Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.

** Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá

Colonisation began in 1603, when the Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa ( New Lisbon ).

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

In 1782, during the American Revolutionary War, a French squadron under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse captured and demolished York Factory and Prince of Wales Fort.

It was a deception ; Toussaint was seized and deported to France, where he died of pneumonia while imprisoned at Fort de Joux in the Jura Mountains in April 1803.

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

D ' Esnambuc claimed Martinique for French King Louis XIII and the French " Compagnie des Îles de l ' Amérique " ( Company of the American Islands ), and established the first European settlement at Fort Saint-Pierre ( now St. Pierre ).

It features four ensembles of pitons ( volcanoes ) and mornes ( mountains ): the Piton Conil on the extreme North, which dominates the Dominica Channel ; Mount Pelée, an active volcano ; the Morne Jacob ; and the Pitons du Carbet, an ensemble of five extinct volcanoes covered with rainforest and dominating the Bay of Fort de France at.

* the Fort de Brégançon, in southeastern France, is the current official presidential vacation residence ;

They were later transferred, together with Anthony Faramus, to Fort de Romainville in Paris.

* June 29 – Seven Years ' War – Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahon: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French after two months ' siege by Armand de Vignerot du Plessis.

* February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, starting the tradition for Mobile, Alabama.

* August 3 – August 9 – French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry.

* June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L ' Ouverture is seized by French troops and is imprisoned at the Fort de Joux.

* February – French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile ( Alabama ) by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart ( the first Mardi Gras parade in America ).

The original settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile was relocated in 1711 to the head of Mobile Bay following a series of floods.

* Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana ( the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated ).

* January 12 – In America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile ( future Mobile, Alabama ) to become the capital of French Louisiana.

We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, Herbert A. Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability to anticipate moves, plays an essential role in chess-playing.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne.

* The central battle was conducted by Philip Augustus and his chief knights-William des Barres, Bartholomew of Roye, Girard Girard said the Scophe Truie, William of Garland, Enguerrand III de Coucy and Gautier de Nemours.

* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.

* The right flank, under the command of Renaud de Dammartin, also includes the Brabant infantry and English knights-under the command of Count William of Salisbury Longespée.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

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A justification had to be given for the rejection of King John in whose name William Wallace and Andrew de Moray had rebelled in 1297.

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.