1710, in 1712 through 1717, and more than 20 times between 1729 and 1747.