The battle Hostile_encounter was a rare French victory , lying Placing between the significant British victories at the Glorious First of June and the Battle Hostile_encounter of Groix , in the Royal Navy campaign Military_operation against the French fleet at Brest .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Quiberon Bay ( known as Bataille des Cardinaux in French ) was a decisive naval engagement fought Hostile_encounter on 20 November 1759 during the Seven Years ' War between the Royal Navy and the French Navy .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Quiberon Bay ( known as Bataille des Cardinaux in French ) was a decisive naval engagement fought Hostile_encounter on 20 November 1759 during the Seven Years ' War between the Royal Navy and the French Navy .

The battle Hostile_encounter was the culmination of British efforts to eliminate Removing French naval superiority , which could have given Giving the French the ability to carry out Action their planned Arranging invasion of Great Britain .

The battle Hostile_encounter was the culmination of British efforts to eliminate Removing French naval superiority , which could have given Giving the French the ability to carry out Action their planned Arranging invasion of Great Britain .

A British fleet of 24 ships of the line under Sir Edward Hawke tracked Motion down and engaged Hostile_encounter a French fleet of 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans .

After hard fighting Hostile_encounter , the British fleet sank or ran aground six French ships , captured Conquering one and scattered Dispersal the rest , giving Giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories , and ending Process_end the threat Terrorism of French invasion for good .

After hard fighting Hostile_encounter , the British fleet sank or ran aground six French ships , captured Conquering one and scattered Dispersal the rest , giving Giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories , and ending Process_end the threat Terrorism of French invasion for good .

Until the 1990s the festival attracted Influence mostly Flemish festivalgoers , but in recent years it has become Becoming more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch , French , Walloon and British visitors , with notable Australian , South African and other contingents .

The Algiers putsch Change_of_leadership ( or ) , also known as the Generals ' putsch Change_of_leadership ( `` Putsch des généraux '' ) , was a failed coup Change_of_leadership d'état intended to force Request French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon GiveUp French Algeria , along with the resident European community and pro-French Muslims .

The Algiers putsch Change_of_leadership ( or ) , also known as the Generals ' putsch Change_of_leadership ( `` Putsch des généraux '' ) , was a failed coup Change_of_leadership d'état intended to force Request French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon GiveUp French Algeria , along with the resident European community and pro-French Muslims .

The organisers of the putsch were opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to the secret negotiations Communication that French Prime Minister Michel Debré 's government had started Process_start with the anti-colonialist National Liberation Front ( FLN ) .

The coup Change_of_leadership was to come in two phases : an assertion of control Control in French Algeria 's major cities Algiers , Oran and Constantine .

The metropolitan operation Military_operation would be led Conquering by Col. Antoine Argoud , with French paratroopers descending on Arriving strategic airfields .

The following day , President Charles de Gaulle made Action a famous speech on television , dressed Wearing with his 1940s general 's uniform ( he was 70 years old and long retired from the army ) ordering the French people and army to help Assistance him .

On 22 January 2014 , a strong French column of more than a hundred soldiers transported Sending by armored vehicles out of the city of Timbuktu and turns Change towards the northwest , then turns Change east after traveling Traveling fifty kilometers .

On the night of January 22 to 23 , the French attacked Attack a group of jihadists in the desert about 130 kilometers north of Timbuktu .

One resident said Statement the French attack Attack with Special Forces soldiers backed Motion by helicopters .

Officially , according to the French general staff , a dozen `` terrorists Terrorism '' were killed Killing and a French soldier is injured Bodily_harm as a result of an `` act of opportunity . ''

Officially , according to the French general staff , a dozen `` terrorists Terrorism '' were killed Killing and a French soldier is injured Bodily_harm as a result of an `` act of opportunity . ''

According to French and Malian military , the picture is more precisely 11 dead Death on the rebel side and a Salafi injured Bodily_harm prognosis uncommitted for French .

According to French and Malian military , the picture is more precisely 11 dead Death on the rebel side and a Salafi injured Bodily_harm prognosis uncommitted for French .

The Bombardment of Papeete occurred Presence in French Polynesia when German warships attacked Attack on 22 September 1914 , during World War I .

