He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Since the complicated process of establishing new communes and reviewing the rudimentary plan left by the French did not even begin until the fall of 1957, this goal appears somewhat ambitious.

The military dangers in such an enterprise were numerous: Marlborough's lines of communication along the Rhine would be hopelessly exposed to French interference, for Louis ’ generals controlled the left bank of the river and its central reaches.

In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

The French left flank was protected by broken country, and by a stream, the Petite Gheete, which runs deep between steep and slippery slopes.

On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi ’ s left flank.

" Heeding this advice the French commander began to transfer battalions from his centre to reinforce the left, drawing more foot from the already weakened right to replace them.

Villeroi meanwhile, was still moving more reserves of infantry in the opposite direction towards his left flank ; crucially, it would be some time before the French commander noticed the subtle change in emphasis of the Allied dispositions.

The disparity of numbers – exacerbated by Villeroi stripping their ranks of infantry to reinforce his left flank – enabled Overkirk's cavalry to throw the first line of French horse back in some disorder towards their second-line squadrons.

Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line facing south, stretching from Offus to Mont St André, floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment.

At the beginning of the battle, the English simulated flight on their left wing that provoked a hasty charge by the French knights against the archers.

However, precisely because the French thought the Ardennes unsuitable for massive troop movement, particularly for tanks, they were left with only light defences which were quickly overrun by the Wehrmacht.

This left the French armies much reduced in strength ( although not demoralized ), and without much of their own armour and heavy equipment.

Meanwhile, the French feudatories on the left wing had thoroughly defeated the Imperial forces opposed to them.

On 10 May 1810, a squadron consisting of the 36-gun frigate HMS Caroline, formerly French frigate HMS Piedmontaise, 18-gun sloop HMS Barracouta, and the 12-gun transport HMS Mandarin left Madras with money, supplies and troops to support the garrison at Amboyna, recently captured from the Dutch.

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge BET Prefecture, the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive.

During World War II, the 1940-1941 Franco-Thai War left the French Indochinese colonial authorities in a position of weakness.

This set of British triumphs which left Cape Sable as the only major French holding in North America was not destined to last.

In 1660 the French and English agreed that both Dominica and St. Vincent should not be settled, but instead left to the Caribs as neutral territory.

The French Huguenot nobles and clergy, having rejected the pope and the Catholic Church, were left only with the supreme power of the king who, they taught, could not be gainsaid or judged by anyone.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

After the Society was closed down by the government, he left his hometown and moved to Korçë, continuing his studies in a French secondary school.

At about 08: 00 the French artillery on their right wing opened fire, answered by Colonel Blood's batteries.

On the other wing the French at last routed the Flemish cavalry and captured Ferrand, Count of Flanders, one of the leaders of the coalition.

) is a military service wing of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces.

The Grand Louvre project separated the department into two exhibition spaces ; the French collection is displayed in the Richelieu wing, and foreign works in the Denon wing.

French and Northern European works are in the Richelieu wing and Cour Carrée ; Spanish and Italian paintings are on the first floor of the Denon wing.

In politics, the term left wing derives from the French Revolution, as radical Montagnard and Jacobin deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair in parliament, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789.

Most long-standing spectra include a right wing and left wing, which originally referred to seating arrangements in the 18th century French parliament.

It was the German / French scientist Johann Hermann who first stated that Pterodactylus used its long fourth finger to support a wing membrane.

Henry led the main thrust through the county of Évreux, while the other wing, under the French king's brother Odo, invaded eastern Normandy.

* White shirt with shirt studs, French or barrel cuffs, and a turn-down collar ( wing collars are generally reserved for white tie in the United Kingdom )

After suffering a check at the Battle of Wörth on August 6, 1870, the commander of the French right ( south ) wing, Marshal Patrice MacMahon, retreated westward.

That same day, about to the northwest, the commander of the French left wing, Marshal Achille Bazaine, was dislodged from near Saarbrücken and fell back westward to the fortress of Metz.

The French right wing, commanded by MacMahon and accompanied by Napoleon III himself, attempted to relieve Bazaine but was itself surrounded and trapped by the Germans in the disastrous Battle of Sedan on August 31.

However, in the same days, a part of the French Army led by Marshal Nicolas Oudinot was stopped in the Battle of Polotsk by the right wing of the Russian Army, under command of General Peter Wittgenstein.

Other critics, such as Roger Cukierman of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions did not attack the party as a whole, but rather its anti-Zionist wing, claiming that it promoted a " brown-green alliance ".

Government support for an established religion was associated with the original French " right wing.

The word aileron is French for " little wing ".

Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party ( PPA ), while its leaders created an armed wing, the Armée de Libération Nationale ( National Liberation Army ) to engage in an armed struggle against French authority.

The Organisation Civile et Militaire had a female wing headed by Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, who took part in setting up the Œuvre de Sainte-Foy to assist prisoners in French prisons and German concentration camps.