The financial year closed with an extraordinary profit of BEF 149 million against BEF 947 million in 1999, i.e. a reduction of BEF 798 million. |
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However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau. |
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Construction of a creche and a reception centre for street children. 200.000 BEF Peru Instituto Ecologico Desarollo. |
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The BEF has to confirm the host city for the WEG by November 15 of this year. |
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The income from overhead and the partial recovery of direct costs has gone up from 16 to 28 million BEF core. |
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Interest charges on the federal debt increased slightly in absolute terms in 2000 relative to 1999 by increasing from BEF 586.9 to 592 billion. |
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On 26 May, it was decided to evacuate as many troops from Dunkirk so operations were directed to support the beleaguered BEF forces around the town. |
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The extensive investments in infrastructure, marketing, and product development at both Bob Evans Restaurants and BEF Foods have been undertaken to deliver on these criteria. |
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As it happened, it was Worldwide Investors SA, a Luxembourg investment company, which on 26 June 1998 put up the BEF 100 million to increase Verlipack's capital. |
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Furthermore, BEF 948.4 million commercial NMKN loans were transfered from the former DAF of which BEF 644.5 million contained a State guarantee without charging the usual premium. |
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Even before the Belgian capitulation, the British government had decided to evacuate the BEF by sea from Dunkirk, and the admiralty had been collecting every kind of small craft to help in bringing away the troops. |
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The BEF, accordingly, was deployed between La Bassée and Ypres, while on the left the Belgians who had wisely declined to participate in the projected attack continued the front along the Yser down to the Channel. |
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The BEF is responsible for the development and implementation of departmental policy on second official language instruction and for the development of the associated curricula. |
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Notice the BEF is stationed in the Pas de Calais area along with the RAF to assist the French in the effort to turn away the German attack on France. |
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The Dutch State and the Flemish region respectively contributed HFL 155 million and BEF 983.7 million equity capital and HFL 40 million and BEF 370 million risk-bearing loans. |
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Wrong-footed and exposed, the BEF fought some masterly, if costly, actions and played its part in General Joffre's counterstroke on the Marne. |
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The new French Sixth Army, linked with the left of the BEF, west of the Marne at Meaux, to Pontoise north of Paris. |
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The BEF was ordered to make a general advance on 16 October, as the German forces were falling back. |
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On 18 October, the III Corps was ordered to join an offensive by the BEF and the French army, by attacking down the Lys valley. |
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The BEF and the French First Army were not yet entrenched, and the news of the defeat on the Belgian border was unwelcome. |
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No lender would have agreed to write off BEF 250 million to refinance Verlipack, its operating results before the arrival of Heye very clearly pointing up the groups difficulties. |
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Deconsolidation and retirals account for an amount of BEF 695 million. |
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On 20 May, the BEF sent Brigadier Gerald Whitfield to Dunkirk to start evacuating unnecessary personnel. |
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The BEF had set up a Meteorological Section under Ernest Gold in 1915, which by the end of 1917 had 16 officers and 82 men. |
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The French escaped encirclement and gave invaluable support to the BEF in Dunkirk two weeks later. |
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The evacuation of the second BEF took place during Operation Ariel between 15 and 25 June. |
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When leave from the BEF began in December, Boulogne was used for communication and for troop movements. |
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As the BEF withdrew through Belgium into northern France, fewer supply troops were needed as the lines of communication shortened. |
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The BEF, French and Belgian forces were evacuated from Dunkirk on the French North Sea coast in Operation Dynamo. |
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By 19 October, the BEF had received 25,000 vehicles to complete the first deployment. |
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Over the next few months, more troops and equipment began to arrive in France and by 13 March 1940, the BEF had doubled in size to 394,165 men. |
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The BEF was unable to repel the Germans and it became clear that the Channel ports were threatened. |
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Gort ordered the BEF to withdraw to Dunkirk, the only port from which the BEF could withdraw. |
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Dieppe was the main medical base of the BEF and Le Havre the principal supply and ordnance source. |
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Beauman lost contact with the BEF GHQ and was also unable to discover if Allied troops were going to dig in on the Somme or further south. |
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The BEF lost 68,000 soldiers during the French campaign and had to abandon nearly all of its tanks, vehicles, and equipment. |
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Working with the BEF were the Belgian Army and the French First, Seventh, and Ninth Armies. |
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Almost all of the 445 British tanks that had been sent to France with the BEF were abandoned. |
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He volunteered to go to The Somme as a tunneller, to work on the four mines the BEF were working on. |
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Early in the war, the BEF was virtually destroyed and was replaced first by volunteers and then a conscript force. |
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On 25 August the French commander Joseph Joffre ordered his forces to retreat to the Marne, which compelled the BEF to further withdraw. |
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The Cabinet were mistaken, as most of the fodder was for the horses, donkeys and mules, which the BEF used to move supplies and heavy equipment. |
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Half of BEF supplies came into Le Havre, Rouen and Dieppe and passed by train through Amiens, making it a major choke point. |
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The BEF advanced from the Belgian border to positions along the River Dyle within Belgium, where they fought elements of Army Group B starting on 10 May. |
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On 10 September, the French armies and the BEF advanced to exploit the victory of the Marne and the armies on the left flank advanced, opposed only by rearguards. |
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When leave from the BEF began in December, Calais was used for communication and for troop movements, especially for men granted compassionate leave. |
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Haig predicted that the war would last several years and that an army of a million men, trained by officers and NCOs withdrawn from the BEF, would be needed. |
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The BEF landed in France on 14 August and advanced into Belgium, where French took up positions on the left of General Lanrezac's French Fifth Army at Charleroi. |
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The BEF constituted 10 percent of the Allied forces on the Western Front. |
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The retreat caused Sir John French to question the competence of his Allies resulting in further indecision and led to his decision to withdraw the BEF south of the Seine. |
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By late spring the BEF had taken just over 300,000 casualties. |
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The BEF lost 11,014 men killed or who died of their wounds, 14,074 soldiers wounded and 41,338 men missing or taken prisoner, a total of 66,426 men. |
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By 21 May, German forces had trapped the BEF, the remains of the Belgian forces, and three French field armies along the northern coast of France. |
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General Douglas Haig, commander of the BEF, noted this event in his diary. |
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For the next four months, the Dutch and Belgian armies laboured over their defences, the BEF expanded and the French army received more equipment and training. |
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The missing dead of the BEF are commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. |
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On 22 August the BEF advanced and on 23 August fought the Battle of Mons, a delaying action against the German 1st Army, to protect the left flank of the French Fifth Army. |
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Initial plans called for the recovery of 45,000 men from the BEF within two days, at which time German troops were expected to block further evacuation. |
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A main railway line linking the bases and connecting them with bases further west in Normandy and with the BEF in the north, ran through Rouen, Abbeville and Amiens. |
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Had the German Spring Offensive of 1918 succeeded in breaking through the front and capturing or even threatening the ports, the BEF would have been in a desperate position. |
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