After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

After being widowed in 1327, Alfonso married in February 1329 Eleanor of Castile ( 1308 – 1359 ), who was betrothed to his brother James, who had refused to consummate the marriage.

After a successful campaign Manuel I and Andronikos returned together to Constantinople ( 1168 ); but a year later, Andronikos refused to take the oath of allegiance to the future king Béla III of Hungary, whom Manuel desired to become his successor.

After a recent increase in profits by 60 %, the company refused to raise worker's pay by more than 30 %.

After Charlemagne's columns arrived at the gates of Zaragoza, Sulayman got cold feet and refused to let the Franks into the city.

After being refused a shelter by other Protestant cities, he directed his steps towards Poland, at that time the most tolerant state in Europe.

After the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke with his publisher there.

After the release of Shoulder Arms he requested more money from the company, which was refused.

After she refused to pay the ransom, they started to threaten Chaplin's youngest children with violence.

After six weeks of negotiations, Molotov refused the demands and the talks were adjourned.

After the proper facilities had been built and the personnel hired to make such a change, the U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an injunction and refused to allow Creekstone to buy the kits necessary to test.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

After the four phones AT & T Wireless had offered to the public ( two from Panasonic, one from Mitsubishi and the Ericsson R289LX ), AT & T Wireless eventually refused to activate the devices.

After being treated for strabismus in childhood, he refused to wear an eye patch.

After laying charges of sedition against the Jews, Haman gained the king's approval to write a decree for their destruction ; offering ten thousand silver talents to the king for approval of this plan, but the king refused to take them ().

After his demands were refused, he attempted to incite the gens de couleur to revolt.

After having been passed over for the All-Star team in 1935 and being left on the bench for the 1937 game, Greenberg refused to participate in the 1938 contest.

After Gresham's death in 1895, Landis refused an offer of an ambassadorship, and returned to Chicago to practice law and marry.

After being refused recognition as official representative of the Bolshevik regime, Radek alongside other delegates ( Adolph Joffe, Nikolai Bukharin, Christian Rakovsky and Ignatov ) to the German Congress of Soviets.

After four awkward meetings with his biological father, the man refused further contact.

After Mary's death, he sought to marry Elizabeth, but she refused him.

After a decision of the High Court in favour of the Nevis Island Administration, the Prime Minister gave newspaper interviews stating that he " refused to accept the decision of the High Court ".

After defeating King Porus in the fierce Battle of the Hydaspes ( modern day Jhelum ), his battle weary troops refused to advance further into India to engage the formidable army of Nanda Dynasty and its vanguard of trampling elephants, new monstorities to the invaders.

After Doolittle tensions between Deal and Francis came to a head ( for example, Francis threw a guitar at Deal during a concert in Stuttgart ), and Deal was almost fired from the band when she refused to play at a concert in Frankfurt.

After a lengthy engagement, he forced the large and well-armed merchant ship to surrender.

After the Dutch surrender, Captain Charles Foote ( of the Piedmontaise ) was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Banda Islands.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

After the French surrender, Louisbourg was thoroughly destroyed by British engineers to ensure it would never be reclaimed.

After the surrender, the Volunteers were hissed at, pelted with refuse, and denounced as " murderers " and " starvers of the people ".

After the surrender, despite the efforts of the senior officers to maintain order, the civil population of Gibraltar suffered at the hands of the troops.

After surrender in North Africa and losing the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 – 43, the Germans were on the defensive.

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

After Lee's surrender, there was a public meeting in Shreveport, Louisiana, at which many speakers supported continuation of the war.

After the briefly successful reconquest of Sweden by Christian II and the subsequent Stockholm bloodbath in 1520, the Swedes rose in yet another rebellion which ousted the Danish forces once again in 1521, though Stockholm did not surrender until the summer of 1523.

* 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.

After the surrender of two major Oeselian strongholds, Muhu and Valjala, the Oeselians formally accepted Christianity.

After the December 1933 Paraguayan victory at Campo Via, Bolivia seemed on the verge of surrender.

After Prime minister Nawaz went to the United States on emergency situation, an impression was attempted to create in the print media that Prime minister was at fault to surrender there.

' Timochenko ' announced the new commander in chief is ' Alfonso Cano ' After speculations in several national and international media about the ' softening up ' of the FARC and the announcement of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe that several FARC leaders were ready to surrender and free their captives, the secretariat of the FARC sent out a communiqué emphasizing the death of their founder would not change their approach towards the captives or the humanitarian agreement.

After this event, the FARC-EP released a statement saying that defeating the group would not bring peace to Colombia and called for a negotiated solution, not surrender, to the social and political conflict.

After the surrender, a dispute arose over the fate of French archaeological and scientific discoveries in Egypt, including a group of artefacts, biological specimens, notes, plans and drawings collected by the members of the commission.

After each step in the process the besiegers would ask the besieged to surrender.

After Japan's surrender to the Allied Powers, division at the 38th parallel marked the beginning of Soviet and U. S. trusteeship over the North and South, respectively.

After Napoleon's surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned, but when he escaped back into France in 1815, the British and their allies had to fight him again.

* January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.

* October 2 – After two days of siege, Major Buckrucker and his men surrender.

After the surrender of May 8, 1945, eliminated the threat of Nazi Germany, Patton was quick to assert the Soviet Union would cease to be an ally of the United States.

After Greece's surrender to the Axis, the island came under Italian control and occupation.

After making the standard request for surrender at 0800, which was refused, Klenau ordered a barrage from his mortars and howitzers.