* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

Two weeks later a French envoy continued to foment the revolutionary opinions of the city.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

* 1998: Two days after the French football team became World Cup champions, huge celebrations took place nationwide.

Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.

Two other French ships still flew the tricolour, but neither was in a position to either retreat or fight.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Two fundamental themes dominated Chad's colonial experience with the French: an absence of policies designed to unify the territory and an exceptionally slow pace of modernization.

Two years later, the French established an outpost at Bangui, and in 1894, Oubangui-Chari became a French territory.

Two thousand French and Belgian troops, some of whom were flown in on U. S. Air Force planes, arrived to evacuate the 20, 000 endangered foreign nationals in Kinshasa.

Two French trumpet technique books, authored by Jean-Baptiste Arban, and St. Jacome, were translated into English for use by American players.

He was very active in furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, Philip V. Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appointed consular agent for Parma at Philip's court, where he was the royal favourite, being raised at the same time to the dignity of count.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States ( 1776 ) and in France ( 1789 ), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights.

There was no European Formula Two championship that year, but Brabham won the Trophées de France, a championship consisting of six of the French Formula Two races.

Two days later, as the band checked in at a French Quarter hotel for their 30 July performance at the Louisiana Superdome, Plant received news that his five-year-old son, Karac, had died from a stomach virus.

Two years later, faced with a united Moroccan demand for the sultan's return, rising violence in Morocco, and the deteriorating situation in Algeria, the French government brought Mohammed V back to Morocco.

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

Two French voice types, premiere dugazon and deuxieme dugazon, were named after successive stages in the career of Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre ( Mme.

* 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

Two French aid workers were killed on December 4 that same year.

Two inventors, Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, and their company Ecovative Design LLC, developed the method to manipulate a network of mycelia into desirable shapes, with properties comparable to its plastic counterpart.

Two main brands manufacture BAHAs today-the original inventors Cochlear, and the hearing aid company Oticon.

" Two of Wilson's closest advisors, Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, were avid Zionists.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

Two awards are presented each year, one to a Houston Astro and one to a St. Louis Cardinal, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being " a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.

Two more ABC-aired Super Bowls would occur during major anniversary seasons for MNF-Super Bowl XXIX ( also won by the 49ers ) closed out the 25th anniversary season ( 1994 ), and Super Bowl XXXIV ( won by the St. Louis Rams, bitter rivals of the 49ers ) closed out the 30th anniversary season ( 1999 ).

Two were killed in one incident in St. Louis in 1919 ( the local police chief thanked him for killing two wanted bank robbers ).

Two radio stations — KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles — adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so.

Two political parties emerged: the Union for National Progress ( UPRONA ), a multi-ethnic party led by Tutsi Prince Louis Rwagasore and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) supported by Belgium.

Some examples of these de facto rulers are Empress Dowager Cixi of China ( for son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu Emperors ), Prince Alexander Menshikov ( for his former lover Empress Catherine I of Russia ), Grigori Rasputin through Tsarina Alexandra ( for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ), Cardinal Richelieu of France ( for Louis XIII ), and Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily ( for her husband King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ).

Two of Louis XV's other grandchildren, Louis XVIII and Charles X, would occupy the throne of France after the fall of Napoleon I.

Two recent scholars defend Louis XV.

Two major tragedies occurred during the reign of Louis Bonaparte: the explosion of a cargo ship loaded with gunpowder in the heart of the city of Leiden in 1807, and a major flood in Holland in 1809.

File: Two Rupees, Louis Braille. jpg | Ferritic stainless steel Rs. 2 coins ( India, 2009 ) issued for Braille's birthday bicentennial.

Two other clubs, the Kentucky Colonels, and the Spirits of St. Louis, were disbanded upon the merger.

Two scientists, an American and Canadian respectively, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, died after mishandling the same plutonium mass.

Two major trackage lines of the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Springfield Division converge at Turrell ( the Thayer South and the River subdivisions ), which funnel trains from the Springfield, Missouri yard, and the St. Louis yard, respectively, to Turrell.

Two years later, Lambert purchased the field outright ; on February 7, 1928, he sold it to the city of Saint Louis at cost, allowing it to become the first city-operated airport and the precursor of today's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Two notable buildings in Willoughby Hills are the Squire's Castle in the Cleveland Metroparks ' North Chagrin Reservation and the Louis Penfield House, a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Two railroads, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway ( now controlled by Union Pacific ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway or " Frisco " ( now controlled by BNSF ), intersect in Claremore.

Two years later the town had a school, a bank, and a newspaper, the Post City Post, the same name as the daily in St. Louis, Missouri.

Two of the most recent of her thirteen non-fiction books are Marie Antoinette: The Journey ( 2001, 2002 ), which has been made into the film Marie Antoinette ( 2006 ), directed by Sofia Coppola, with Kirsten Dunst in the title role, and Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King ( 2006 ).

Two years later, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached the town.

Two more reserve brigades under General of Brigade Louis Lemoine attacked Trompettes.

He was baptised with the names Ferdinand Philippe Louis Charles Henri Joseph, his forenames in honour of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Philippe Égalité, his grandfathers.