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.

Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands in 1949 after the latter failed to restore colonial control.

The EU failed to react during the beginning of the conflict, and UN peacekeepers from the Netherlands failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre ( July 1995 ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest mass murder in Europe since the second world war.

The referendums that were held in France and the Netherlands failed however, killing off the treaty.

In 1582 the United Provinces invited Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them ; but after a failed attempt to take Antwerp in 1583, the duke left the Netherlands again.

The comte de Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family ’ s failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791.

The incident was used by the Nazis to link Great Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination of Hitler at the Burgerbraukeller two days before and to justify their later invasion of the Netherlands, a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.

The album failed to received much attention, and the band temporarily returned to the Netherlands, before settling in London, United Kingdom in the middle of 1985.

This was the upbeat " Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby " and although failed to make an impression in the UK, became a big hit in Europe, reaching Number one in Belgium and Number two in the Netherlands as well as top 10 placings in other countries.

Having failed to reach Rome, Psalmanazar traveled through the German principalities between 1700 and 1702, and appeared in the Netherlands around the year 1702, where he served as an occasional mercenary and soldier.

In the north, the Austrian siege of Lille had completely failed, and Dumouriez now resumed his interrupted scheme for the invasion of the Netherlands.

However, in 1628 he failed to capture Stralsund, which resisted the Capitulation of Franzburg and the subsequent siege with assistance of Danish, Scottish and Swedish troops, a blow that denied him access to the Baltic and the chance of challenging the naval power of the Scandinavian kingdoms and of the Netherlands.

Having failed to obtain a cease and desist order in Russia, Rowling and Time Warner targeted publication in the Netherlands, where first translations of international editions are commonly published.

Though Joseph did secure in the 1785 Treaty of Fontainebleau that the Southern Netherlands would be compensated by the Dutch Republic for the continued closing the Scheldt, this achievement failed to gain him much popularity.

Efforts to reconcile the situation while all delegates were still present in Netherlands failed.

This failed as well and Sindercombe fled to the Netherlands.

The incident was used by the presiding National Socialist German Workers ' Party government ( for propaganda purposes ) to link the United Kingdom to Georg Elser's failed assassination ( time-bomb ) attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich ( Germany ) on 8 November 1939 and to justify Germany's later invasion of the Netherlands, a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.

As the Dutch failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, Van Nistelrooy did not make his tournament debut for the Netherlands until Euro 2004, where he and the Czech Republic's Milan Baroš were the only players to score in all three group stage matches.

The family had to escape to the Netherlands after a failed plot by the Earl of Essex to overthrow the Queen.

Smit tried to set up local branches all over the Netherlands, but this has failed, except in Rotterdam.

In March 2002, Lord Cullen led the 5-judge tribunal at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands which heard the failed appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

On 10 September 2005, she spoke to an audience in the Netherlands about the 7 July 2005 London bombings and her disappointment that MI5 failed to stop attacks, even when in possession of intelligence, because of bureaucratic inertia.

A second proposal to exchange Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands in 1784 also failed.

The Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup after failing to compete with Portugal and the Republic of Ireland and so during all of his career with the Netherlands, he had missed one tournament.

In the 17th century, the Netherlands was experiencing a surge of freedom and progress, free from the anchors of delay that lingered in other parts of America.

It could have been recalled along the way, but no further diplomatic progress was made and on 1 December, Emperor Hirohito approved, in Imperial Conference, the war against United States, Britain, and the Netherlands, which began by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Malaya, and the Philippines.

Current projects in progress or on site include various housing projects in the Netherlands, Spain, China, France, Austria, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, a television centre for Zürich, a public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, a central market hall and a cultural centre in Rotterdam, a culture plaza in Nanjing, China, large scale urban masterplans in Oslo, Norway and in Tirana, Albania, an entire new eco-city in Logrono, Spain and a research masterplan into the future of greater Paris.

They have qualified for two World Cups, first in Germany in 2006, losing to Argentina and the Netherlands and beating Serbia and Montenegro as they failed to progress beyond the group stage.

The construction of the metal tubes for the tower is already in progress in the Netherlands.

Whilst they beat the Netherlands, Ireland lost their group match against Scotland in 2004 and failed to progress beyond the group stage.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was given the number 10 shirt and Savo Milošević captained the new Serbia and Montenegro team in their first World Cup, but they failed to progress to the knock-out rounds after losing all their group matches to Côte d ' Ivoire, Argentina, and the Netherlands.

