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French and Bavarians
What was left of the German assault troops ( Bavarians and Alpen Korps ) was further thinned out by less than sixty French machine gunners, led by a lieutenant Kleber Dupuy, who had emerged from the fort's ruins and taken positions on its superstructure.
The French and Bavarians had been driven almost to the Rhine when Noailles and the king came to battle.
Hohenlinden was chosen to commemorate Napoleon Bonaparte's battle at Hohenlinden, Germany, in which the French were victorious over the Austrians and Bavarians.
Pressed by the French and Bavarians to the west and Hungarian rebels to the east, Austria faced the real possibility of being forced out of the war.
The palace's construction was originally intended to be a gift to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough from a grateful nation in return for military triumph against the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim.
But the Bavarians and the French found it difficult to gain control of the territory, with Tyrolean sharpshooters occupying high places along the roads, blocking roads and setting off avalanches to harm the occupying army.
The French and Bavarians lost 1, 000 men.
A French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau won a decisive victory over the Austrians and Bavarians led by Archduke John of Austria.
The allied army, mainly consisting of Dutch and Austrian troops, but also with considerable British and Prussian contingents, was led by Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, while the French and a contingent of Bavarians were commanded by Villars and Marshal Boufflers.
The Battle of Freiburg ( August ) was desperately contested, but in the end the French army won a great victory over the Bavarians and Imperialists, commanded by Franz Baron von Mercy.
The desperately fought battle of Freiburg against Franz von Mercy's Bavarians ( 3, 5 and 9 August 1644 ) proved the chief event of the first campaign, after which the French successfully besieged Philippsburg.
When the French and Bavarians counterattacked the next night, the Tyroleans fought them in the city until the Tyroleans won on the morning of the 13th.
The fighting continued to spread to the south of the town, and the 8th Infantry Division was sent to reinforce the Bavarians fighting at La Moncelle, where they had attempted to mount a breakthrough of the French defense.
This led to a brief rally for the French, who drove back the artillery around La Moncelle and pressed the Bavarians and the Saxons.
In the Thirty Years ' War it suffered greatly ; in the War of Austrian Succession it was heavily bombarded by the Prussian forces ; and in 1807 it was captured by the French and Bavarians.
The entrenched Bavarians led by Franz von Mercy retreated after three separate days of being assaulted by the French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Duc d ' Enghien and marshal Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, and the French then went on to capture the city of Freiburg.
Churchill was given this palace in honour for his victories over the French and the Bavarians at Blenheim in 1704.
During the Thirty Years ' War it was sacked by the Imperial army, the Saxons and the Swedes in turn ; and in the first Silesian war the same fate befell it at the hands of the French and Bavarians.
But the insurrection against the French occupation influenced much of the early German identity, which before was divided into regional identities like the Bavarians, Saxons, Frisians and many more.
It is famous as the site of a battle fought on the 22 April 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition between the French, the Bavarians, the Württembergers under Napoleon, and the Austrians under the Archduke Charles, which resulted in the defeat of the latter.

French and however
The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.
Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.
The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.
Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).
French balle ( but not boule ) is assumed to be of Germanic origin, itself, however.
The French commanders were, however, divided as to how to utilise the Nebel: Tallard's tactic opposed by Marsin and the Elector who felt it better to close their infantry right up to the stream itself was to lure the allies across before unleashing their cavalry upon them, causing panic and confusion ; whilst the enemy was struggling in the marshes, they would be caught in crossfire from Blenheim and Oberglauheim.
" Palmes, however, attempted to follow up his success but was repulsed in some confusion by other French cavalry, and musketry fire from the edge of Blenheim.
Marlborough, however, noticed several important weaknesses in the French dispositions.
Voltaire, however, in Histoire du siecle du Louis XIV records, ' the French lost there twenty thousand men '.
The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.
The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.
Note however, that the allemandes, that occur in these suites do not correspond to a French dance from the same period.
The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the Balkan conflict.
During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.
In January, 1997, however, the Bangui Agreements were signed and the French EFAO troop was replaced by the 1, 350 soldiers of the Mission interafricaine de surveillance des Accords de Bangui ( MISAB ).
The French Ministry of Defence considered Clipperton as a possible replacement location ; however, due to the island's hostile climate and remote location, this was eventually ruled out.
Under French law, an association can represent the collective interests of consumers ; however, each claimant must be individually named in the lawsuit.
One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.
English is the official language and universally understood ; however, because of historic French domination, Antillean Creole, a French-lexified creole language, is also widely spoken.
Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.
Exceptions are unassimilated foreign loanwords, including borrowings from French and, increasingly, Spanish ; however, the diacritic is also sometimes omitted from such words.
David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.

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