Meanwhile Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior to French colonization, at the same time that they have contributed to the preservation of the authentic values of Algeria.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

Meanwhile, the French feudatories on the left wing had thoroughly defeated the Imperial forces opposed to them.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

Meanwhile, on 24 June, the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, variously referred to as the French Constitution of 1793 or Constitution of the Year I.

Meanwhile, James IV of Scotland ( despite being Henry's other brother-in-law ), activated his alliance with the French and declared war on England.

Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.

Meanwhile, on 24 June the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, the French Constitution of 1793.

Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria.

Meanwhile, Ponsonby's cavalry brigade, including the renowned Scots Greys, have chased the French all the way back to their lines but have become disorganized and their horses blown.

Meanwhile, the French retreat has quickly deteriorated into a rout, and Napoleon's marshals physically force the Emperor himself to withdraw from the battlefield.

Meanwhile, French suffered equivalent losses of 16, 000 soldiers, but still enjoyed huge numerical superiority.

Meanwhile, a French secret agent steals a letter addressed to a military officer in the German embassy.

Meanwhile, the global Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain weakened Spain's hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Spanish America.

Meanwhile, in the Peninsular War, Arthur Wellesley renewed the Anglo-Portuguese advance into Spain just after New Year in 1812, besieging and capturing the fortified towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and in the Battle of Salamanca ( which was a damaging defeat to the French ).

Meanwhile, the messages brought back by Edward's agent Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and others grew steadily worse: Isabella had publicly snubbed Stapledon ; Edward's political enemies were gathering at the French court, and threatening his emissaries ; Isabella was dressed as a widow, claiming that Hugh Despenser had destroyed her marriage with Edward ; Isabella was assembling a court-in-exile, including Edmund of Kent and John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond.

Meanwhile Saxony became the principal arena of war and Dresden the midpoint of the French army movements.

Meanwhile, Kate makes it on her own to the Hôtel George V where she encounters new levels of French sarcasm and rudeness from the concierge.

Meanwhile, the 22 Floréal-coup in France undermined Delacroix, because it inspired more sympathy by French foreign minister Talleyrand for the Dutch opposition members who demanded the ambassador's recall.

Meanwhile, the American Eisenhower administration was outraged at the tripartite aggression, the British and French abandonment of international diplomacy, and its timing during the crisis in Hungary.

Meanwhile, French paratroopers of the 2nd Regiment of Colonial Paratroopers under the command of Colonel Chateau-Jobert jumped on the water treatment factory South of Port Said.

Meanwhile the French mouaire had mutated into a verb, moirer, meaning ' to produce a watered textile by weaving or pressing ', which by 1823 had spawned the adjective moiré.

Meanwhile, Louis XI had proved masterful at destabilising the Duchy: Edward IV had been detached from his alliance, Charles ' reputation and banking credit had been undermined by Louis, and Burgundian trade was choked by French embargoes.

Meanwhile, Erwin Rommel had surrounded five divisions of the French 1st Army near Lille.

Meanwhile, Louis Philippe was forced to live in the shadows, avoiding both pro-Republican revolutionaries and Legitimist French émigré centres in various parts of Europe and also in the Austrian army.

Meanwhile, general Kutrzeba and his staff officers had suspected, even before the German invasion, that it would be the neighbouring Armies that would bear the German attack, and had developed plans at an offensive towards the south, to relieve Army Łódź.

Meanwhile the Sassanid Persians conquered Mesopotamia and in 611 they overran Syria and entered Anatolia, occupying Caesarea Mazaca.

Meanwhile, the IDF ground forces quickly overran the Egyptian army in Sinai and were about to reach Alexandria.

Meanwhile the land forces overran Thrace and continued into Achaia as far south as Sparta ; the invading Goths and Heruli sacked Athens, crossed the isthmus, sacked and burned the lower part of Corinth, and advanced to Argos and Sparta, ravaging the countryside along the way and burning the two cities.

