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French and army
For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.
* 1759 Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.
Johnson forced the French out of Mexico by sending an army to the border and issuing an ultimatum.
* 1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
* 1809 The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
* 1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
* 1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
* 1522 Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
* 1544 French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
* 1809 Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
The reputation of the French army also suffered badly.
Local German peasants, angry at French plundering, compounded Tallard's problems, leading Mérode-Westerloo to bemoan " the enraged peasantry killed several thousand of our men before the army was clear of the Black Forest.
A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.
The rest of Marlborough's army, waiting in their ranks on the forward slope, were also forced to bear the cannonade from the French artillery, suffering 2, 000 casualties before the attack could even be begun.

French and navy
* 1741 Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer ( d. 1788 )
In 1875, the Navy had 21 battleships and 173 warships of other types, ranking as the third largest navy in the world after the British and French navies.
In France, Colbert planted oak forests to supply the French navy in the future.
The French navy, an extensive user of torpedo boats, built its first torpedo boat destroyer in 1899, with the Durandal-class ' torpilleur d ' escadre '.
Consolation came in the form of dominance in Europe and the American Revolutionary War, where extensive French aid in the form of money and arms, and the direct participation of its army and navy led to America's independence.
Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.
In the previous years the French navy had enormously grown in strength and the Dutch Republic would no longer be able to resist a combined Anglo-French attack.
The French navy adopted a fine, 3. 1 millimeter, not prismatic grained product called Slow Burning Cocoa ( SBC ) or " cocoa powder ".
For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, " enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history ".
French and British military missions were invited for the army and navy respectively, and arms purchases were made.
After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.
As a result, British seamen did not suffer from typhus, giving the British navy a significant competitive advantage over the French.
* 1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
First attested in English c. 1600, the word " navy " came via Old French navie, " fleet of ships ", from the Latin navigium, " a vessel, a ship, bark, boat ", from navis, " ship " and from Sanskrit " न ा व " ( Nav ), " ship ".
Using his increased revenues, Philip was the first Capetian King to actively build a French navy.
The French navy began seizing American ships trading with Britain and refused to receive the new United States minister Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in December 1796.
The French navy inflicted substantial losses on American shipping.
The French, outnumbering the Thai navy force, decisively won the naval Battle of Koh Chang.
The military of Togo, in French FAT ( Forces armées togolaises, " Togolese armed forces "), consists of the army, navy, air force, and gendarmerie.
The Military of Togo, in French FAT ( Forces armées togolaises, " Togolese armed forces "), consists of the army, navy, air force, and gendarmerie.
The French navy followed suit in 1878 with Torpilleur No 1, launched in 1878 though she had been ordered in 1875.
Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.
Oribe took Rosas's side when the French navy blockaded Buenos Aires in 1838.

French and departed
Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.
At the same time, many in the growing black professional classes departed from the traditional veneration of Haiti's French cultural heritage and emphasized the nation's African roots, most notably ethnologist Jean Price-Mars and the journal Les Griots, edited by Dr. François Duvalier.
In 1820 a French fleet with an army departed from Toulon for the conquest of Algeria.
In December 1866, the last of the French troops departed from Rome, in spite of the efforts of the pope to retain them.
Richard Redus and Art Tripp departed on this album, with slide guitar and marimba duties taken up by the reappearance of John French.
In addition, SNCF donated to the French Shoah Memory Foundation a 3. 5 hectare field near a train station from which most deportations to Nazi camps departed.
On November 2, All Souls Day ( La Fête des morts ), the French traditionally bring chrysanthemums to the tombs of departed family members.
Concern about living under British rule led many French settlers to decamp for Missouri, especially with encouragement from Laclede ; upon the arrival of the British at Fort de Chartres in October 1765, St. Ange himself departed for St. Louis, where he took temporary command until Spanish representatives could take official control.
Shortly after they had departed Ghent, the town was suddenly attacked by the French who captured it and its garrison.
On July 24, 1684, La Salle departed France and returned to America with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
The French departed Syria in 1946.
The British and French fleets departed from the Bulgarian port of Varna on 5 September 1854, heading towards Kalamita Bay in the Crimea.
The United States of America took up the slack as the French departed, setting up the Programs Evaluation Office as a sub rosa military mission in January 1954.
Cauchon returned to his diocese with the deaths of Charles VI and Henry V. He departed from a visit to Rheims in 1429 when Joan of Arc and the French army approached for the coronation of Charles VII.
The French members would have preferred to continue the Council until a thorough reform of the church had been accomplished, both " in capite et in membris " (" in its head and its members "), but whether in order to avoid a new schism, or whether on account of fear of the Pope ( since Siena in southern Tuscany was near the Papal States ), they departed.
After completing the building a longboat ( to replace one lost in the attack in the Navigator Islands ) and obtaining wood and water, the French departed for New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, the Solomons, and the Louisiades.
In June 1816, the French frigate Méduse departed from Rochefort, bound for the Senegalese port of Saint-Louis.
On 2 August 1806 the earl, fully fluent in French, departed for France, invested with full powers to conclude peace, the negotiations for which had been for several weeks carried on by the Earl of Yarmouth.
Upon inheriting the team's captaincy from the departed Kirk Muller, Keane drew controversy in the French media after saying he did not believe it was necessary to speak French, since players on the team spoke predominantly English.
These songs featured a lineup of Van Vliet, Bill Harkleroad and Jeff Cotton on guitar, John French on drums, and Van Vliet's friend Gary Marker serving temporarily on bass as replacement for the recently departed Jerry Handley.
Meanwhile, Joachim Murat, commanding the French forces in this sector, departed from the village of Bechenkowitschy with two battalions of the 8th Light infantry regiment, and headed towards Nansouty's position.
Although a son of the minority French Reformed tradition and thus a spiritual heir of thinkers like John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli, Ellul departed substantially from Reformed doctrinal traditions, but unlike other European Protestant thinkers, utterly rejected the influence of philosophical idealism or romanticism upon his beliefs about God and human faith.
Julius, afraid of being trapped by the French, departed the city for Ravenna.

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