With his Armée d ' Espagne of 278, 670 men drawn up on the Ebro, facing a scant 80, 000 raw, disorganized Spanish troops, the Emperor announced to the Spanish deputies: Starting in October 1808 Napoleon led the French on a brilliant offensive involving a massive double envelopment of the Spanish lines.

Starting in the 20th century, dam construction blocked off hundreds of miles of salmon-spawning streams, such as the upper Feather and American Rivers, and the entirety of the Pit and upper Sacramento rivers.

Starting in 1896 he launched hundreds of weather balloons from his observatory in Trappes, France.

Starting from one, the number of fissions can theoretically double a hundred times in a microsecond, which could consume all uranium or plutonium up to hundreds of tons by the hundredth link in the chain.

Starting in 1933, the Lomaxes, father and son, traveled tens of thousands of miles, endured many hardships, exercised great patience and tact to win the confidence and friendship of hundreds of singers in order to bring to the Library of Congress records of the voices of countless interesting people they met on the way.

Starting in about 1870, Vance gave a speech hundreds of times he called " The Scattered Nation ," which praised the Jews and called for religious tolerance and freedom amongst all Americans.

Starting from his position as American consul in Baghdad in 1898, Banks bought hundreds of cuneiform tablets on the market in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire and re-sold them in small batches to museums, libraries, universities, and theological seminaries, several in Utah and the American Southwest and across the United States.

Starting with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, in the Outer Planes Appendix of the Monster Compendium, the Type I-VI designation of Demon types was dropped, and the name Balor was then used to refer to that entire breed of demon as a whole, and their numbers were increased dramatically from only six in existence to perhaps hundreds of thousands, and they were usually no longer given individual names in print, instead merely being referred to as " a Balor demon " or the like, and their individual significance was drastically reduced.

Starting in the late 19th century, Chinese workers were used to construct hundreds of miles of levees throughout the delta's waterways in an effort to reclaim and preserve farmland and control flooding.

Starting with the rule of the People's Republic of China in 1949, all women were freed from compulsory family roles.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

Starting in 2002, the development process was reformed to better share technologies and expertise, and all of the individual studios were gradually restructured into bigger departments responsible for different tasks.

Starting in the 1950s, these precepts were modernized in the People's Republic of China so as to integrate many anatomical and pathological notions with scientific medicine.

Starting from the political purges in the Soviet Union during the Thirties, similar “ brainwashing ” techniques were intermittently and less systematically used by most Stalinist regimes of the twentieth century.

Starting third baseman Ken Keltner and outfielder Ray Mack were both drafted in 1945 taking two more starters out of the lineup.

Starting with Telstar Pong clone based on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976, there were 14 consoles released in the Telstar branded series.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

Starting in 1756, seven regiments of Light Dragoons were raised.

Starting in 2002, following the entry into force of the Bologna Accords, the university switched to the bachelor / master structure ( students graduating in 2002 were given both an old-style engineering title and a new master's title ).

Starting in 1209 additional crusades were called for by Konrad of Masovia, who sought more to conquer Prussian territory than actually convert the indigenous Prussians.

Starting with épée in 1936, side-judges were replaced by an electrical scoring apparatus, with an audible tone and a red or green light indicating when a touch landed.

Starting from 1700, nineteen artificial islands with fortresses were built in the gulf by Russia.

Starting in 1019, Albanian dioceses of the Byzantine rite were suffragans of the independent Archdiocese of Ohrid until Dyrrachion and Nicopolis, were re-established as metropolitan sees.

Starting in 1984, the government launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive a wedge between the villagers and the guerrillas in the remote areas of two provinces of Kurdistan in which Kurdish guerrillas were active.

Starting with At War with the Army ( 1950 ), Martin and Lewis were the stars of their own vehicles, in fourteen additional titles at Paramount, ending with Hollywood or Bust ( 1956 ).

Starting in the 16th c. parts of Kazakhstan were annexed by the Russian Empire, and what remained was gradually absorbed into Russian Turkestan, starting in 1867.

