abortive campaign

The fort was used as a base against the Chickasaw in the abortive Campaign of 1739.

In 1372, he forced himself to attempt one final, abortive campaign in the hope of saving his father's French possessions.

Within months of the abortive campaign, embassies were sent from Norway to discuss terms of peace.

At its height in Mr. Perot's abortive campaign, the telephone bank had 100 lines.

Two years later, however, with negotiations still incomplete, Edward embarked on his abortive campaign with the results described above.

Thus the pair's earlier "reign" during the abortive campaign of 116 proved Sanatruces' sole taste of kingship.

Again he escaped uninjured, and then he joined Middleton in the abortive campaign in the north in 1654.

In early 2006 he launched an abortive campaign for the senate seat vacated by Brown, but dropped out at the urging of local Democratic Party leaders, who backed another candidate.

"They're just desperate for movement," Don Sipple, a Republican media consultant who worked on Governor Wilson's abortive campaign, said of Mr. Dole's opponents.

Napoleon Bonaparte slept in the Haute Ville at the Hotel Desandrouins, also known as the Imperial Palace, while he planned his abortive campaign to invade England.

(Lloyd Free was drawn back into politics decades later when he conducted surveys for Mr. Rockefeller's successful race for Governor of New York and his abortive campaign for President.)

The Scottish war added a dangerous dimension to the internal politics of Edward's reign, impoverishing crown, clergy and laity, embarrassing in turn both king and barons by humiliating defeats or abortive campaigns.

In spring 1342, Angelos followed Kantakouzenos in his abortive campaign to Thessalonica and his subsequent flight to Serbia and the court of its ruler Stephen Dushan (r. 1331-1346).

He speaks as an eye-witness of the king's doings at Messina, in Cyprus, at the siege of Acre, and in the abortive campaign which followed the capture of that city.

An Abortive Campaign In 1984, Mr. Cruz catapulted to world attention when he was chosen by opposition groups to face Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra in a presidential election.

Later he mounted an abortive campaign to resettle ethnic Serbian war refugees in the region, and he has put Serbs in charge of all Government offices, state factories and institutions in Kosovo.

He was later president of the youth wing of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, and aligned himself with Dennis Timbrell during the latter's abortive campaign for the PC leadership in 1989-90.

The MPAA's abortive campaign against individual file-swappers ended years ago, while the RIAA's more widely publicized (and criticized) years-long campaign against P2P swappers ended over a year ago.

The location on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff would put Fort Prudhomme at or near the site of the later French Fort Assumption which was used as a base against the Chickasaw in the abortive Campaign of 1739.

French interests in China were upheld in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion; an abortive campaign against Korea was launched in 1866 while a military mission to Japan failed to prevent the restoration of Imperial rule.

The company's chairman and biggest shareholder is Jerry Finkelstein, 78, a politically influential publisher whose son, Andrew J. Stein, was a Democratic officeholder in New York for years and was City Council President until an abortive campaign for mayor last year.

In spring 618, during an abortive campaign where Li Yuan sent his sons Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin with an army to the eastern capital Luoyang to try to get Sui officials there to submit, Xiao served on Li Shimin's staff.

Although the Rus' had predominantly peaceful trading relations with the Byzantines, the rulers of Kiev launched the relatively successful naval expedition of 907 and the abortive campaign of 941 against Constantinople, as well as the large-scale invasion of the Balkans by Sviatoslav I in 968-971.

If the announcement is borne out by subsequent developments, however, a binding autonomy agreement would represent the single biggest political gain for Iraqi Kurds in decades of abortive campaigns for recognition as a separate political entity within Iraq - a status denied Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran, where they also form restive minorities.