The French Atlantic Fleet , under Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse , was tasked Confronting_problem with keeping Preserving the British Channel Fleet occupied Placing long enough for the convoy to reach Arriving France safely .

Villaret however , claimed Statement strategic success Earnings_and_losses as his delaying Change_event_time tactics had bought Supply enough time for the convoy Patrolling to reach Arriving France safely .

Wreckage recovered Recovering was seized Hold by France 's military .

Midem is the acronym for Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale , which is organised Arranging annually in and around the Palais des Festivals Social_event et des Congrès in Cannes , France .

Operation Frankton was a commando raid Attack on shipping in the Nazi German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War .

Nicolas Anelka of France scored Getting the first goal in Club World Cup history , while Brazilian champions Competition Corinthians ' goalkeeper Dida posted Sending the first official clean sheet in the tournament Competition .

Setting Process_start sail Motion from Cap-Français in 1782 , the expedition Attack was part of a global naval war Hostile_encounter between France and Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War .

Operating Being_in_operation under secret orders from the Marquis de Castries , France 's marine minister , La Pérouse sailed Motion from Cap-Français in May 1782 , and arrived at Arriving the Prince of Wales Fort in early August .

At the time of the accident , 39 A380s were operating Being_in_operation with five airlines : Qantas , Air France , Emirates , Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines .

It also led to Causation groundings , inspections and engine replacements on some other Rolls-Royce powered Influence A380s in service with Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines , but not in the A380 fleets of Air France or Emirates , which were powered Influence by Engine Alliance engines .

The Battle Military_operation of Orthez ( 27 February 1814 ) saw the Anglo-Portuguese Army under Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley , Marquess of Wellington attack Attack an Imperial French army led Bringing by Marshal Nicolas Soult in southern France .

German military operations in Belgium were intended to bring Bringing the 1st , 2nd and 3rd armies into positions in Belgium from which they could invade Attack France , which , after the fall Motion_directional of Liège on 7 August , led to Causation sieges Besieging of Belgian fortresses along the Meuse river at Namur and the surrender Surrendering of the last forts ( 16–17 August ) .

After the Battle Hostile_encounter of Mons and the Battle Hostile_encounter of Charleroi , the bulk of the German armies marched Self_motion south into France , leaving Departing small forces to garrison Brussels and the Belgian railways .

German troop withdrawals Departing to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength the main armies in France were postponed Change_event_time to repulse a Belgian sortie from 9 to 13 September and a German corps in transit Motion was retained Preserving in Belgium for several days .

After the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Frontiers ended Process_end , the French armies and the BEF began Process_start the Great Retreat into France , the Belgian army and small detachments of French and British troops fought Hostile_encounter in Belgium against German cavalry and .

Royal Marines landed Arriving in France on and began Process_start scouting Scrutiny unoccupied Belgium in motor cars ; an RNAS Armoured Car Section was created Creating by fitting vehicles with bulletproof steel .

Military operations in Belgium also moved Motion westwards as the Belgian army withdrew Escaping from Antwerp to the area close to the border with France .

Norway won the title for the second time after defeating Conquering France 32–24 in the final , thus became Becoming only the second team after Denmark to possess Getting the World Championship , European Championship and Olympic Games title in the same time .

France , on the other hand , lost Earnings_and_losses its second consecutive World Championship final after fell short against Russia in 2009 .

The F-15 pilots fired Use_firearm on and destroyed Destroying both helicopters , killing Killing all 26 military and civilians aboard , including personnel from the United States , United Kingdom , France , Turkey , and the Kurdish community .

The Phoney period began Process_start with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 , and ended Process_end with the German invasion Attack of France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 .

The Phoney period began Process_start with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 , and ended Process_end with the German invasion Attack of France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 .

In November , the Soviets attacked Attack Finland in the Winter War , resulting in much debate in France and Britain about an offensive to help Finland , but the forces finally assembled Come_together for this campaign were delayed Change_event_time until it ended Process_end in March .

Fighting Hostile_encounter there continued until June when the Allies evacuated Escaping , ceding GiveUp Norway to Germany in response to the German invasion of France .

The Group of Seven ( G7 ) was an unofficial forum which brought together Come_together the heads Self_motion of the richest industrialized countries : France , Germany , Italy , Japan , the United Kingdom , the United States and Canada starting Process_start in 1976 .

