Without consulting Tallard, Clérambault ordered his reserve battalions into the village, upsetting the balance of the French position and nullifying the French numerical superiority.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

Without informing the rest of the cabinet or Queen Victoria, Palmerston had sent a private note to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's coup and congratulating Louis Bonaparte, himself, on the coup.

Without the forts, the French Army would no longer be able to defend Paris.

Without Austrian aggression, the French could not intervene ; and without French support, Cavour was unwilling to risk war.

Without his prestige the Angevin dynasty might not have survived the disastrous reign of John ; where the French and the rebels would not trust the English king's word, they would trust William.

* Terence Rattigan: French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, and The Browning Version

* Laurent Gerbier, " Un chien sans maître " ( A Dog Without His Master ), Lucien Febvre and the Athism of Rabelais ( French )

Without warning, in 2000 French urban climber Alain " Spiderman " Robert, using only his bare hands, climbing shoes and no safety devices, scaled the obelisk all the way to the top.

He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Without their skirmishers in front of them, the French column blundered into the 945 men of the 50th Regiment.

In January and February 1940 he returned to the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, appearing in French Without Tears.

He produced and performed Army Concert Party work, and in 1945 toured bases and hospitals with two Terence Rattigan plays he directed, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines.

* The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach, the oldest surviving Dutch fictional film is released by Alberts Frères.

* May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907 )

Without the appetite of New England for land, and by relying solely on Aboriginals to supply them with fur at the trading posts, the French composed a complex series of military, commercial, and diplomatic connections.

Without prospect of further French assistance the capitulation at Limerick finally sealed victory for William III and his supporters in Ireland with the signing of the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October ( O. S ).

Without d ' Erlon's corps blocking the Prussians ' line of retreat, the French victory at Ligny was not complete, and the Prussians were not routed.

Without the French army to suppress them, Uri and other rural populations successfully rebelled against the government in the Stecklikrieg.

More recently, the NED has provided funding to the French NGO Reporters Without Borders ( RSF ), which promotes freedom of press, particularly in Cuba.

Without intervening personally in French politics, he took a keen interest in the questions of administration and social reorganization arising from the fall of the imperialist régime and the disasters of the war.

La Belle Dame sans Merci ( French: " The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy " ) is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats.

Without economic incentive, the whole premise of self-interest through environmental protection is quashed ; instead, ecotourism companies will minimize environment related expenses and maximize tourism demand.

Without artificial drainage and flood protection, the Fens would be liable to periodic flooding, particularly in winter due to the heavy load of water flowing down from the uplands and overflowing the rivers.

Without apologising for the remarks, Schreyer said he supported same-sex marriage as the existing legislation did not force religious institutions to marry same-sex couples, and added: " It was 19 years ago, and I didn't even for a split second suggest that there was no need to ensure that there was equal protection of the law with respect to the people who are homosexual.

Without the legal protection afforded to common lands, the surrounding land was ripe for development and a new settlement, taking its name from the Pond, began to grow.

Without an established regulatory agency and an environmental protection infrastructure, enforcement of existing laws was largely ignored.

Without this protection the building began to deteriorate.

Without speculators buying and selling naked CDSs, banks wanting to hedge might not find a ready seller of protection.

Without adequate contact protection, the occurrence of undesired electric arcing causes significant degradation of the contacts, which suffer serious damage.

Without any protection against the assembled mob, the brothers were dragged out of the prison and killed next to a nearby scaffold.

Without the protection of diplomatic immunity he visited internment camps and sheltered Jewish refugees in his house.

Without protection or any rights, they are of the most vulnerable and are at high risk of exploitation or abuse.

Without this process historical properties would lose a significant protection.

Without protection from Tammany Hall, he is later sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing Prison.

Without an MMU, Nios is restricted to operating systems which use a simplified protection and virtual memory-model: e. g., µClinux and FreeRTOS.

Without the driver, games with SafeDisc protection would be unable to play on Windows ".

Without the protection of Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere astronauts are exposed to high levels of radiation.

Without you, when sick I feel most desolate .. Oh Mammy, I do long to be with you and under your protection for then I feel safe.

Without the protection of his father, Xi went to work in Yanchuan County, Yan ' an, Shaanxi, in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement.

Without protection, Evo loses energy at a steady rate.

Without the protection of the Brotherhood Robson does whatever is necessary to survive, becoming Wolfgang Cutler's sex slave so that Cutler would protect him.

When the Peel Commission made its1937 recommendations about partition and population transfer for Palestine, Magnes sounded the alarm: With the permission of the Arabs we will be able to receive hundreds of thousands of persecuted Jews in Arab lands [...] Without the permission of the Arabs even the four hundred thousand that now are in Palestine will remain in danger, in spite of the temporary protection of British bayonets.

Without adequate contact protection, the occurrence of electric current arcing causes significant degradation of the contacts, which suffer significant damage.

Without the protection of dense vegetation, the stone ruins began to rapidly deteriorate.