Whilst Duroc lay dying inside a farmhouse he requested Napoleon's presence where he apologised to the Emperor for not being able to serve him further, asked him to be a father to his daughter, and then requested him to withdraw so that he was not present at the moment of death.

Whilst one side favoured shock action and had faith in the effectiveness of the sword and lance, the opposite contended that the cavalry ’ s future lay in serving as mounted infantry.

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 traveling north to face Douglas, Bruce began to think about where his loyalties truly lay.

Whilst working for the Robinsons, Anne and her sisters considered the possibility of setting up a school.

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

Whilst some see him as a high-minded idealist, his stay in power culminated in a crisis in 1549 when many counties of the realm were up in protest.

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

Whilst on the surface the new Potsdamer Platz appears so far to have lived up to its expectations as a futuristic centre of commerce at the heart of Europe's youngest capital city, there has been much debate as to just how successful it really is.

Whilst meantime, in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Council of National Unity was set up ; this body functioned from 1944 to 1945 as the parliament of the Polish Underground State.

Whilst engaged in writing in his spare time, Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that " I couldn't write and teach ; the energies were too similar ", and so began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.

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 in prison, Cowans earned money cleaning up biohazards until he could afford to have the evidence against him tested for DNA.

Whilst there, one of Fleming's friends, Duff Dunbar, gave him a copy of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin to read and suggested that he took the time to write up the bedtime story that Fleming used to tell to tell his son Caspar each evening.

Whilst undertaking the preliminary drawings for the book, Trog tried to make the fudge recipe included in the book and found it was not particularly good: the editors at Jonathan Cape spent a day making up batches from different recipes to find a better one to use.

Whilst Powell was recovering, and in an attempt to keep up momentum, the band released a compilation album Sladest, which topped the UK and Australian charts in the first week of its release.

Whilst at Columbia, he was interviewed for a position at the University of New South Wales, and he returned to Australia in 1975 to take up an appointment as a senior lecturer.

Whilst at school he had some thought of adopting the medical profession, but he was so shocked at the sight of an operation that he gave up the idea.

Whilst at Cambridge he tended to Whiggism, and up to the end of 1829 he continued to have these sympathies, but during the agitation for parliamentary reform his opinions changed, and when he was returned to parliament for St Germans ( 17 December 1830 ), his election was due to the Tory party.

Whilst stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of New York and New Jersey Avenue shortly after midnight, a passenger of a nearby car threatened Cam ' ron to " give up " his 2006 Lamborghini.

Whilst up on Leanen Hill at her grandmother's suggestion, Molly learns that Tim has run away and resolves to find him again.

Whilst the band initially disliked the Fairlight, it ended up becoming useful.

Whilst in England King married Anna Josepha Coombe ( His First Cousin ) on 11 March 1791 and returned shortly after on HMS Gorgon to take up his post as Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island, at an annual salary of £ 250.

Whilst the railway line was brought up along with the rest of the Tewkesbury to Upton-upon-Severn railway line ( originally running to Malvern ) in 1961, the two barges " Chaceley " and " Tirley " remained in service right up to 1998 transporting grain from Avonmouth and Sharpness to the plant.

Whilst there, Prison Officer Mick O ' Hagan encouraged him to take up art, and Bronson focused on cartooning.

Whilst the Party was officially established in July 1921, the Chinese Socialist Youth League was organized with the Party being set up throughout the country.

Whilst the origins of Loudoun's name are up for debate, it is known that by 1186 the name was used to describe the surrounding area, as in this year a Royal Charter granted the Lands of Lowdun to James de Lambinus.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

Whilst in Baghdad, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá composed a commentary at the request of his father on the Muslim tradition of " I was a Hidden Treasure " for a Súfí leader named ` Alí Shawkat Páshá.

Whilst the magnification of both the field ion and atom probe microscopes is extremely high, the exact magnification is dependant upon conditions specific to the examined specimen, so unlike for conventional electron microscopes, there is often little direct control on magnification, and furthermore, obtained images may have strongly variable magnifications due to fluctuations in the shape of the electric field at the surface.

Whilst at Dorpat he became the director of the eighty-bed University Clinic.

Whilst with Yeovil Botham made an appearance for the Football Association XI ( a representative side for non-league footballers ) against the Northern Football League at Croft Park during the 1984-85 season.

Whilst he was thus deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired his immediate attendance on his colonel ; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Aesculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus.

Whilst at Cambridge, he was treasurer of the Cambridge University Socialist Society and canvassed for the Labour candidate for Cambridge in the 1931 election.

Whilst there, he staged regular Merz recitals, including a performance of Silence, his first poem in English, but was apparently seen as a somewhat pathetic irrelevant figure by other artists at the camp.

Whilst seaborne raids were nothing new at the time the Vikings refined the practice to a science through their shipbuilding, tactics and training.

Whilst this is primarily a defensive style, wickets were achieved by forcing a batsman to make a rash stroke or even bowling at the stumps instead of the retreating batsman.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

Whilst this story might be quoted as part of a justification for moving from act to rule utilitarianism McCloskey anticipates this and points out that each rule has to be judged on its utility and it is not at all obvious that a rule with exceptions has less utility.

A postscript at the end of the published volume of transactions containing Darwin's paper states that " Whilst the last pages of this volume were in the press, Dr Withering of Birmingham ... published a numerous collection of cases in which foxglove has been given, and frequently with good success ".

Whilst racing at Alessandria in the Circuito di Pietro Bordino race, Nuvolari crashed whilst avoiding Carlo Felice Trossi's stricken car.

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 attacking the island of Guernsey, he abandons the invasion in order to fight for France at La Rochelle.

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

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 at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his longtime collaborator Hugh Laurie.

Whilst there, Telemachus is again treated as an honored guest as Menelaus and Helen tell complementary, yet contradictory stories of his father's exploits at Troy.

Whilst at Edinburgh University, Childe continued writing and publishing books on archaeology, beginning with a series of works that followed on from The Dawn of European Civilisation and The Aryans by compiling and synthesising data from across Europe.