After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

* 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.

After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.

* 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

After a three-year siege, Thasos was recaptured and forced back into the League.

After a protracted siege, during which the Mongol army under Jani Beg was suffering the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants.

After an 18 month siege Jerusalem was captured in 587 BC, thousands of Jews were deported to Babylon and Solomon's Temple was razed to the ground.

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set atop his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops.

After a brief siege, with no Carthaginian help in sight, Syracuse made peace with the Romans.

* 1344 March – After a two-year siege, Algeciras was taken over by the Castilian forces.

After a five-month siege with several unsuccessful and costly attempts, Spanish troops gave up and retired.

After the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland ( notably at the siege of Drogheda in 1649 ), Irish prisoners were transferred to Montserrat.

* 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

After the Jewish garrison of Yodfat fell under siege, the Romans invaded, killing thousands ; the survivors committed suicide.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

* 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

* 1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.

* 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.

* 1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops ( under Oliver Cromwell ) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2, 000 Irish Confederate troops and 1, 500 civilians.

After the siege was raised, Innocent again spared no efforts to induce the Christian princes to lend a helping hand for the expulsion of the Turks from Hungary.

After a six months ' siege, Constantinople was taken by Theodosios ; Anastasios, who had fled to Nicaea, was compelled to submit to the new emperor in 716 and retired to a monastery in Thessalonica.

After being settled by people from Ireland in the first millennium, the Isle of Man was converted to Christianity and then suffered raids by Vikings from Norway.

After the season Steckel was fired, and on December 18, 1984, Bud Grant was rehired as the head coach of the Vikings.

After struggling to a disappointing 2 – 5 start to the 2005 season, Vikings lost quarterback Daunte Culpepper to a season-ending knee injury.

After a week four bye-week, the Vikings received star wide receiver Randy Moss in a trade with the New England Patriots.

After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

After viewing the damage, Vikings management and the NFL decided to move the game to Monday and play it at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.

After several failed attempts at developing an official team-owned mascot, the Vikings finally introduced Viktor the Viking during the 2007 Vikings ' season.

After losing in the first round to the Vikings in 1997, the Giants needed to close out the season with four wins to finish 8 – 8 in 1998.

After his death a monastery ( Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man ) was established here which was of great importance until the town was raided by the Vikings in 981 ( the Vikings laid waste " Petroces stow " ( probably Padstow ) according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

After losing two straight games in November ( one to the rival Dallas Cowboys ), they finished off the regular season winning their remaining five games, including dominating wins over playoff teams Denver Broncos, 41 – 6, and Minnesota Vikings, 38 – 10.

After 840, the Vikings had several bases in strategic locations dispersed throughout Ireland.

After 851, Vikings began to stay in the lower Seine valley for the winter.

After 842, when the Vikings set up a permanent base at the mouth of the Loire River, they could strike as far as northern Spain.

After the battle Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury and the aldermen of the south-western provinces advised King Aethelred to buy off the Vikings rather than continue the armed struggle.

After escaping from Tomator in The Lost Vikings, Eric, Olaf, and Baleog have lived joyous and fruitful Vikings lives.

After Athelstan's defeat of the Vikings at York in 937, his campaigns against the Welsh kings ( who were forced to submit to him at Hereford in 937 ), and his subsequent successful invasion of Alba in 934, the power of Wessex was clearly on the ascent and forming a considerable threat to neighboring kingdoms.

After another year as Cunningham's backup, he moved to the Minnesota Vikings in 1993 as their starter and led them to the playoffs.

After the XFL Avery returned to the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings in 2003.

After the Angles departed from Anglia, by the 8th century the region was occupied by Danish Vikings.

After two seasons in which the Vikings failed to finish above. 500, he stepped down again.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Page was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings, for whom he played from 1967 until 1978.