The German armoured cruisers and entered Arriving the port of Papeete on the island of Tahiti and sank Removing the French gunboat and freighter `` Walküre '' before bombarding Attack the town 's fortifications .

French shore batteries and a gunboat resisted Defending the German intrusion but were greatly outgunned .

The main German objective was to seize Conquering the coal piles stored Preserving on the island , but these were destroyed Destroying by the French at the start Process_start of the action .

The German vessels were largely undamaged Damaging but the French lost Earnings_and_losses their gunboat .

The British and French armies would need about eight weeks to rebuild Building roads , bridges and railways in the abandoned GiveUp area before they could attack Attack .

News of the demolitions Destroying and the deplorable condition of French civilians left GiveUp behind by the Germans were serious blows Confronting_problem to German prestige in neutral countries .

Labour was transferred Military_operation south in February 1917 to work Being_in_operation on the from La Fère to Rethel and on the forward positions Placing on the Aisne front , which the Germans knew Know were due to be attacked Attack by the French .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between a French army led Bringing by Napoleon and a small Russian corps commanded Control by Lieutenant General Count Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev .

After putting up Placing a good fight , the Russian formation was effectively destroyed Destroying ; the survivors escaped Escaping into the woods while Olsufiev became Becoming a French prisoner Prison .

The Action of 28 February 1799 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars , fought Hostile_encounter off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal between the French frigate `` Forte '' and the Royal Navy frigate HMS `` Sybille '' .

The Action of 28 February 1799 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars , fought Hostile_encounter off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal between the French frigate `` Forte '' and the Royal Navy frigate HMS `` Sybille '' .

The French frigate was discovered Know at anchor in the sandbanks at the mouth of the Hooghly with two recently captured Conquering British merchant ships .

For unclear reasons the French captain Hubert Le Loup de Beaulieu did not properly prepare GetReady `` Forte '' to receive Receiving the attack Attack from Cooke 's frigate and he was consequently killed Killing in the first raking broadside from the British ship .

The captured merchant ships subsequently escaped Escaping under their French prize crews while Cooke 's executive officer Lieutenant Lucius Hardyman repaired Recovering `` Sybille `` and `` Forte '' .

Operation Undergo was an attack Attack by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on the German garrison and fortifications of the French port of Calais , during September 1944 .

The feint attacks Attack failed to divert Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale German attention from Flanders , which included Cause_to_be_included the transfer Military_operation of ten divisions to the 4th Army , despite claims Statement by the 6th Army command that the British were preparing GetReady an offensive Attack towards Lens ; the operations Military_operation did succeed in diverting German attention from the French front further south .

II Corps asked Request for a delay until 19 November to move Motion artillery forward ; five British divisions were transferred Military_operation to Italy and four British divisions on the coast were sent Sending to take over French positions south of the Somme .

As stadtholder of Holland , William was de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic ; the coalition he built Building after 1678 to defend Defending it against French expansion was threatened by an Anglo-French alliance .

The sinking Motion of the `` Rainbow Warrior '' , codenamed Opération Satanique , was a bombing operation Military_operation by the `` action '' branch of the French foreign intelligence services , the `` Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure '' ( DGSE ) , carried out Action on 10 July 1985 .

During the operation , two operatives sank Motion_directional the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet , the `` Rainbow Warrior '' , at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test Testing in Moruroa .

France initially denied responsibility , but two French agents were captured Conquering by New Zealand Police and charged Judgment_communication with arson , conspiracy to commit Commitment arson Committing_crime , willful damage Damaging , and murder Committing_crime .

As the truth came out , the scandal resulted in Causation the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu .

They spent Expend_resource a little over two years confined to the French island of Hao before being freed Releasing by the French government .

They spent Expend_resource a little over two years confined to the French island of Hao before being freed Releasing by the French government .

ETA had been proscribed Name_conferral as a terrorist Terrorism organization by the Spanish , British , French and American authorities at different moments .

There also were thousands of people injured Bodily_harm , dozens kidnapped Kidnapping and a disputed number going Motion into exile Escaping , either to flee Escaping from the violence Violence or to avoid Preventing_or_letting capture by Spanish or French police or by Europol/Interpol .

This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars , the defeat Conquering of Napoleon at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Waterloo , the second restoration of the French kingdom , and the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena , where he died Death in May 1821 .