Sentence examples for french advantage from inspiring English sources

A letter by Henry Pringle, written while held in captivity at Carillon, restored his reputation by clarifying the French advantage following the second ambush; Rogers went on to rebuild his companies and serve in the Battle of Carillon in July 1758.

The history of France in the 14th century is dominated by efforts of its kings to maintain their suzerainty over the Plantagenets in Aquitaine efforts that, despite French advantages, were long frustrated.

I wrote a little while back about the little-discussed French demographic advantage within Europe; its relatively high fertility rate means that it should eventually overtake Germany and become the largest continental European economy.

Once again the French had the advantage of numbers and position, only to suffer a disastrous defeat.

In the 1990's, the French government took advantage of this loophole by bailing out Air France and the part-state-owned bank, Crédit Lyonnais, on several occasions.

After attaining the highest military position as constable of France in 1370, he brilliantly used the strategy of avoiding set battles with the English until the French had sufficient advantage to defeat them soundly.

The No7 Peugeot of Nicolas Minassian, Marc Gene and Jacques Villeneuve had the pace (around four seconds a lap) over the No2 Audi of Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello, but the Audi was the staying out longer between stops and spending less time stationary when it did pit – minimising the French marque's advantage.

The Australian, however, was to blame for letting Escare add to the French side's advantage after the break, spilling a Pryce kick.

The French forward took advantage of slack defending to slot past Tono and then fired in from a Mario Mandzukic header to double the champions' lead.

Only half of those entitled to the French RSA take advantage of the scheme in what some call the "non-take up" of social benefits.

His placement of artillery at the Battle of Borodino gave the French a tactical advantage in fire on the Russian lines.