* 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 of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.

Two battered ships drift in the foreground while smoke and flame boil from a third.

Two Panamax ships in the Miraflores ( Panama ) | Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, Panama.

Two United States navy ships, USS Centaurus ( AKA-17 ) and USS Centaurus ( AK-264 ), are named after the constellation.

Two Dutch ships and numerous Chinese trading junks are depicted.

* 1903: Two first diesel-powered ships were launched, both for river and canal operations: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and Vandal tanker in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission.

Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force ( AFP ) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two ( MPSRON 2 ) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.

The atoll shelters the ships of the US Marine Pre-positioning Squadron Two.

Two ships of the United States Navy were named Ethan Allen in his honor, as were two 19th-century fortifications: a Civil War fort in Arlington, Virginia and a cavalry outpost in Colchester and Essex, Vermont.

Two of its ships, financed by merchants from Amsterdam and Enkhuizen, reached Jan Mayen in July 1614.

Two ships of the Prinz Adalbert class were commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon class commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million GM each.

Two more ships of the class were later laid down, but never completed.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ), and the from the World War II – era, were named after him.

Two U-boats that survived Operation Deadlight are today museum ships.

Two ships of the Continental Navy were named Enterprise:

* June – Two ships enter the Bristol Channel bringing the bubonic plague to England.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Salt Lake City, in honor of the city in Utah which has served successively as the capital of the Provisional State of Deseret, the Utah Territory, and the 45th state.

Two of the ships were wrecked off Cyprus, but the ship bearing Joan and Berengaria made it safely to Limassol.

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named after the city, including USS Montgomery ( LCS-8 ).

Two survey ships were named for him, the A. D. Bache of 1871 and its successor in 1901.

Two members of Bouchard's contingent made contact with the garrison soldiers and made their demand for provisions, which was rebuffed with added threats: Lieutenant Argüello replied that if the ships did not sail away the garrison would gladly provide " an immediate supply of shot and shell ".

Two Royal Norwegian Navy ships – King Haakon VII, an escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951, and Haakon VII, a training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974 — have been named after King Haakon VII.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sidon after Sidon, a city in Lebanon: