Sentence examples for french supply from inspiring English sources

The French supply electricity to over 5m British customers, as well as football players and managers to such clubs as Arsenal (the bilateral summit is even being held in Arsenal's Emirates football stadium).

In 1558 Ribaut was commander of a French supply vessel at the successful capture of Calais from the English, and the following year he went to Scotland to supervise French interests in that nation.

Instead of attempting to capture the town, he seized high ground overlooking the French supply lines.

In November 1672, he took his army to Maastricht to threaten the French supply lines.

The extended French supply lines were vulnerable to assault by Russian forces.

Cossacks, light cavalry, guerrilla forces, and even French deserters attacked French supply columns and seriously depleted Napoleon's forces.

This early period was also the occasion of the arrival of the first African slaves, transported aboard a French supply ship from Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean.

During James's campaign, Mary supported his cause throughout the British Isles: she sent three French supply ships to Bantry Bay and £2,000 to Jacobite rebels in Dundee.

During this operation a number of French supply ships took advantage of the absence of the British squadron to enter Valletta.

By January 1920, French supply convoys and communication lines were regularly coming under attack by the partisans and those Armenians who had been repatriated were being harassed and pressured to leave their homes once more.

Sentries did detect boats moving along the river that morning, but they were expecting a French supply convoy to pass that night a plan that had been changed without Vergor being notified.