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The fall of de Dampierre and the arrestment of Custine acted fatally on the army of the North, which was now reduced to about thirty thousand rank and file, and these remained in a disorderly state, without a proper chief, and without aim or object, its manoeuvrings committed to chance or directed by ignorance, for with the exception of Kilmaine, its leaders were destitute of skill, experience,
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On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille with the Fête de la Fédération ; Talleyrand performed a mass ; participants swore an oath of " fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king "; the King and the royal family actively participated.
The Spanish Golden Age ( in Spanish, Siglo de Oro ) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire ( now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America ), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs ( Philip III, Philip IV and Charles II ).
The May 1958 seizure of power in Algiers by French army units and French settlers opposed to concessions in the face of Arab nationalist insurrection led to the fall of the French government and a presidential invitation to de Gaulle to form an emergency government to forestall the threat of civil war.
Word is also conveyed by de Bracy to Prince John of the King's return and the fall of Torquilstone.
Bureaux de change and money transmitters, such as Western Union outlets, in the UK fall within the ' regulated sector ' and are required to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations 2007.
The campaign was shot by Mario Testino at Paris's Hotel de Crillon and debuted in the fall 2010.
The fall of Château de Gisors to the French in 1196 opened a gap in the Norman defences.
The idea of the two halves, the East and the West, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I ( though it is important to remember that the Empire was never formally divided, Emperors of East and West legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of Rome's western empire left Byzantium, the " second Rome ", sole direct heir ).
It appeared that Montevideo would finally fall when an uprising against Rosas, led by Justo José de Urquiza governor of Argentina's Entre Ríos Province began.
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Jinga's coalition began to fall apart ; the absence of their Dutch allies with their firearms, and the strong position of Correia de Sá, delivered a deadly blow to the morale of the native forces.
* June 6 – King Henry I of Castile dies aged thirteen from the fall of a roof tile in Palencia, an event which his regent, Álvaro Núñez de Lara, attempts to conceal.
After the fall of France in June 1940, de Gaulle's had only 3, 000 strong contingent in Britain, growing to 7, 000 by the end of the year, Poland, 35, 000, growing to 80, 000 by the end of the year ( not counting a growing resistance, approaching tens of thousands by that point ).
However, many believed such a plot was just an excuse aiming to discredit de Maulay and Peter des Roches, who would also fall out of favour in spring 1234.
Ian Mortimer, focusing more on contemporary documents from 1327 itself, argues that Roger de Mortimer engineered a fake " escape " for Edward from Berkeley Castle ; after this Edward was kept in Ireland, believing he was really evading Mortimer, before finally finding himself free, but politically unwelcome, after the fall of Isabella and Mortimer.
Following his victory in the 1970 election ( and helped by de Gaulle's fall from power in 1969 ), the new prime minister Edward Heath negotiated Britain ’ s admission to the EC, alongside Denmark and Ireland in 1973.
Gautier instead turned the plot into a simple love triangle between a man, d ' Albert, and his mistress, Rosette, who both fall in love with Madelaine de Maupin, who is disguised as a man named Théodore.
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After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself Comte de Survilliers.
After the fall of Primo de Rivera, the Catalan left made great efforts to create a united front under Francesc Macià.
Valadon, who became a model after a fall from a trapeze ended her chosen career as a circus acrobat, found that posing for Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others provided her with an opportunity to study their techniques ; in some cases, she also became their mistress.
Until the fall of the Royalist stronghold of Lima in 1821, and the Battle of Ayacucho of 1824, territorial integrity was solely sustained by the military brilliance of Generals José de San Martín and Manuel Belgrano, the continuous efforts of northern provinces defenders Martín Miguel de Güemes and Juana Azurduy, among many others.
Additionally, the Pacific islands of Easter Island ( Isla de Pascua ), Isla Salas y Gómez, the Juan Fernández Islands and the Desventuradas Islands fall under the Valparaíso Region's administration.
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However, KHAD has continued to operate after the fall of the Soviet backed government in 1992 and acted as the intelligence arm of the United Front or " Northern Alliance " during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1996 – 2001 ).
He also seems to have acted as private secretary to the Protector, and was in some danger at the time of the Protector's fall in October 1549.
In 1885, a 22-year-old woman named Sarah Ann Henley survived a fall from the bridge when her billowing skirts acted as a parachute ; she subsequently lived into her eighties.
I have learned with pleasure that since my fall he invariably acted in the best manner.
) Eventually Knox — who seems to have acted with the greater magnanimity — was expelled, and in the fall of 1555, Foxe and about twenty others also left Frankfurt.
Monte Hellman acted as second unit director after Verhoven began to fall behind schedule.
The chronicler Joinville, who was not a priest, reports incidents demonstrating Margaret's bravery after Louis was made prisoner in Egypt: she decisively acted to assure a food supply for the Christians in Damietta, and went so far as to ask the knight who guarded her bedchamber to kill her and her newborn son if the city should fall to the Arabs.
He acted as minister of agriculture and commerce for a few months in 1850 – 1851, and subsequently became a senator, president of the municipal council of Paris, and master of the French mint, but his official career came to a sudden end with the fall of the Second Empire.
Until the fall of Lord North's ministry he acted as an opposition member of parliament.
Although French Admiral François Darlan had assured Winston Churchill the fleet would not fall into German possession, the British acted upon the assumption that Darlan's promises were insufficient guarantees.
However, there is one instance of a crinoline possibly saving a life, in the case of Sarah Ann Henley, who jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, in 1885 after a lover's quarrel, but survived the fall of almost because her skirts supposedly acted like a parachute and slowed her descent.
Lambrakis acted politically from within the United Democratic Left ( Eniaia Democratiki Aristera — EDA ), the only legal left-wing political party in the country after the Greek Civil War of 1946 – 1949 and until the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
He paid repeated visits to England, where he was well received by the king, and, after Wolsey's fall, he acted as one of Thomas Cromwell's agents in Paris.
Under the original design of the Budget Act, reconciliation had a fairly narrow purpose: it was expected to be used together with the second budget resolution adopted in the fall, was to apply to a single fiscal year, and be directed primarily at spending and revenue legislation acted on between the adoption of the first and second budget resolutions.
After a long time in exile, he returned to the country after the fall of the Rosas ' regime, and acted as Senator for San Luis Province.
During weeks of disturbances from June to early July 1789 leading up to the fall of the Bastille the regiment initially obeyed orders and on several occasions acted against the increasingly unruly crowds.
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A Globescan BBC poll on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ( 2009 ) found that 23 % of respondents believe capitalism is " fatally flawed and a different economic system is needed ", with that figure rising to over 40 % of the population in France ; while a majority of respondents including over 50 % of Americans believe capitalism " has problems that can be addressed through regulation and reform ".
Fond of horse riding, he was fatally injured in a fall from a horse.
Using the Schräge Musik required precise timing and swift evasion ; a fatally damaged bomber could fall directly upon the night fighter who had just shot it down if the fighter could not quickly turn away.
Veteran Disney actor and performer Mark Priest was fatally injured in an accidental fall while performing in Pirate Tutorial in Florida in July 2009.
Having just landed after a practice flight, Ramsey accidentally taxis his Spitfire into a slit-trench and his angry impatience causes him to fall from the aircraft and fatally fracture his neck.
Jonatan rescues his little brother by carrying him on his back and jumping out the window, but is fatally injured in the fall.
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