Starting in 1942, they were also mounted on various British, Canadian and U. S. Lend-Lease trucks, in which case they were sometimes referred to as BM-13S.

Starting with Cadmus et Hermione, Lully and his librettist Quinault created tragédie en musique, a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent.

Starting out with 15-year-old aluminum boats, Powerboat P1 boats evolved dramatically through the decade to the point where the mono-hull twin-engine boats were kicking out around 1800 hp.

Starting in 2004, object databases have seen a second growth period when open source object databases emerged that were widely affordable and easy to use, because they are entirely written in OOP languages like Smalltalk, Java or C #, such as Versant's db4o ( db4objects ), DTS / S1 from Obsidian Dynamics and Perst ( McObject ), available under dual open source and commercial licensing.

Starting around the 15th century, new algorithms based on infinite series revolutionized the computation of, and were used by mathematicians including Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Starting from 1952, works were held in the Moscow-based Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering ( headed by Sergei Lebedev ) on automated missile defense system which used a " computer network " which calculated radar data on test missiles through central machine called M-40 and was interchanging information with smaller remote terminals about 100 — 200 kilometers distant.

Starting with this game, through Super Bowl XXXVII, the Super Bowl logo was painted at the 50-yard line, and the teams helmets were placed on the 30-yard lines.

Starting with macrofossil deposited in glacial clay found in Scania in 1871, Nathorst investigated postglacial development in flora and vegetation.

Starting at the centre of the fibre are the thickening layers of the secondary wall deposited one after the other.

Starting with the player who caused the merger to happen, each player may either sell his shares in the acquired chain, trade in two shares of the acquired chain for one share of the acquiring chain, or hold on to his shares of the acquired chain.

Starting in 1941, the British developed the " en portee " method of mounting an anti-tank gun ( initially a 2 pounder ) on a truck.

Starting in approximately the 1970s into the present day analytical chemistry has progressively become more inclusive of biological questions ( bioanalytical chemistry ), whereas it had previously been largely focused on inorganic or small organic molecules.

Starting in 1991, the US Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to review the scientific literature on Agent Orange and the other herbicides used in Vietnam, including their active ingredients and the dioxin contaminant.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

Starting work on its next Home Rule Act, it had to plan for a growing loss of morale in the RIC with an interim solution until the Act was ready.

* Starting with the 2012 season, the ball is placed on the 25-yard line following a touchback on a kickoff.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

Starting in the 1990s a new wave of books started to appear on critical psychology, the most influential being the edited book Critical Psychology by Dennis Fox and Isaac Prilleltensky.

The late Jeff Sarli, a blues upright bassist, said that, " Starting in the 1950s, they began to reset the necks on basses for steel strings.

Starting in 1987, NHK began full-scale experimental broadcasting on two channels using satellite-to-audience signals, thus bringing service to remote and mountainous parts of the country that earlier had experienced poor reception.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name " The Wizard ", was a recurring guest DJ on " The Electrifying Mojo " radio show on WJLB.

Starting in July 1636, from the country of the lower Meuse, he raided far and wide, and even urged the cardinal infante, who commanded in chief, to " plant the double eagle on the Louvre.

* In Cedric The Entertainer's Starting Lineup, Cedric speculates on having a black president.

Starting in 1968, Palestinian militants of various affiliations began to use southern Lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on Israel.

Starting in 2003, the Libyan government restored normal diplomatic ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, " The Libya Model ", an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides .< ref > Hirsh, Michael, ( 11 May 2006 ), < u >" The Real Libya Model "< u >, Newsweek.

Starting on December 17, 1659, Henry Vane representing the Parliament, Major Saloway and Col. Salmon with powers from the officers of the army to treat with the fleet, and Vice-Admiral Lawson met in negotiating a compromise.

Starting as a local program on New York-New Jersey superstation WWOR-TV in the fall of 1987, it expanded into national syndication in early 1988.

Starting with the Western embargo on the Yugoslavian common market, and ending with the Greek embargo on Macedonia over the country's name.