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Sentence Examples When it became known that both ships had berthed in Brest, Bomber Command made them a primary target following an order from Winston Churchill. Whatever the cause, France ratted on his agreement, retaking Brest by force. That attempt ended 85 days, two hurricanes and 15 capsizes later with her rescue by a freighter just 950 miles from her goal, Brest, France. In fact, the eventual winner took on no food nor musette bag at the Brest control and carried only three water bottles. In France special prison bagnios were constructed in the eighteenth century at Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, and Lorient. He lived in Borisy and worked in Brest, travelling to and fro by train via the station at Domachevo. It would seem reasonable for an Anglo-French alliance to agree that no fleets will be built in Brest and Liverpool without the other's prior agreement. Le Goulet is the entrance to the sheltered harbour of Brest. Inland and northwest of Brest, the Kerloas menhir is a huge megalithic standing stone. Released from Lille's academy due to poor academic results, he went on a mystery tour of France, turning out for Boulogne, Ales and then Brest. The 600 forced labourers of the penal colony at Brest, condemned to forced labour for life, were encouraged to work by the promise of a pardon. A wish that grew from sailing in the Brest harbour onboard a small wooden boat and from reading books on the history of sailing. Writer-director Brest worked at Bronx State Hospital during college where he observed the behaviors of various patients. Be vigilant when crossing the border with Poland at Brest due to the risk of mugging. This concert, which went on like many others before it, was at the origin of legal proceedings involving the foursome from Brest. The new investors are IINSERM Transfert Initiative, one of the main sources of seed venture capital funds in France for biotechnology companies, and Finistère Angels, an angel investor group based in Brest. In the same year, under the auspices of the Autumn Festival he directed Shakespeare's Cymbeline produced by Quartz de Brest and the Théâtre des Amandiers de Nanterre. The history of the Arsenals starts under Charles VIII at the end of the 15th century and ends in the middle of the 18th century when the last galley slaves were dispersed between the prisons of Brest, La Rochelle and Toulon. If the place is idealised it isn't because the place is utopian, it's because the musicians are referring to Lambezellec, a quarter of Brest where they used to hang out. On the 1st March a hire purchase agreement was signed enabling two more Egmopol barges to be withdrawn from the Polmar stockpiles in Brest for shipment to Wales. Show More Sentences While her predecessor was based in Brest, the supply vessel Ria de Vigo is based in Spain and is the property of the shipping company Remolcanosa. During the war the British had instituted a new system of blockade, by which they penned in the main French fleets at anchor in Brest and Toulon. On 18 May 2013, Beckham was made captain in his final home game against Brest. The airline Finistair operates flights on Cessna 208 planes from Brest Bretagne Airport. During 1759, the British, under Hawke, maintained a close blockade on the French coast in the vicinity of Brest. Howard landed forces near Brest, but made no headway against the town and was by now getting low on supplies. The main French fleets were at Brest in Brittany and at Toulon on the Mediterranean coast. He believed that trying to bring warships out of the blockaded port at Brest would cause unnecessary delays, and could be disastrous. There he received orders from Napoleon to return to Brest according to the main plan. The French decided to launch the invasion force entirely from Le Havre, a large harbour some distance from the blockading British fleet at Brest. The invasion plan received a crippling blow in November 1759, when the French Brest Squadron was heavily defeated at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. When Villeneuve set sail from Ferrol on 10 August, he was under orders from Napoleon to sail northward toward Brest. With the Brest fleet destroyed at Quiberon Bay, they were now unable to escort the French troops across the Channel. The evacuation was made more difficult by a lack of information from Brest, St Nazaire and Nantes. Hawke took command of the blockading fleet off Brest and extended the blockade of the French coast from Dunkirk to Marseilles. The attack on Brest took place in daylight on 24 July with a loss of 13 bombers and La Pallice was bombed again by 15 Handley Page Halifaxes. Having received her DNSEP from the school of the Art schools of Brest in 1988, Corinne VOMSCHEID has, for the past twenty years, expressed herself on her favorite subject: The Woman. A young graduate of the Brest School of Art, Céline Cuisinier specialises in sensory experiences based on installations and other works involving food and the sense of taste. By 9 February, the ships had completed their trials in Brest roads and the sortie was set for 11 February. Morale of the crews was high, no sabotage had occurred at Brest and the crews went ashore freely. Show More Sentences In April 1941, the Royal Navy and the RAF devised Operation Fuller, a plan for combined operations against the ships in Brest should they sortie. Bomber Command had been alerted that the Brest Group was