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Sir John was still keen for a concerted Anglo-French attack, telling Foch (28 September) that a gap could be "rushed" just north of Hill 70, although Foch felt that this would be difficult to co-ordinate and Haig told him that First Army was not in a position for further attacks at the moment. Charteris wrote that "Sir John French is played out.
The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, [2] and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant, an island at the mouth of the English Channel off the westernmost point of France. "Ushant" is the anglicised pronunciation of ...
The Anglo-French War, also known as the War of 1778 [1] or the Bourbon War in Britain, was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain, sometimes with their respective allies, between 1778 and 1783. [a] As a consequence, Great Britain was forced to divert resources used to fight the American War of Independence (the rebellion by ...
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Oct 10, 2015 · Early in the conflict, when collaboration between Sir John French and the French military commanders was giving rise to optimism (Image: Archant). Figures like these are difficult to comprehend a ...
His sudden death from a heart attack on the way to the front in August 1914 was greatly lamented in France,51 and a cruel blow to the military entente when all that he had worked towards for the past ten years was about to be put to the test. Sir John French was the rising star of the British Army before 1914.
Jul 31, 2017 · On 7 July 1715, after three months of intense scrutiny, Walpole’s parliamentary committee reported the articles of impeachment against Oxford and Bolingbroke, followed a month later by those against James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond, who, succeeding John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, had served as Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1711 to 1714.
Footnote 18 Naval and diplomatic actors carried multilateral decisions into effect with various concerted interventions, including the Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers (1816), the creation of a Spanish–Dutch maritime alliance (1816–24), great power communications to the Sublime Porte in Istanbul (1819), and an Anglo-French diplomatic ...