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, its main functions are the propagation of the language, arranging the yearly conferences in which Ido speakers gather, and the publishing of the magazine Progreso ( progress ), begun in 1908 by Louis Couturat, one of the founders of the movement who died in 1914.

In the Netherlands, home birth is still a common practice, although rates have declined during the past decades.

During and after its golden age, the Dutch built up a commercial and colonial empire, which fell apart quickly after the Second World War ; the historical ties inherited from its colonial past still influence the foreign relations of the Netherlands.

The Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder in the Netherlands in the southwest, past the great river estuaries of Germany to its northern boundary at Skallingen north of Esbjerg in Denmark along a total length of some 500 km and a total area of about 10, 000 km².

In the past, Zwarte Piet was more identified with the chastising of bad children than the rewarding of the good, but both characters have softened since the mid-19th century, and today the 5 December feast of Saint Nicholas ( in the Netherlands, 6 December in Belgium ) is mainly an occasion for giving gifts to children.

Máxima has toured all across the Netherlands and has visited many different countries in the past years on official visits and state visits with the Queen, including Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Baltic States, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, U. S., Turkey, Chile, Morocco, India, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Aruba, Thailand, Cameroon, Russia, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, China, the Antilles, Slovenia, Antarctica, Paraguay, Bhutan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Kenya and Mexico, among others.

While most realms have, in the documented past, calculated membership in the royal house as descending through the male line ( sometimes allowing females to inherit and sometimes not ), most European monarchies have now constitutionally eliminated preference in the line of succession to the throne for males ( Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark ), and some non-European royal families have contemplated doing so ( Japan, Thailand ).

In the past, Corsairfly served Orly Airport in Paris France and Papeete, Tahiti, Martinair served Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands and CityBird served Brussels Airport in Brussels.

* Haarlem, a city in North Holland, Netherlands, from which the American Harlems take their name, in the past usually spelled as " Harlem " in English.

In the past the Netherlands underwent a process of pillarisation or verzuiling, which in practice meant that members of different religious congregations and political movements essentially lived side by side each other without contact between the two.

Over the past few centuries, the Oise has played an important role as an inland shipping waterway connecting the River Seine ( and thus Paris ) with the coastal regions of northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Regarding the number of female professors, the university ranks lower than comparable universities in the Netherlands even though the number has been on the increase over the past years.

In the past years the Netherlands passed immigration laws which force future immigrants and their prospective Dutch partners to abide by very strict requirements.

It was somewhat unfortunate that on the one occasion it was required for action in the Raid on the Medway, 1667, the Dutch fleet were able to sail right past it to attack the British fleet, to carry off the pride of the fleet the Royal Charles back to the Netherlands.

Het Scheur ( Dutch for " The Rip ") is a branch of the Rhine-Meuse delta in South Holland, Netherlands, that flows west from the confluence of the Oude Maas and Nieuwe Maas branches past the towns of Rozenburg and Maassluis.

In the past, Beira also been twinned with Amsterdam, Netherlands ( until 2005 )

In past centuries Bantry at darrens house was a base for major pilchard fisheries, and was visited by fishing fleets from Spain, France and the Netherlands.

Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, three countries whose footballing cultures were more influenced by British football in the past, experienced significant change.

Notwithstanding Moluccan integration into modern Dutch society has halted terrorist radicalisation, up to the 1990s the Netherlands were reminded yearly of the traumatic side of their colonial past, when celebrations of the RMS independence declaration frequently resulted in flared sentiments or even heavy riots in the streets of the capital.

In the Netherlands, four former institutes of technology have become universities over the past decades.

Smart shops in the Netherlands have been known in the past to sell synthetic substances that were not ( yet ) illegal under the Dutch Opium Act.

Over the past thirty years, however, scholars from several disciplines have co-mingled at international conferences such as that hosted by the University of Amsterdam ( the Netherlands ) and the International Society for the Study of Argumentation ( ISSA ).

The Netherlands, as a consociational state, was between 1857 and 1967 divided into four non-territorial pillars: Calvinist, Catholic, socialist, and liberal, although until 1917 there was a plurality (' first past the post ') electoral system rather than a consociational one.

He is a critical proponent of the Juridical philosophy developed by past professor of law at the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dr Herman Dooyeweerd.

In the past ( 1960's till 1990's ) the Netherlands took part in deployments of NATO nuclear artillery shells for its self-propelled howitzers and missile artillery units.

, real estate bubbles had existed in the recent past or were widely believed to still exist in many parts of the world, especially in the United States, Argentina, Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, Lebanon, France, Poland, South Africa, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Baltic states, India, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and China.