Whilst the British Army has the capability there is no standing UK Corps organisation, forces being allocated through a number of multi-partite arrangements to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) and European commitments, providing much of the headquarters capability and framework for the multinational Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

Whilst Bodyguard was the overall deception strategy for the Allied invasion, under Operation Overlord, the implementation took the form of many sub-operations.

Whilst the old Command HQ and most other buildings are now empty and being looked after under a care and maintenance programme, the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency ( formed by a merger of AFPAA and the Veterans Agency, in April 2007 ) including the MoD Medal Office and JCCC ( Tri-Service Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre ) continues to operate from the site and in 2010 the base became home to the NATO Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ( HQ ARRC ) which relocated to Innsworth from the Rheindahlen Military Complex in Germany.

Whilst the radar facilities of the Clee Hills protect aircraft, both hills were once a hazard to aircraft, and a memorial commemorates the 23 Allied and German airmen killed here when their planes crashed into Brown Clee during World War II.

Whilst these preparations were underway, the lugger Ocean managed to rescue five of the Northern Belle's crew, leaving some 25 men still on board the stricken vessel.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

Whilst this was primarily an English event, the so-called " Glorious Revolution " had a great impact on Scottish history.

Whilst William and Mary accepted limits on royal power, under the Bill of Rights ( a contract between themselves and the English parliament ), Scotland had an equivalent document in the Claim of Rights.

Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith she supported.

Bahā ' ad-Dīn writes, " Whilst we were there they brought two Franks to the Sultan ( Saladin ) who had been made prisoners by the advance guard.

Whilst Aengus was away the Dagda shared out his land among his children, but Aengus returned to discover that nothing had been saved for him.

Whilst Schmidt was told that Caroli had sold him out, and in anger he swapped sides.

Whilst most observers had, at the beginning of the talks, anticipated independence as the most likely outcome, others suggested that a rapid resolution might not be preferable.

Whilst the draft resolution on Kosovo's status had yet to be endorsed by the Security Council, senior US officials had been suggesting that an agreement might be reached by 2008.

Whilst he carefully avoided any cities that were hostile, he did attempt to besiege Milan, which failed due to the small army he had at his disposal.

Whilst this is, strictly speaking, true, it also disguises the fact that the decline had several different causes.

Whilst at Bremen, Engels began reading the philosophy of Hegel, whose teachings had dominated German philosophy at the time.

Whilst Isabella had been able to work with Gaveston, Edward's previous favourite, it became increasingly clear that Hugh the younger and Isabella could not work out a similar compromise.

Whilst doing this, the physician reiterates the fact that these two ventricles move together almost simultaneously and not independently like had been thought previously by his predecessors.

Whilst widely criticised at the time, over the longer term the decision can be seen as a logical culmination of the withdrawal from Britain's colonial-era political and military commitments in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere that had been underway under British governments of both parties since the Second World War – and of the parallel switch of Britain's emphasis to its European identity.

Whilst chasing it he encountered a local clergyman in a state of considerable distress who had mistaken his carriage, with its billowing smoke and fire burning under the boiler, for the devil.

Whilst recovering from the fever, Rivers had formed a friendship with one of his father's speech therapy students, a young Army surgeon.

Whilst progressing towards Brittany, the King, already overwrought by the slow progress, was shocked by a madman who spent half-an-hour following the procession, warning the King that he had been betrayed ; when a page dropped a lance, the King reacted by killing several of his knights, and had to be wrestled to the ground.

Whilst working at the Institute, Childe took up residence at Lawn Road Flats near to Hampstead, an apartment block perhaps recommended to him by the popular crime fiction author Agatha Christie ( the wife of his colleague Max Mallowan ), who had lived there during the Second World War.

Whilst the full number of gods and goddesses found in Mesopotamia is not known, K. Tallqvist, in his Akkadische Götterepitheta ( 1938 ) counted around two thousand four hundred that we now know about, most of which had Sumerian names.

Whilst at his prep school in Sussex ( 1911-1916 ), Wells had been a favourite author of Eric Blair / Orwell.

Whilst the stories were shocking in their time, this affectionate portrayal of a forthright and self-assured French girl who blossoms into a charismatic adult is nowadays more likely to be regarded as chastely sensual.

Whilst the English term resembles the French marbre, most other European languages ( e. g. Spanish mármol, Italian marmo, Portuguese mármore, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish marmor, Armenian marmar, Dutch marmer, Polish marmur, Turkish mermer, Czech mramor and Russian мрáмор ) follow the original Greek.

Whilst some of this was aimed at military targets, a significant amount was invested in a terror campaign against those in any way deemed to be supporting or encouraging French authority.

Whilst Wellington besieged Almeida, Masséna reformed his battered army and marched to relieve the French garrison in the city.

Whilst Inchbald kept the historical setting, it was clear that The Massacre was also a reference to the recent September Massacres of the French Revolution.

Whilst stationed in Paris Dmitri Tatischeff married a French woman, Rose Anahalie Alinquant.

: Whilst with their French brothers the croppies lie down.

Whilst undergoing construction, this was attacked by a French force which had fought its way over Culver Down from Whitecliff Bay, resulting in the French being repulsed.

Whilst that makes him the first Olympic medallist ( and one of only two, along with Josy Barthel, ever ) from the country, the International Olympic Committee contends that he competed for France, and, hence, the medal is always credited to the French.

Whilst concerned mainly with poetry and theory, Surrealism created a number of works that continued in the French tradition of the Livre d ' Artiste, whilst simultaneously subverting it.

Whilst his works are rarely taught in French schools, his books are very popular in France.

Whilst initially the Modulor Man's height was based on a French man's height of it was changed to in 1946 because " in English detective novels, the good-looking men, such as policemen, are always six feet tall!

Whilst a part of the First French Empire, the republic was known in French as or.

Whilst still a student Ozanam took up journalism and contributed considerably to Bailly's Tribune catholique, which became L ' Univers, a French Roman Catholic daily newspaper that took a strongly ultramontane position.

Whilst attempting to land, a French navy frigate collides with their boat.

Whilst among the humanists of Liège, he had adopted Protestant opinions, and entering the service of Cardinal du Bellay, was employed in the futile negotiations of the French court to make an alliance with the German Protestants against the Emperor Charles V. In 1542 he settled at Strasbourg.

Whilst the entrance on the inland side remained relatively basic, the building work created a grander impression from the estuary – any visitors to London, English or French, would have passed by Queenborough Castle on the south bank and Hadleigh on the north, the combination communicating a strong sense of royal power.

Whilst Henry's intentions after the end of the siege are unclear he had clearly entered France with an army large enough to engage the French in open battle and not merely to lay siege to one town.

Whilst abroad he spent extended tours on the front lines, and had formed a strong personal bond with the soldiers that he visited, particularly those recovering in English and French hospitals.

Whilst working as Writer in Residence at Renfrew District Libraries in 1990 Leonard compiled Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War, an anthology resurrecting the work of long forgotten poets from the West of Scotland and disproving the “ traditional ”, fictitious belief that Scotland at that time was a cultural wasteland.

Whilst Pierre Bourdieu gained significant critical acclaim for his continued work on cultural capital, certain French sociologists, particularly Jean Baudrillard and Michel Maffesoli, were criticised for perceived obfuscation and relativism.

Whilst this was a great achievement for French engineering and was for the greater good of France, it meant that the old village of Tignes was drowned.