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Cette guerre fut déclenchée au mois d'août 1807 par la Grande-Bretagne qui craignait que la flotte danoise tombât aux mains des forces françaises napoléoniennes après son refus de se rendre.
Britain initiated the war in August 1807, after the Danes refused to surrender their fleet, which the British feared would fall into the hands of Napoleonic France.
Nous prîmes alors toutes ses villes, et il n'y en eut pas une qui ne tombât en notre pouvoir : soixante villes, toute la contrée d'Argob, le royaume d'Og en Basan.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Ils n'ont pas voulu probablement qu'il tombât dans les mains d'Alexandre qui pourraient alors réclamer que Darius l'a accepté, Alexandre, comme son suzerain, de ce fait faisant à Alexandre la règle légale de l'empire persan.
They probably did not want him to fall in the hands of Alexander who could then claim that Darius accepted him, Alexander, as his overlord, thus making Alexander the legal ruler of the Persian Empire.
Il y avait lieu d’appréhender que le pourcentage représenté par celui-ci tombât en dessous de […] %, ce qui eût signifié que la LBBW aurait pu exiger de nouvelles négociations d’achat.
It appeared that Sachsen LB’s core capital ratios would fall below […] %, which gave LBBW the right to renegotiate the sale.
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