In 1794, the town was seized by French troops, becoming a part of the First French Empire.

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.

British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.

In 1658 the Dutch West Indies Company seized French territory to establish the Dutch colony of Cayenne.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

French armies entered Spain in order to attack Portugal, but then seized Spanish fortresses and took over the kingdom by surprise.

War with Britain seemed imminent in 1794, as the British seized hundreds of American ships that were trading with French colonies.

Shortly before Jefferson's election, Napoleon had seized power from the hapless French Directory, which had recently mismanaged France's finances in unsuccessful wars and had lost control of Saint-Domingue ( Haiti ) after a slave rebellion.

In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.

* 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

Five months after his election, the French cardinals met at Anagni, inviting Urban, who realized that he would be seized and perhaps slain.

In March 1800, Hermann alerted the French scientist George Cuvier to the existence of Collini's fossil, believing that it had been captured by the occupying armies of Napoleon and sent to the French collections in Paris ( and perhaps to Cuvier himself ) as war booty ; at the time special French political commissars systematically seized art treasures and objects of scientific interest.

The specimen had not in fact been seized by the French.

Secretary of State Timothy Pickering reported to Congress on June 21, 1797, that the French had seized 316 American merchant ships in the previous eleven months.

Preble commanded the frigate Essex, which he sailed around Cape Horn into the Pacific to protect American merchantmen in the East Indies ; he recaptured several ships that had been seized by French privateers.

However, the French seized many American merchant ships by war's end in 1800 — over two thousand, one source contends.

Captain George Little, acting under the authority of Adams ' order, seized a Danish ship sailing from a French port.

Resulting in the division of the mouth of the Congo River between Portugal, who obtained Cabinda, an enclave north of the Congo River situated on the Atlantic Coast, the French who seized the large area north of the River, and king Leopold II gaining only a small foothold at the mouth of the Congo River but obtaining the huge hinterland, the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo ( formerly Zaire ).

* June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L ' Ouverture is seized by French troops and is imprisoned at the Fort de Joux.

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

Just as Belgrade was falling to Imperial forces under Max Emmanuel in the east, French troops in the west were crossing the Rhine into the Holy Roman Empire.

Leonardo da Vinci, who was in Milan from around 1482 until the fall of the city to the French in 1499, was commissioned in 1487 to design a tiburio, or crossing tower for the cathedral, although he was not chosen to build it.

The result is that the Cathedral reflects a hodgepodge of architectural styles, with a Gothic nave, a Romanesque crossing under the dome ; chapels in French, English and Spanish Gothic styles, as well as Norman and Byzantine ; Gothic choir stalls, and Roman arches and columns separating the high altar and ambulatory.

French reserve troops crossing a river on their way to Verdun.

Water would be pumped south from the newly-formed James Lake into the Harricana River, crossing into the Great Lakes watershed near Amos, Quebec | Amos, into Lake Timiskaming and the Ottawa River, crossing near Mattawa, Ontario | Mattawa into Lake Nipissing and the French River ( Ontario ) | French River to Lake Huron.

But the timely arrival of the Marshal de Boussac with sizeable French reinforcements prevented the English from repairing and crossing the bridge and seizing Orleans right then.

The French crossed the river from Orleans on boats and barges and landed on the island of St. Aignan, crossing over to the south bank via a makeshift pontoon bridge, landing on the stretch between the bridge complex and the bastille of St. Jean-le-Blanc.

French painter Michel Marnet ( Charles Boyer ) meets American singer Terry McKay ( Irene Dunne ) aboard a liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Unluckily for White they were barely suited for the Atlantic crossing and the governor endured further bad luck as the ships were intercepted by French pirates who " playd extreemely upon us with their shot ", hitting White ( to his great embarrassment ) " in the side of the buttoke ".

The majority of the work covers the crossing of the English Channel by the invasion fleet and the combat once the troops landed on the French coast.

The name Prairie Ronde ( French for " round meadow ") is said to have been given by French explorer Robert Sieur de la Salle during an overland crossing of the region in 1680.

The name Auxvasse was given to the creek by early French explorers who had trouble crossing the stream in the area east of the present town of Mokane.

There, behind the Forbach stream running into the Main, Noailles had stationed the Duc of Gramont with a blocking force of some 23, 000 troops in a line that ran from Dettingen to the Spessart Heights behind the marshy stream and had lined the south bank of the Main with artillery that could fire without interference on the Pragmatic army's left flank while about 12, 000 French troops marched south on Aschaffenburg crossing the Main behind the allied army.

The Braddock Expedition, particularly his crossing of the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755 at this place, led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops who had been moving against the French at Fort Duquesne.

LaSalle understood the meaning of the crossing paths of French and Spanish exploration from opposite directions, and outlined the main lines of future French strategy in North America ; he recognized the Mississippi as the key to control of the vast continental heartland, and the Ohio River became the line beyond which they would attempt to bar British expansion from the east.

After a forced march, the Allies crossed the river Schelde at Oudenaarde just as the French army, under Marshal Vendôme and the duc de Burgundy, was crossing farther north with the intent of besieging the place.

The bay earned its name from 18th century French voyagers who made la grande traverse or " the long crossing " across the mouth of the Grand Traverse Bay.