Meanwhile, his generals defeated the Franks and these operations were directed to clearing Gaul of Germanic invaders ( Franks, and Burgundians ), allowing Probus to adopt the titles of Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.

Meanwhile, XIII Corps would prevent the Axis from moving troops north to reinforce the coastal sector.

Meanwhile letters had arrived from the revolutionary committee and were read to the troops by Herminius and Horatius.

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

Meanwhile, Italian troops began to pour into the sultanate in anticipation of this operation.

Meanwhile his troops paused to eat breakfast.

" Meanwhile, King Saud gradually came to resent Nasser's popularity among the Saudi people and his references to Saudi oil as belonging to all the Arabs ; when Hussein requested military assistance from Saud, he complied, sending 4, 000 troops to Jordan as a protective measure.

Meanwhile, al-Badr and his partisans were receiving increasing support from Faisal of Saudi Arabia to reinstate the kingdom, convincing Nasser to dispatch Egyptian troops to strengthen the new government on 6 October.

Meanwhile, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16, 000 American advisors / soldiers in 1963 to 550, 000 combat troops in early 1968, as American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down.

Meanwhile, members of the Committee contacted Tang and suggested a plan for three-day cease-fire, during which the Chinese troops could withdraw without fighting while the Japanese troops would stay in their present position.

Meanwhile, Jefferson requested authorization from Congress to raise 30, 000 troops from the current standing army of 2, 800.

Meanwhile, Naples had declared a state of siege, and on September 6 the king gathered the 4, 000 troops still faithful to him and retreated over the Volturno river.

Meanwhile, the Thracian city of Abdera is sacked by Roman and Pergamese troops.

Meanwhile, China had no ability to ferry troops across the 100-mile wide Taiwan Strait and conquer the island.

Meanwhile Philip's phalanx had reached the summit, and after joining with their light troops and cavalry which he placed on his right wing, Philip had his phalanx charge down the hill into the oncoming legionaries.

Meanwhile, Artaxerxes ' troops took the Greek encampment and destroyed their food supplies.

Meanwhile, cannon shots were exchanged on 10 September 1627 between La Rochelle and Royal troops.

Meanwhile, the lateness of the arrival of Russian troops prevented them from saving the Austrian field armies, so the Russians withdrew to the northeast to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units.

) Meanwhile, although it had stated consistently that it would not send U. S. ground forces to Bosnia, in December 1994 the Clinton administration expressed willingness to commit troops to help rescue UN peacekeepers in Bosnia if they were withdrawn.

Meanwhile, Napoleon threatened Bennigsen from the south with Marshal Pierre Augereau's VII Corps and Ney's troops.

Meanwhile, Junot sent in two central columns but these were forced back by sustained volleys from troops in line.

Meanwhile reconnaissance by underwater demolition teams revealed clear landing beaches for assault troops on Leyte.

Meanwhile, XXX Corps was unable to advance north as quickly as anticipated and failed to relieve the airborne troops according to schedule.

Meanwhile, on the 5th Army's right flank, U. S. VI Corps ( comprising U. S. 34th and 45th Infantry Divisions ) had attacked into the mountains but made little progress until reinforced by the mountain troops of the French Expeditionary Corps, recently arrived in Italy ; they attacked again on 15 December.

Meanwhile spring had passed well into summer.

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Meanwhile Zadok, of the house of Eleazar, had been made High Priest.

Meanwhile, in the garden, Fredrik and Carl-Magnus reflect on how difficult it is to be annoyed with Desiree, agreeing " It Would Have Been Wonderful " had she not been quite so wonderful.

Meanwhile, the courtesans from the house of Marcus Lycus – who had been recruited as mourners at " Philia "' s ersatz funeral – have escaped, and Lycus sends his eunuchs out to bring them all back, adding to the general pandemonium.

Meanwhile the Allies had once again attacked the Bavarian stronghold at Lutzingen.

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 it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

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

Meanwhile, also in 1859, he had been made professor ordinarius of theology and of Biblical paleography, this latter professorship being specially created for him ; and another book of travel, Aus dem heiligen Lande, appeared in 1862.

Meanwhile, the Browns unexpectedly had Cleveland to themselves ; the NFL's Cleveland Rams, who had continually lost money despite winning the 1945 NFL championship, moved to Los Angeles after that season.

Meanwhile, Murbella collapses under the pressure of Bene Gesserit training, giving in to " word weapons " that the Bene Gesserit had planted to undermine her earlier Honored Matre identity.

Meanwhile von Salza had to abandon his hope to establish an Order's State in the Burzenland region of Transylvania, which had led to an éclat with King Andrew II of Hungary.

Meanwhile, Dr. Boylston had inoculated 242 people, with only six resulting in death.

Meanwhile he had his first divorce.

Meanwhile Hewlett Packard ( HP ) had been developing a pocket calculator.

Meanwhile, Francisco Pizarro's brother, Juan Pizarro, had arrested Inca Manco Inca Yupanqui, further complicating Almagro's plans as it heavily increased the dissatisfaction of the Indians submitted to Spanish rule.

Meanwhile in Hungary a small-scale revolt had broken out in May and was fast gaining momentum.

Meanwhile, IBM began to worry that it was losing control of the industry it had created.