Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.

Meanwhile, the Eighth Army stalled south of Mount Etna in the face of strong German defenses.

Meanwhile, the Eighth Doctor's ' earlier ' stories were concluded and retired from the main range in 2007, with the release of The Girl Who Never Was.

Meanwhile, to the west of the Eighth Army on the other side of the Apennine mountains, Italy's central mountain spine, the U. S. Fifth Army had also been fighting its way north.

Meanwhile, her fiancé, Wang Dachun, has joined the Eighth Route Army and fought the Japanese invaders.

Meanwhile, Zaphod ( who does not appear in the book ) is attempting to meet Zarniwoop once more, convinced that the Total Perspective Vortex ( from Fit the Eighth ) was not just his imagination.

Meanwhile, Wöhler began moving his Eighth Army out through the escape route created through Nyíregyháza.

Meanwhile, the Eighth Air Force VIII Ground Air Support Command, the forebear of the re-born Ninth Air Force had designated Membury for use by its reconnaissance units and technicians arrived in August 1942 to prepare the base for personnel who were en route on the RMS Queen Elizabeth.

Meanwhile, Army captain John C. Frémont led settlers in northern California to overthrow the Mexican garrison in Sonoma ( in the Bear Flag Revolt ).

Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe continued to defend German – occupied Europe against the growing offensive power of RAF Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces.

Meanwhile, the group's U. S. Third Army, under Lieutenant General George S. Patton, moved eastward towards the Saar.

Meanwhile, the German defenders would be spread out over trying to contain the pockets of airborne forces, from the Second Army in the south to Arnhem in the north.

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

Meanwhile, during the French Revolutionary Wars the French Army stopped floggings altogether.

Meanwhile, 17 divisions of the German Seventh Army, under Max von Boehn, aided by the Ninth Army under Eben, attacked the French Sixth Army led by Jean Degoutte to the west of Reims ( the Battle of the Mountain of Reims ()).

Meanwhile, operations of the Army of the Rhin-et-Moselle progressed more successfully for the French.

Meanwhile, all people in the area who have been affected by the byrus fungus are rounded up by the Army, with the intention that they will later be executed.

Meanwhile, Schobert's 11th Army was advancing north-eastwards from Bessarabia.

Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese established the three-man fireteam concept as the three-man cell when they organized a regular army, and its organization seemed to have been disseminated throughout all of Asia's communist forces, perhaps the most famous of which are the PAVN / NVA ( People's Army of Vietnam / North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.

Meanwhile, the French force, now stationed in Bologna was reorganised into the Army of Naples and placed under the nominal command of Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte.

Meanwhile, the Prussians had created a 4th Army, and marched it to the southern flank of Sedan, while the 3rd Army dug in North of Sedan.

Meanwhile, the British Army that was supposed to advance up the Hudson River to meet Burgoyne, went, instead, to Philadelphia, in a vain attempt to end the war by capturing the American capital city.

Meanwhile, the Continental Congress was creating a Continental Army.

Meanwhile, the Technical Director of the German Army Rocket Center, Wernher von Braun, was jailed at P. O.

Meanwhile, many Igorot and Cordilleran men joined the Philippine Commonwealth Army under the U. S. Military Command.

Meanwhile the Earth Federal Army, which has been fighting the Zeon in the region, receive reinforcements in the form of Ensign Shiro Amada, newly named commander of the 08th MS Team.

Meanwhile I myself was not yet saved.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.

Meanwhile, the Dutch assault on Ramillies was gaining pace.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

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 British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

Meanwhile, Live Through This was an immense commercial and critical success, receiving rave reviews from major music periodicals and going certified gold.

Meanwhile, individual FARC members initially joined the UP leadership in representation of the guerrilla command, though most of the guerrilla's chiefs and militiamen did not demobilize nor disarm, as that was not a requirement of the process at that point in time.

Meanwhile, Paul Brown Stadium was built for the 2000 season using private and public money.

Meanwhile, a human spaceship that was sent out to space long ago when the planetary winter began crashes in some foreign planet and the local civilization buries all evidence of the accident.

Meanwhile, Nadir Khan made sure his return to Afghanistan was impossible by engaging in a propaganda war.

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

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

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

Meanwhile, the king was having trouble sleeping, and had some histories read to him.

Meanwhile, Draper was forced to move to Europe to earn a living.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

Meanwhile, the Hanseatic League was gaining in power, threatening Scandinavian commerce.