On the Entente side, the final lines were occupied by the armies of the Allied countries, with each nation defending a part of the front.

He called on the country to support the Allied and British war effort and Britain's commitment under the Triple Entente ; this was a calculated response to the situation principally in the belief that the attained measure of self-government would be granted in full after the war and to be in a stronger position to stave off a final partition of Northern Ireland.

Opposition to revise the Four-Power Pact was expressed by Poland and Little Entente States, as apparent in the French dilution of the pact in this final form.

In 1914 his presence became an embarrassment as French politicians had invited King George V to Paris to set a final seal on the Entente Cordiale.

The NFL has a similar rule in the final minute of the half, but it applies only to specified violations against the offensive team.

The final blow to the cause of the Finnish Reds was dealt when the Bolsheviks broke off the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, leading to the German eastern offensive in February 1918.

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.

In one final effort to break the deadlock and end the war NATO forces planned a summer offensive across Northern Poland and into the Baltics, but the offensive ground to a halt in the face of a Warsaw Pact counterattack.

** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.

The second heaviest losses were during the U. S. Army's final offensive of the war, operation Dewey Canyon II ( Dewey Canyon II was an operation in support of the ARVN Lam San 719 Operation, in which the code 719 meant the year 1971 along Route 9 ), when the cavalry's remaining Sheridan Squadrons met near disaster on the Lao border during the early months of 1971, in particular the 1st Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regt.

In September 1968, the federal army planned what Gowon described as the " final offensive ".

Initially the final offensive was neutralised by Biafran troops.

From September, the Belgian army was involved in the Allied offensive until the final victory of November 11, 1918.

She and her family were put on the first of the three final trains ( the three final transports were most probably a reaction to the Allies ' offensive ) on 3 September 1944 for Auschwitz, arriving there three days later.

During 1976, the final general offensive would begin.

British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, " It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916.

Opening the final round Vargas was on the offensive, connecting a solid left hook.

After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Germany launched and almost succeeded in a final offensive, however the new tactics of autonomy revealed a weakness in terms of overall coordination and direction.

In March, General Văn Tiến Dũng launched " Campaign 275 ", the success of which prompted the general to push Hanoi for a final all-out offensive to take all of South Vietnam.

There the Germans orchestrated their final counterstrike and offensive move against allied troops.

* The “ Trench of Death ” ( Dodengang in Dutch ), about 1. 5 km from the center of the city, preserves the trench setting where Belgian soldiers fought under the most perilous conditions until the final offensive of September 28, 1918.

Further radio monitoring revealed to the Japanese that the U. S. Asiatic Fleet had been alerted at 4: 00 am of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and they expected attacks on their own bases by B-17s ( bombing through the fog undercast ) at any time after 7: 00 am The air defense weaknesses of the FEAF were mirrored by those of the Japanese, who had prepared only for offensive operations, but no attack came before a final revised plan was issued at 7: 50 am, ordering the main attack force of Japanese land-based aircraft to launch at 9: 15 am and attack at 12: 30 pm

He then led the army through the Allied Spring 1945 offensive in Italy culminating in the final destruction of the German forces in Italy.

The final offensive began at the end of March 1943, and by May, Axis forces had surrendered.

In March 1975, confident that the U. S. no longer had the stomach to intervene militarily in Indochina, the North Vietnamese began their final military offensive in South Vietnam, which by the end of April carried them to victory with the fall of Saigon.

) Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s and completion of the final lots scheduled to be completed by spring 2011.

Without the benefit of spring training, he returned to the Tigers, was again voted to the All-Star Team, and helped lead them to a come-from-behind American League pennant, clinching it with a grand slam home run in the dark — no lights in Sportsman's Park in St. Louis — ninth inning of the final game of the season.

After the close of the council a fifth and final meeting of the commission was held, again enlarged to include sixteen bishops as an executive committee, in Rome in the spring of 1966.

The final indictments were issued in December 2004, the last of which were confirmed and unsealed in the spring of 2005.

Davis persuaded Coltrane to play with the group on one final European tour in the spring of 1960.

The Battle of Hama did not end the contest for power between the Ayyubids and the Zengids, with the final confrontation occurring in the spring of 1176.

This Spangberg's party did before the river froze ; next, a party led by Bering completed this final stint of approximately 580 miles over land without the benefit of the river ; and finally, in the spring of 1728, the last party to leave Bolsheretsk, headed by Chirikov, reached the Lower Kamchatka Post.

In the spring of 1824, August returned to Paris for final studies and examination preparations at the Paris Opera.

This was the first in several attempts by the Union General Ulysses S. Grant to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line — the South Side Railroad — in the spring 1865.

Brel returned to France in the spring, and on 16 May 1967, he gave his final concert performance in the town of Roubaix in northern France.

The final route for the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike was determined that spring, and it was precisely where Samuel Jones wanted it.

He filmed his part in the spring of 1969, and shortly thereafter filmed his final film role, also for Adamson, in The Female Bunch.

In the spring of 1974, after completing a vast world tour that culminated with a tour of Asia, the group took an extended break, because of the other band members feeling exhausted and overshadowed ( this said by Hayward himself in the final issue of Higher & Higher magazine 2006 ).

Toscanini's final two broadcast programs, in the spring of 1954, were experimentally recorded in stereo, but he did not approve the release of these items ; many years passed before they were finally issued on labels other than RCA Victor.

The final episode of the final season, in spring 1999, placing Tom's career and relationship with Cassie on the rocks, was a cliffhanger with no resolution.

" In one of the final episodes, Volkova mentioned returning to the United States in spring of 2004 to record with new producers.

The Performing Arts Centre was the fourth and final phase of this revitalization project, completed in the spring of 2010.

To help take their minds off their baby's death, the Bateses rejoined touring with W. W. Cole in the summer of 1879, and again in the spring of 1880, but that was to be their final tour, after which they retired.

A strong proponent of the USFL's planned move to the fall in 1986, Einhorn opted not to field a team in the USFL's final spring lame duck season, 1985.

The suppression of the uprising in Baden and the Palatinate spelled the final end of the revolutionary uprisings in Germany that had begun in the spring of 1848.

Devine was so impressed that he later told his wife: " I'm gonna start Joe Montana in the final spring game.

The first three of these books were written before Nithard's appointment as lay-abbey of St-Riquier in the winter of 842, the fourth and final in spring of 843 after taking up office there.

Radical democratic politicians saw it as final confirmation that the bourgeois politicians, as Hecker had said in spring 1848, " negotiate with the princes " instead of " acting in the name of the sovereign people ", thus becoming traitors to the cause of the people.