near Dover and warned the groups to be ready. The seven Beauforts at Thorney Island were closest to the Brest Group when it was sighted. Brest was the principal debarkation port during the last war. As is the case in all the rest of Argoat, the reredos's were all made by Breton artisans and not by the Brest or Laval artisans who used marble and tuffeau. Le Menn runs the metrology-chemistry laboratory of the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service in Brest. Time to start painting, because the yawl is off to Brest a week from now! We owe this knowledge to a modest little craft, called the Bateau de Lanvéoc, which devoted itself to ferry traffic in the broad roadstead of Brest. The Public Prosecutor's Office in Brest has been using an armamentarium of legal provisions so as to ensure a successful outcome for trials and in order to re-route offending vessels. Tensions increased when Commonwealth policies turned from relative tolerance to suppression of the Eastern Orthodox church after the Union of Brest. The French planned to invade the British Isles during 1759 by accumulating troops near the mouth of the Loire and concentrating their Brest and Toulon fleets. The tardiness of Bligh in moving his forces allowed a French force of 10,000 from Brest to catch up with him and open fire on the reembarkation troops. Brittany is the second French region for telecommunication and the fifth for electronics, two activities mainly developed in Rennes, Lannion and Brest. The Museums of Fine Arts of Brest and Quimper offer similar collections, with large quantities of French painting together with the works of some Italian and Dutch artists. Brest and Douarnenez both organise large tall ship meetings. Nesmond, with the remaining two ships Monarque and Aimable, passed through the Strait of Dover, went north around Britain and finally arrived safely at Brest. In the meantime, a small squadron from the West Indies joined Conflans in Brest and, when an easterly wind came on the 14th, Conflans slipped out. In south Brittany the Route nationale 165 performs a similar role along the south coast providing connections between Nantes, Vannes, Lorient, Quimper and Brest. Brittany is on two major TGV lines, one linking Paris to Nantes and Le Croisic, on the south coast, and another linking Paris to Rennes and Brest. Since then, during glacial times, the river mouth was located offshore of Brest, France and rivers, like the River Thames and the Seine, became tributaries to the Rhine. Show More Sentences By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships. Tourville was to bring the French fleet up from Brest and collect the transports and the troops, then fight off the English fleet and land the army in England. The British shared conventional wisdom that any invasion would have to involve the Brest fleet, but kept a close watch on all potential departure points. Conflans had sailed from Brest on 15 November heading a hundred miles down the coast to Quiberon Bay, where the invasion army was now waiting to board his transports. Nantes and St Nazaire, the most important ports, were covered by 1 Squadron, 73 Squadron and 242 Squadron, with a small detachment covering Brest. At the start of the month, the Brest Group was made the Bomber Command priority again and from 11 December, bombing and minelaying took place nightly. Gneisenau was damaged on the evening of 6 January and between 10 December and 20 January 1942, 37 percent of Bomber Command sorties were flown against the ships at Brest. Hitler noted that the ships at Brest had diverted British bombing from Germany but that the advantage would end as soon as the ships were sufficiently damaged. Line South East, part of Operation Fuller, ran past Ushant to the vicinity of Jersey, to find a sortie from Brest which had turned up the Channel. The destroyers sailed south to intercept the Brest Group but it steamed much faster than expected and to catch up, Pizey took the destroyers over a German minefield. On 11 April, Howard's force arrived off Brest only to see a small enemy force join with the larger force in the safety of Brest harbour and its fortifications. The main strategic idea involved the French Navy escaping from the British blockades of Toulon and Brest and threatening to attack the West Indies. Examples from Classical Literature This was one of the precious stones that was sett in the brest lapp of Aron. Maitland immediately sent the Alcmene to the fleet off Brest, himself keeping company with the Frenchmen. Two or three friends will accompany me, and my intention was to start for Brest or Le Havre to-night. It was to command an English prize, lately captured and brought into Brest. In about a week, our ship's company will return to Brest, and sail for the United States. The child of Finnish sea-folk who had drifted to Brest and died there, she had been adopted by an old Breton sea-dog and his wife. Brest FDR Officers, galloping in red coats, are shot as Swiss. We shall probably be sent to watch Brest, or l'Orient, or some other port. Or it may be that they want to get news of what ships there are in Brest. The two portions from Brest and Cherbourg had now united their forces. Dsir Bloas often talked to me about his mother, who lived near Brest. We have received no intelligence of the sailing of the Brest fleet. It takes rank with Brest as the western outpost of modern France. Find more words! 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