Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language.

Only a few weeks later the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson unexpectedly destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ( 1 – 3 August 1798 ).

Only the most basic infrastructure ( notably the Dakar-Niger Railway ) was constructed during the period of French Colonialism.

Only one U. S Navy vessel was captured by — and later recaptured from — French forces, the USS Retaliation.

Only Horst Söhnlein complied with the order ; the rest went underground and made their way to France, where they stayed for a time in a house owned by prominent French journalist and revolutionary, Régis Debray, famous for his friendship with Che Guevara and the focus theory of guerrilla warfare.

Only limited research was conducted on the topic until, in 1931, two French chemists isolated the glycosides that give stevia its sweet taste.

Only in the final sets of matches at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup are tie-breaks not played.

Only four national over-the-air television networks are currently licensed by the CRTC: the government-owned CBC ( English ) and Radio-Canada ( French ), French-language private network TVA, and a network focused on Canada's indigenous peoples, APTN.

Only Great Britain remained diplomatically opposed to the French Republic.

Only English and French were the Security Council's working languages ( Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Chinese were official but not the working languages ).

Only a few thousand French migrated to Canada.

Only in the last years of the nineteenth century, under the French protectorate, did the current name Tunisie French or Tunisiyya Arabic, ( Tunisia in English ), come into common use.

Only a few years later, the French Revolution began, which embraced many of the political ideas that the Patriots had espoused in their own revolt.

" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".

Only thereafter did the French feel safe enough to accede to Joan's request for a march on Rheims.

Only adults with French surnames were analyzed by the study.

Only Cherbourg held out: Charles of Navarre begged the English to send him reinforcements there but instead they seized it for themselves and garrisoned it against the French.

Only after the French occupation at the start of the 19th century was Terschelling united as one entity again.

Only 23 survivors of the 1st BEP, led by Captain Jeanpierre, managed to escape to French lines: it became the first French parachute battalion lost in combat, followed by the 3rd BCCP, of which only 14 soldiers returned unscathed.

Only the grenadier company wore bearskins while the other companies wore the standard tricorn headdress of the French infantry.

Only Russian Blues and the French Chartreux have this type of coat, which is described as thick and wonderfully soft to the touch.

Only the misplacement of Russian forces by Kutuzov over both Bagration's and Barclay's protest prevented the ruin of the French army that day, both the Prussian Staff Officer Karl von Clausewitz, the historian and future author of On War, and Alexander I of Russia noting that the poor positioning of troops in particular had hobbled the defense.

Until it closed in early 2011, a McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota claimed on its receipts to be the " World's Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru ," sending food from their strip-mall location to a drive-through in the middle of a parking lot.

Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.

Only one E-4B NEACP escapes in time, and the officials of the Eighth Air Force and STRATCOM are eliminated in the process.

Only with Launch of Saorview ( FTA DTT ) is 3e available Free to Air.

Only 357 were sold before The Judge was discontinued in February 1971, including 17 convertibles today the rarest of all GTOs, aside from the 1969 Ram Air IV convertible.

Only two US Air Service squadrons — the 17th and 148th Aero Squadrons — saw active service with the British, flying with them until November 1918, after which they were absorbed into the US Air Service.

Only the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has the 767 version, calling it the E-767.

Only some of Villa-Lobos ' music was actually used in the film ; much of the rest was later arranged as the secular cantata Forest of the Amazons, which Villa-Lobos recorded in stereophonic sound for United Artists Records with the Symphony of the Air.

Only after Stalin's death did he find himself back in favor and finally promoted to Air Marshal.

Only the MacBook Air weighs less, though wider and deeper, but considerably thinner making it the second smallest subnotebook overall.

Only with the help of the Royal Thai Air Force police, who had been instructed by King Bhumibol's privy council office to help him leave, did he evade death and get on a plane bound for London.

:- Only loss KB-50J 48-0065 ( 421st Air Refueling Squadron Detachment ) at Takhli RTAFB which crashed in Thailand on 14 October 1964, all 6 crewmen survived.

Only the French Navy and French Air Force use the title fusilier today.

Only three of the " A " model Stratofrtresses were built and all served solely as test aircraft for both Boeing and the Air Force.

Only Armed forces personnel in uniform in the three services namely Army, Air Force and Navy are called Troops.

Only personnel under flight orders are eligible to receive the strike / flight award of an Air Medal.

On 3 September 1978 an Air Rhodesia Viscount VP-WAS shot down near Kariba by nationalist guerillas ; Only eight people survived.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 concluded that Talwinder Singh Parmar " is now believed that he was the leader of the conspiracy to bomb Air India flights " Only Inderjit Singh Reyat who admitted to building the bomb, was convicted in the Air India bombing.

The lack of established design criteria for these aircraft led the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch to conclude in 2007 that " Only when precise reserve factors have been established for individual harness / wing combinations carrying realistic suspended masses, at load factors appropriate to the manoeuvres to be carried out, can these aircraft be considered to be structurally safe "