Meanwhile, Tilly's army easily overran the Palatinate.

Meanwhile, Britain's Felixstowe and Rotterdam in the Netherlands emerged as major ports.

Meanwhile, Louis XV in person, with 90, 000 men, prepared to invade the Austrian Netherlands, and took Menin and Ypres.

Meanwhile, Colonel General Kurt Student, commander of the Fallschirmjaeger, the German airborne forces, received orders from Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, to immediately move from Berlin and proceed to the Netherlands, where he would collect all available units and build a front near the Albert Canal, which was to be held at all costs.

Meanwhile, back in the Netherlands, the Dutch State church had also been transformed by the Enlightenment, a change represented in the minds of those opposed it, by the loss of any meaningful profession of faith as requisite for adult church members, and the singing of hymns ( in addition to psalms ) and other innovations in worship and doctrine.

Meanwhile particularly urbanised member states where agriculture comprises only a very small part of the economy such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are much smaller beneficiaries and the CAP is often unpopular with the national governments.

Meanwhile, Dutch friends of Divine gave him two bulldogs in the early 1980s, on which he doted and named Beatrix and Klaus after the Queen Beatrix and her husband Prince Claus of the Netherlands.

Meanwhile he had been well received in England ; and he afterwards travelled in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, acquainting himself with the condition and prospects of the Roman Catholic Church.

Meanwhile in southern Europe the Duke of Savoy with 29, 000 men ( substantially exceeding Catinat's number who had sent some troops to the Netherlands ) invaded Dauphiné via the mountain trails shown to them by the Vaudois.

Meanwhile the archducal regime ensured the triumph of the Catholic Reformation in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Meanwhile, William takes the free troops from the border on the Spanish Netherlands to England, precipitating the Glorious Revolution, including the expulsion of James II.

Meanwhile, in Germany the final council communist groups had disappeared in the maelstrom and in the Netherlands the International Communist Group ( GIK ) was moribund.

Meanwhile in Netherlands, hardcore fans became tired of funcore and felt betrayed by Elstak's subsequent chart forays.

Meanwhile, strong German infantry ( supported by the 9th Panzer Division ) had smashed through the so-called Peel-Raam Stelling and now marched rapidly through the southern province of Noord-Brabant, threatening to establish contact with the bridge head at Moerdijk and to enter ' Fortress Holland ' from the south, effectively isolating the Netherlands from Belgium and France.

Meanwhile earthships have been built or are being built in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, Estonia and Czech Republic.

Meanwhile, messages of support were flooding in from all over the world: France ( President François Mitterrand ) ; the Soviet ( President Mikhail Gorbachev ); Hungary ( the Hungarian Socialist Party ); the new East German government ( at that time the two German states were not yet formally reunited ); Bulgaria ( Petar Mladenov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria ); Czechoslovakia ( Ladislav Adamec, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Václav Havel, the dissident writer, revolution leader and future president of the Republic ); China ( the Minister of Foreign Affairs ); the United States ( President George H. W. Bush ) ; West Germany ( Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher ); NATO ( Secretary General Manfred Wörner ); the United Kingdom ( Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ); Spain ; Austria ; the Netherlands ; Italy ; Portugal ; Japan ( the Japanese Communist Party ); and the Moldavian SSR.

Meanwhile the Netherlands Television Service ( NTS ) was createed in 1951, two years after public television returned to the airwaves.

Meanwhile, WUT has established cooperative relations for students exchange and scientific research with more than 100 foreign universities and research institutions from USA, UK, Japan, France, Australia, Russia and the Netherlands, etc.

Meanwhile he helped founding the SP in Oss and, in 1975, became the Netherlands ' youngest councillor ever.

Meanwhile, the Netherlands ' local ally Arung Palaka led a ground attack.

Meanwhile Nederlandse Onderwijs Televisie ( NOT ) ( Netherlands Educational Television ) began operations on the 27 June 1962, evolving from the Netherlands Education Film board in The Hague.