The only tactical reverse he suffered was the loss of La Haye Sainte; every other French move against him failed.

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Other, less extreme examples, are the phantom time hypothesis, which asserts that the years AD 614–911 never took place; and the New Chronology of David Rohl, which claims that the accepted timelines for ancient Egyptian and Israelite history are wrong.By the end of November, there was a state-wide boycott of eggs planned by the women and public officials. Britain never had a say in anything the EU decided, and now it has a chance to “free” itself, so the story goes. And lest we forget,, when the Red Army arrived in Silesia in 1945 they broke into the Blücher mausoleum and scattered his remains.