But when the Tories came into power in 1710 Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and until the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion, sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador.

As well, the party's links with the federal Conservatives harmed the party as the Tories in English Canada became increasingly identified as hostile to French Canadians and Quebec.

The Manifesto was published in two versions ( October 11, 1849 and December 1849 ) by the Annexation Association, an alliance of 325 Montreal businessmen ( mostly English-speaking Tories ), who were opposed to Britain's abolition of the Corn Laws, thus ending preferential colonial trade, and by its consent to the Rebellion Losses Bill, and French Canadian nationalists ( including Louis-Joseph Papineau ) who supported the republican system of government in the United States.

The Coalition comprised three main groups, the Tories, French Bleus, and Hinckesite Reformers of Canada West.

The French got news of the retreat and cancelled their invasion which was now ready, while English Tories who had just sent a message pledging support if Charles reached London went to ground again.

One account is that it was named for snowshoes ( raquette in French ) left by a party of Tories led by Sir John Johnson in 1776.

In 1984, Brian Mulroney warned Sherman and other Tories that they must support French language rights of minorities outside Quebec in order to run as Progressive Conservative candidate.

While Tories respected his financial acumen, he was an uninspiring speaker who struggled in French.

* 1513 – Battle of Guinegate ( Battle of the Spurs ) – King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

Philip was himself able to take undisputed control of most French territories of John of England, Otto's maternal uncle and ally.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.

The glossing was probably brought to England as Old French crimne ( 12th century form of Modern French crime ), from Latin crimen ( in the genitive case: criminis ).

Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

* French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir ( literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960 ) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre.

For seventy-four years ( 1689-1763 ) there were six colonial wars, which involved continuous warfare between New England and Acadia ( see the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War ).

As a bilingual act of parliament, the Canada Act 1982 has the distinction of being the only legislation in French that has been passed by an English or British parliament since Norman French ceased to be the language of government in England.

Category: French expatriates in England

The French King refused to lead the crusade himself, nor could he spare his son — despite his victory against John of England, there were still pressing issues with Flanders and the empire and the threat of an Angevin revival.

The most famous of the French deists was Voltaire, who acquired a taste for Newtonian science, and reinforcement of deistic inclinations, during a two-year visit to England starting in 1726.

This threatened to unite the Spanish and French kingdoms under the House of Bourbon – something unacceptable to England, the Dutch Republic, and Leopold I, who had himself a claim to the Spanish throne.

She feared that the French planned to invade England and put Mary, Queen of Scots, who was considered by many to be the heir to the English crown, on the throne.

A contretemps occurred during the progress in mid-August when the Queen twice requested Oxford to dance before the French ambassadors, who were in England to negotiate a marriage between the 46 year old Elizabeth and the younger brother of Henri III of France, the 24 year old Duke of Anjou.

Although details are unclear, there is evidence that in 1577 Oxford attempted to leave England to see service in the French Wars of Religion on the side of King Henry III.

Bastiat wrote the work while living in England to advise the shapers of the French Republic on pitfalls to avoid.

Philosophers such as Condorcet, who drafted the French revolutionary chart for a people's education under the rule of reason, dismissed rhetoric as an instrument of oppression in the hands of clerics in particular.

By contrast, most of the best officers in the French navy had been either executed or dismissed from the service during the early part of the French Revolution.

Traveling to Fort Le Boeuf, he threatened the French with military action, which Marin contemptuously dismissed.

He was taught French by Samuel Chappuzeau ( who was dismissed by William's grandmother after the death of his mother ).

Motley did not get to deal explicitly with the Batavian Republic, but the way his collaborator William Elliot Griffis dismissed the Patriots speaks for itself :"... whether under the name of the ' Batavian Republic ', the Kingdom of Holland, or the provinces of the French empire, the French occupation was virtually a French conquest that had little permanent influence on Dutch history or character.

The French commander dismissed the rapes, attributing them to " gallantry of the French soldier ".

Thugot's chancellorship did not survive the Austrian defeats by the French at the battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden in 1800 and he was replaced by Johan Ludwig Joseph Cobenzl ( 1800-1805 ), his predecessor's cousin, but who in turn was dismissed following the Austrian defeat at Austerlitz in 1805.

Napoleon dismissed Joseph's misgivings out of hand ; and, to back up the raw and ill-trained levies he had initially allocated to Spain — the Emperor sent heavy French reinforcements to assist Joseph in maintaining his position as King of Spain.

Though critics at the time dismissed Feydeau's works as light entertainment, he is now recognized as one of the great French playwrights of his era.

The French dismissed Nhu from his high-ranking post, due to Diệm's nationalist activities, and he moved to the central highlands resort town of Đà Lạt and lived comfortably, editing a newspaper.

Paxton, an expert in Vichy history, dismissed the " preconceived ideas " according to which Vichy had " hoped to protect French Jews " by handing " foreign Jews " over to the Germans.

The issue of misinterpretation is also addressed in Gordan A. Craig's book " Germany: 1866 – 1945 " where it is argued that Taylor dismissed Hitler's foreign policy, argued in Mein Kampf, in particular, the remilitarisation of the Rhineland, as a jumble of idle thoughts written down under the impact of the French occupation of the Ruhr.

Overall, Archduke Charles was well aware that he did not possess the means necessary to lead any offensive actions, so he promptly dismissed suggestions to run any major operations against the French base on Lobau island.

A plan to march to Pressburg, cross the Danube and launch operations against the enemy's rear from there was also dismissed as strategically unsound after General Major Wimpffen noted that such a plan would leave Bohemia, the richest province still under the Austrian Empire's control, open to a French invasion.

Masséna was then made commander of the French forces in Italy, but was later dismissed by Napoleon.

Members convicted of a felony ( crime in French ) are dismissed de jure from the order.

Members convicted of a misdemeanour ( délit in French ) can be dismissed as well.

The Wrights ' claim was dismissed in the French and the German courts.

After another coup ( November 7, 1982 ) brought to power Major-Doctor Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Sankara became prime minister in January 1983, but he was dismissed ( May 17 ) and placed under house arrest after a visit by the French president's son and African affairs adviser Jean-Christophe Mitterrand.

As President of the French Republic, the Duke controversially dismissed the republican Prime Minister Jules Simon, replacing him with the Orleanist Duc de Broglie, before dissolving the French National Assembly on 16 May 1877 in an effort to halt the rise of Republicanism and boost the prospects of a restoration of the monarchy under the Comte de Chambord.