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By April 1797 the French controlled the entire Po valley, including Bologna and the northern reaches of the Republic of Venice, which the pope had ceded to them in the Peace of Tolentino (February 19 , 1797.

By April 1797 the French controlled the entire Po valley, including Bologna and the northern reaches of the Republic of Venice, which the pope had ceded to them in the Peace of Tolentino (Feb. 19, 1797).

Some say that when the French controlled the slave trade and yellow fever and famine struck their settlements, the slaves fled inland and were given refuge by Native Americans.

With these capitulations, the French controlled the Rhine crossings at Düsseldorf and at the junction of the Rhine and the Main rivers.

On the night of the 16th, the French controlled the Kolmberg that Klenau had fought over all day, and a Hessian soldier wrote: "it was the worst bivouac we had experienced on this campaign.

The French controlled what they referred to as Saint-Domingue from 1697 until 1804, when a successful slave revolt made Haiti the second country in the Western hemisphere to win independence.

In 1806, in an attempt to use French control of continental ports to blockade Britain indirectly, Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree, by which ships passing to French-controlled ports after calling at British ports were liable to seizure.

And defense concerns over foreign ownership already had been resolved in 1979 when French-controlled Schlumberger bought Fairchild and established a New York-based subsidiary to operate it.

Dr. Karadzic, too, has been hiding in the French-controlled sector of Bosnia.

Though the company is nominally French-controlled, he said, the Iranian manufacturers can override Renault's decisions.

Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport.