The Duke had assured the Dutch that if the French were to launch an offensive he would return in good time, but Marlborough calculated that as he marched south, the French commander would be drawn after him.

For this end, and in order to maintain their momentum, the French and their allies would swing over to the offensive in 1706.

British, French, and American doctrines broadly favoured a more deliberate set-piece battle, using mechanised forces to maintain the impetus and momentum of an offensive.

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

Mussolini believed that following a brief entry of Italy into war with France, followed by the imminent French surrender, Italy could gain some territorial concessions from France and then concentrate its forces on a major offensive in Egypt where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces.

The goal was to break through the lines of the U. S. 7th Army and French 1st Army to support the southern thrust in the Ardennes offensive, the final major German offensive of the war.

Royalist invasion forces were defeated at Toulon in 1793, leaving the French republican forces in an offensive position and granting a young officer, Napoleon Bonaparte, a certain fame.

Italy occupied Vlorë, and Serbia and Montenegro occupied parts of northern Albania until a Central Powers offensive scattered the Serbian army, which was evacuated by the French to Thessaloniki.

In September 1939, in response to the German Invasion of Poland, French forces invaded the Saarland in a half-hearted offensive, occupying some villages and meeting little resistance, before withdrawing.

After the failure of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the large British offensive in March 1915, the British Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal John French blamed the lack of progress on insufficient and poor-quality artillery shells.

French armies continued to advance along the Rhine, reaching as far as Mainz, but the growing imperial army, which came to include troops from Russia that had assisted with the capture of Danzig, was able to prevent France from establishing a siege there, and Eugene went on the offensive.

However the war effort soon stalled, and Pitt alleged that the government was not prosecuting the war effectively-demonstrated by the fact that the British waited two years before taking further offensive action fearing that further British victories would provoke the French into declaring war.

Even when the French were in occupation of the Russian capital Moscow, Russian forces in the south were not recalled but continued their offensive against Persia, culminating in Pyotr Kotlyarevsky's victories at Aslanduz and Lenkoran, in 1812 and 1813 respectively.

To this day, the Belgians are remembered for their stubborn resistance during the early days of the war, with the army-around a tenth the size of the Germany Army-holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, giving the French and British forces time to prepare for the Marne counteroffensive later in the year.

A pre-war plan laid out by the late Marshal Adolphe Niel called for a strong French offensive from Thionville towards Trier and into the Prussian Rhineland.

British Prime Minister Lloyd George opposed the offensive as did General Foch the French Chief of the General Staff.

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.

Nivelle planned a three-phase operation: preliminary offensives to pin German reserves by the British at Arras and the French between the Somme and the Oise ; a French breakthrough offensive on the Aisne ; and pursuit and exploitation.

The French army was once more capable of the offensive.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

Bienville realized that if the French were to hold the southeastern tribes against the enticements of British goods, French traders must be able to offer a supply as abundant as the Carolinians and at reasonable prices.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

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 ).

The Murder On the Links saw the Belgian pit his grey cells against a French murderer.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

* 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

* Joan of " Ark ", occasional misspelling of Joan of Arc, a French martyr and saint who led a rebellion against an English occupation

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

After numerous requests from Haig, Petain launched the Battle of La Malmaison, a long-delayed French attack on the Chemin des Dames, by Maistre's French Sixth Army.

The Germans were swiftly defeated, losing 11, 157 prisoners and 180 guns as the French advanced up to 6 km, capturing the town of La Malmaison and gaining control of the Chemin des Dames ridge.

* La Petite Fille au bout du Chemin ( French translation )

Famed for its picturesque aspect, Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s and was one of several that inspired Walt Disney in the creation of many of the Disney Castles.

About 1776, a Chemin Neuf, French for " New Road ", was built connecting the Mississippi River with False River, a long oxbow lake and formerly the main channel of the Mississippi.

Henrik has written many poems in his native language French, some of which has been published in the poetry collections ; Chemin faisant ( 1982 ), Cantabile ( 2000 ), Les escargots de Marie Lanceline ( 2003 ), Murmures de vent ( 2005 ), and Frihjul ( Roue-Libre, 2010 ).

He also held a seat on the board of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, the French railway company on the Calais side of the English Channel.

* King's Highway ( French: Chemin du Roy ), part of Route 138 in Quebec, Canada

* Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi or PO-Midi, an early French railway company

* Chemin de Fer du Midi or CF du Midi, an early French railway company

* Chemin du Roy, French for the King's Way or King's Road, a historic trail in Quebec, Canada

French assault on the Chemin des Dames

During World War I, the Chemin Des Dames lay in that sector of the Western Front held by the French Army.

Then, on 16 April, seven French army corps attacked the German line along the Chemin des Dames ridge.

* Chemin de Fer des Côtes-du-Nord, a former French railway system, often abbreviated to CdN

He also served with the French in the Chemin des Dames offensive in October 1917, and in winter operations in northern Italy with the French Tenth Army.

* Wikipedia article Chemin de fer du Montenvers ( in French ), last updated on 2 March 2009 at 04: 08 GMT.

When she was only 13, she joined the French Resistance and under the alias " Beatrice " worked with Le Chemin de Fer Humain ( the Human Railroad ), saving 80 men.

Chemin de fer is the French term for railway.

Chemin Couvert ( French for " covered way or road ") was later mispronounced " Smackover " by Anglo-Americans.

In 1878, the French government took over ten small failing railway companies and established the Chemin de Fer de l ' État.

The French ground troops, about 2, 000 effective troops under the command of Comte du Chemin, had captured Cuddalore on 6 May.