[The Franco-Prussian war commenced on 19 July 1870].
Britain's diplomatic relations with Syria were duly restored in November 1990 and the Gulf war commenced in 1991.
When the First World War commenced, in 1914, he volunteered for the German Army, and acquitted himself well as a soldier.
With a rival also interested, the company needs to quickly figure out the right price and do a deal before a bidding war commences.
Dr Johnson, seeking to prevent an earlier Falklands conflict, wrote: "It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced.
But as the war commenced, this hope receded, and the contacts and connections Mackintosh had in Europe were, by necessity, severed.
The source of said lava, the La Brea Tar Pits (one of LA's more dubious tourist attractions: a primordial swamp that contains dinosaur bones and smells of eggy farts), also opens and closes Steve De Jarnatt's pocket-apocalypse cult thriller Miracle Mile, set on the same stretch of Wilshire Boulevard on the night nuclear war commences.
To prevent the war commencing among them, he remonstrates [in the following language]; "that they ought to follow the precedent set by all Italy, rather than submit to the will of any one man". He made use of such arguments as he thought would tend to bring them to reason.
The film's next surprise is that even when the Civil War commences, the tone remains as fast and frivolous as ever.
We are told that when Napoleon III left for the front in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War commenced, he left Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte in effect Commandant of the Tuileries.
