After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

After the slaves were freed, the plantation owners were desperate for new sources of labour.

After nearly having their position overrun, the men in the southern LZs were in a desperate position, pinned down all day and short of ammunition.

After the Battle of Menin Road the German defensive system was changed, beginning an increasingly desperate search for expedients, to counter the inexorable British advance.

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone.

After receiving considerable criticism in London following Yalta regarding the atrocities committed in Poland by Soviet troops, Churchill wrote Roosevelt a desperate letter referencing the wholesale deportations and liquidations of opposition Poles by the Soviets.

After the calf had satisfied its thirst, they turned back to the barn, but at the doorway the calf stubbornly braced its feet, and despite my father's desperate pulling on the halter, he could not budge the animal.

He was awakened by the alarm, and was instantly at his post .... After three desperate onsets, the besiegers retired behind the ditch.

After a major defeat in the Battle of Neerwinden in March 1793, he made a desperate move to save himself from his radical enemies.

After missing selection for UEFA Euro 2004, in the second group stage match of the 2006 World Cup against Poland Neuville, who had replaced Lukas Podolski, buried a desperate injury-time cross from fellow substitute David Odonkor, beating goalkeeper Artur Boruc on the way to a 1 – 0 victory.

After one final, desperate visit to Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year.

After a diplomatic session with the mafia leader Don Tommasso, which evolved into a desperate fight to survive inside Tommasso's villa, Hamilton's companion and friend Joar Lundwall was gunned down and killed on an open street in Palermo.

After only one win in 10 games, Sánchez too was fired, with former Spain national football team manager Javier Clemente replacing him, in a desperate move to avoid relegation with only eight games remaining.

After the Battle of the Somme, Canada was in desperate need to replenish its supply of soldiers ; however, there were very few volunteers to replace them.

After studying Ramus's work, Ong concluded that the results of his " methodizing " of the arts " are the amateurish works of a desperate man who is not a thinker but merely an erudite pedagogue ".

After a year of desperate fighting and splendid heroism on the part of the defenders he took the city of Carthage, taking about 50, 000 survivors ( about one-tenth of the city's population ) prisoner, and, complying with the mandate of the Senate, ordered the city razed to the ground and plowed over after being evacuated and set on fire, ending the Third Punic War.

After this, Khrushchev made many desperate attempts to reconstitute the Sino-Soviet alliance, but Mao considered it useless and denied any proposal.

After desperate fighting, they punched their way through the 3000 Uesugi warriors defending the ford ( under the command of Uesugi general, Amakazu Kagemochi ), and pressed on to aid Takeda's main force.

After joining the Cossacks, Rakoczi's army decided not to attack Lwów, but set off towards Kraków, in which the situation of Swedish garrison commanded by Paul Wirtz was desperate.

After a few days of desperate fighting, however, Grey was wounded and his soldiers refused to fight.

After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Stalin was desperate for more men to fight for the nation, offering prisoners freedom if they joined the army.

After three months, Van Dyke departed the show, and CBS, in a desperate attempt to save the series, moved The Carol Burnett Show from Saturday nights at 10: 00 P. M to Sunday nights at 10: 00 pm beginning in December, 1977.

After interviewing every robot separately and going down several blind alleys, Dr. Calvin starts growing desperate feeling that the robot may be gaining a superiority complex that might allow it to directly hurt a human.

After Octavian's proposals for a conference with Antony had been scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the final struggle next year.

He described the turn of events in his diary, " After twenty years of struggle and misery forces of good finally come to my aid in Germany — and a bright door opens up for me.

After a brief struggle within the Soga clan in which one of Prince Yamashiro's main supporters was killed, Prince Tamura was chosen and he acceded to the throne as Emperor Jomei in 629.

After his elder brother Emperor Ankō was murdered, he won the struggle against his other brothers and became the new emperor.

After the Civil War, Douglass remained active in the United States ' struggle to reach its potential as a " land of the free ".

After a hard struggle from the combined efforts of Hamilcar Barca, Hanno the Great and others, the Punic forces were finally able to annihilate the mercenaries and the insurgents.

After prolonged years of struggle, in 1834 the Evangelicals gained control of the General Assembly and passed the Veto Act, which allowed congregations to reject unwanted " intrusive " presentations to livings by patrons.

After the fall of Bose from the mainstream of Indian politics ( due to his support of violence in driving the British out of India ), the power struggle between the socialists and conservatives balanced out.

After the Pomeranian struggle he also had to deal with the inheritance conflict upon the 1476 death of the Piast duke Henry XI of Głogów, husband of his half-sister Barbara.

After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power ( 1927 ), expelled from the Communist Party, and finally deported from the Soviet Union ( 1929 ).

After a protracted struggle Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1810.

After a struggle for power between Bolesław I and Oda with her minor sons ( Bolesław's half-brothers ), the eldest son of Mieszko I took control over all of his father's state and expelled his stepmother and her sons from Poland.

After the coup, Perón fled to Asunción, where his meddling in Paraguayan politics complicated Méndez Fleitas ' position further and intensified the political struggle going on behind the scenes.

After a long struggle, the party of Boris Godunov prevailed over the Romanovs, and the former was elected new Tsar in 1599.

After eight years of political struggle, the plebeian social class convinced the patricians to send a delegation to Athens, to copy the Laws of Solon ; they also dispatched delegations to other Greek cities for like reason.

After a brief struggle for control over filling these vacancies, General Manager AJ Smith fired Schottenheimer, replacing him with Norv Turner, who had been a head coach with two other NFL teams and had previously served the Chargers as offensive coordinator.

After the death of Methodius himself in 885, Clement headed the struggle against the German clergy in Great Moravia along with Gorazd.

After a struggle over the company, which saw the Hinckley name dropped, Tandy made another change in 1963, when it bought the ailing RadioShack.

After nearly four more years of struggle Portuguese Brazil annexed the Banda Oriental as a province under the name of " Cisplatina ".

After two years of struggle, a peace agreement was signed in 1872 that gave the Blancos a share in the emoluments and functions of government, through control of four of the departments of Uruguay.

After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

* August 24 – After an intense power struggle, Sultan Abd al-Aziz IV of Morocco is deposed, and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz.

After much campaigning in Bavaria and across the Danube valley, the war ended favorably for the French after the bloody struggle at Wagram in early July, resulting in the Treaty of Schönbrunn.

After a severe struggle, the Greeks are routed ; thousands are killed in flight to their ships.

After some years of struggle known as the Interregnum, the Duchies of Austria and Styria fell to Otakar II of Bohemia, and subsequently to Rudolph I of Habsburg, whose descendants were to rule Austria until 1918.