The summits Social_event were not meant to be linked Connect formally with wider international institutions ; and in fact , a mild rebellion Change_of_leadership against the stiff formality of other international meetings Communication was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France 's President Giscard d'Estaing and Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived Creating the initial summit Social_event of the Group of Six ( G6 ) in 1975 .

Operation Military_operation Rugby was itself part of the Operation Dragoon invasion Military_operation of Southern France by the American 7th Army .

As a British withdrawal Escaping from France at the earliest opportunity had been the original intent , the brigade boarded Self_motion ships bound for Italy eleven days after landing Self_motion .

The Invasion Attack of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation Military_operation by which the Kingdom of France , ruled Control by Charles X , invaded Attack and conquered Conquering the Ottoman Regency of Algiers .

While the war 's Irish name emphasises its aspect as a domestic conflict between James and William , some contemporaries and many modern commentators have viewed Perception_active it as part of a wider European conflict known as the Nine Years ' War or War of the Grand Alliance in which William , as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic , led a multi-national coalition against France under Louis XIV .

The Rif War Military_operation was an armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter from 1920 to 1927 between the colonial power Spain ( later joined Becoming_a_member by France ) and the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region of Morocco .

After France 's military intervention Hostile_encounter against Abd el-Krim 's forces and the major landing Self_motion of Spanish troops at Al Hoceima , considered the first amphibious landing in history to involve Participation the use of tanks and aircraft , Abd el-Krim surrendered Surrendering to the French and was taken Bringing into exile .

Others consider Convincing it one of the last colonial wars Military_operation , as it was the decision of the Spanish to conquer Conquering the Rif — nominally part of their Moroccan protectorate but `` de facto '' independent — that catalyzed the entry of France in 1924 .

Operation Military_operation Dragoon ( initially Operation Anvil ) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15August 1944 .

The Germans were not able to hold Defending Dijon and ordered Arranging a complete withdrawal Escaping from Southern France .

It enabled them to liberate Conquering most of Southern France in a time span of only four weeks , while inflicting Causation heavy casualties Death on the German forces Military_operation , although a substantial part of the best German units were able to escape Escaping .

The religious and political divisions sowed by the conflict blocked Hiding_objects centralization as was occurring Coming_to_be in France , England and Spain at the time .

The revolution Change_of_leadership , which occurred Coming_to_be at the same time as revolutions Change_of_leadership in France and Liège , led to Causation the brief overthrow Change_of_leadership of Habsburg rule Control and the proclamation Statement of a short-lived polity , the United Belgian States .

The Fronde ( ) was a series of civil wars Hostile_encounter in France between 1648 and 1653 , occurring Coming_to_be in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War , which had begun Process_start in 1635 .

The dispute Quarreling started Process_start when the government of France issued seven fiscal edicts , six of which were to increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale taxation .

The nuclei of the armed bands that terrorized parts of France under aristocratic leaders during this period had been hardened Cause_change_of_strength in a generation of war Hostile_encounter in Germany , where troops still tended to operate Being_in_operation autonomously .

Falkenhayn reconsidered Deciding German strategy over the winter , because and a dictated peace against France and Russia had been shown to be beyond German resources .

Falkenhayn intended to detach Removing Russia or France from the Allied coalition Cause_to_amalgamate by diplomatic as well as military action .

Willaumez eventually returned Arriving to France , although without many of his squadron who were destroyed Destroying by British operations or Atlantic gales .

Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre , in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 1940 , towards the end of the Battle of France , during the Second World War .

South of the river , the Allies improvised Hold defences and made Creating local counter-attacks , to dislodge Removing the Germans from bridgeheads on the south bank and re-capture river crossings for an advance northwards to regain Recovering contact with the armies in northern France and Flanders .

The 1st Armoured Division arrived in Arriving France from 15 May , without artillery and short of units that had been diverted Removing to Calais .

The French Wars of Religion were a prolonged Change_event_time period of war Hostile_encounter and popular unrest Hostile_encounter between Catholics and Huguenots ( Reformed/Calvinist Protestants ) in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598 .

Much of the conflict Hostile_encounter took place Hold during the long regency of Queen Catherine de ' Medici , widow of Henry II of France , for her minor sons .

The edict of Nantes was revoked Removing later in 1685 with the Edict of Fontainebleau by Louis XIV of France .