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After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
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After fierce fighting, the Carthaginians were defeated and the city fell.
After this fierce combat, with more than 50 % losses in some of the attacking units, the Whites re-organized their troops and their plans, and resumed the attack in the early hours of 3 April.
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After several days of fierce fighting, the Portuguese forces retreated without achieving most of their goals.
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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 India discovered the infiltration, a fierce Indian offensive nearly led to a full-scale war.
After a fierce campaign ( see also Second Dacian War ), the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed.
After fierce fighting, a French flag flies above it and Napoleon asks Soult to write a letter to Paris that the battle and the war have been won.
** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
After fierce resistance, Vitiges routs in panic, and many are slain or drowned in the river.
After the Byzantines were betrayed by Admiral Euphemius, who fled to Tunisia and begged the Aghlabid leader Ziyadat Allah to help him, there was a Muslim conquest of Sicily in 831, which took until 904 against fierce resistance.
After fierce fighting, Budapest was taken by the Soviets.
After Frederick's death, the struggle against Thomas II of Savoy became fierce: the Astigiani defeated him on February 23, 1255, at the Battle of Montebruno, but Thomas ( who had been taken prisoner ) replied ordering all traders from Asti to be arrested in Savoy and France.
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After fierce fighting, the city was taken by the Germans in November 1941.
After some fierce fighting, in which the Earl of Gloucester was knocked off his horse, the knights of the vanguard were forced to retreat to the Tor Wood.
After a fierce resistance, Marius committs suicide.
After the war, there was fierce debate within the cash-strapped British armed forces as to the value of airborne forces.
After a fierce battle in the dark the attackers captured General Laza Petrović, head of the Palace Guard, and forced him to reveal the hiding place of King Alexander Obrenović and his wife Queen Draga.
After fierce fighting in the Battle of Panormus, the Carthaginians, led by Hasdrubal, are defeated and the city falls.
After fierce debate among the colonies, it was finally agreed to declare their independence from Britain, and in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, formally and officially breaking all ties with the former mother country.

After and indecisive
After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.
After an indecisive battle, Amalric retreated to Cairo and Shirkuh marched north to capture Alexandria ; Amalric followed and besieged Shirkuh there, aided by a fleet from Jerusalem.
After an indecisive eighth ballot, the convention unanimously nominated Polk.
After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the Treaty of Pereiaslav is signed, ending the uprising.
After one or two indecisive campaigns, all parties were ready to accept the mediation of Pope Gregory XI.
After an indecisive dogfight between Porco and Curtis, which soon dissolves into a bare fist boxing match, Gina appears to stop the fight and to warn the crowd that the Italian air force has been alerted and are on their way.
After several hours of costly but indecisive skirmishing, the British withdrew.
After two years of indecisive results for both sides, Paullus was elected consul again in 168 BC ( with Gaius Licinius Crassus as colleague ).
Bury: “ After nine months, occupied with frontier raids and fruitless negotiations, the Castilian and Portuguese armies met at Toro … and fought an indecisive battle, for while Afonso was beaten and fled, his son john destroyed the forces opposed to him.
After three years of indecisive warfare Olynthus consented to dissolve the confederacy ( 379 ).
After Brandt was re-elected in 1972, the relations between the two men cooled down during the 1973 oil crisis, when Wehner increasingly viewed the chancellor's policies as indecisive.
After some more indecisive fighting, Sverre sailed north to Trondheim, where he spent the winter.
After two indecisive victories at Paraitacene ( 317 BC ) and Gabiene ( 316 BC ), Eumenes was betrayed to Antigonus by officers under his command.
After a day of indecisive fighting, the Americans found themselves surrounded.
After a day of indecisive fighting, the Americans found themselves surrounded and attempted to retreat.
After some indecisive exchanges of artillery fire at the mouth of the river and a minor success against a British outpost at Cook's Mill on 19 October, Izard withdrew.
After a series of indecisive skirmishes his invasion was cut short due to the death of Vaytautas, which forced Olugh to concentrate his forces on Lithuania, where he supported Sigismund I Kestutian against Svitrigaila in the fight for the Lithuanian throne.
After some indecisive skirmishes with British outposts along the Canard River, Hull decided he could not attack the British fort without artillery, which could not be brought forward because the carriages had decayed and needed repair, and he fell back.
After an indecisive air battle, Red Squadron ( with Cheriss's help ) are able to reclaim their X-wings and neutralize Phennir and his TIE interceptors ; the tide thus turned, Cartann is defeated and joins the Adumari Union.
After two years of ruinous but indecisive military campaigning, Parliament created the New Model Army, the first professional standing army in British history.
After ten murders, misgivings begin to surface within the group as a couple of them grow indecisive regarding the justification of their actions.
After the indecisive Battle of Abtao in February 1866, Méndez Núñez decided to take punitive action against South American ports, his first target being the undefended Chilean port of Valparaíso.

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