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After and winter
After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.
After spending the winter organizing a cavalry force ( hippeis ), he made a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring of 395 BC.
After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1772, his son Timur Shah became the next ruler of the Durrani dynasty who decided to make Kabul the new capital of the empire, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.
After Germany's failure to destroy the Soviets before the winter of 1941, the strategic failure above the German tactical superiority became apparent.
After crossing the Delaware River in the dead of winter, he defeated the British in two battles, retook New Jersey and restored momentum to the Patriot cause.
After a successful trading expedition over the winter of 1668 – 9, the Nonsuch returned to England.
After the construction of its palaces the city had functioned not only as an agricultural center and as a crossroad but as a winter resort for Jerusalem's aristocracy.
After the departure of the Hungarians, the remaining crusaders set about refortifying Caesarea and the Templar fortress of Château Pèlerin throughout the winter of 1217 and spring of 1218.
After defeats in battle, the desertion of his Armenian allies and his failure to capture Parthian strongholds convinced Antony to retreat, his army was further depleted by the hardships of its retreat through Armenia in the depths of winter, losing more than a quarter of its strength in the course of the campaign.
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 the postmonsoon comes the winter monsoon, a strong northeasterly flow marked by occasional, short rainfalls in the lowlands and plains and snowfalls in the high-altitude areas.
After a third winter trapped in the ice, Amundsen was able to navigate a passage into the Beaufort Sea after which he cleared into the Bering Strait, thus having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage.
After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.
After seven years of work, Adorno completed Negative Dialectics in 1966, after which, during the summer semester of 1967 and the winter semester of 1967-8, he offered regular philosophy seminars to discuss the book chapter by chapter.
After the uniquely severe U. S. winter of 1886-1887 wiped out his herd of cattle ( together with those of his competitors ) and most of his $ 80, 000 investment, Roosevelt returned to the East.
After 851, Vikings began to stay in the lower Seine valley for the winter.
After his term as tutor ended, Gibbs travelled to Europe with his sisters, spending the winter of 1866 – 67 in Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.
After a protracted siege ended on 8 September of the same year, which became known in history as the Great Siege, the Ottoman Empire conceded defeat as the approaching winter storms threatened to prevent them from leaving.
After they successfully hold the passes, they prepare for a violent winter, as the army of The Watcher remains behind their lines, and they plan to turn and hunt him down.
After he was killed by members of the rival Tanukh tribal confederation, Zenobia became the head of the ' Amlaqis, leading them in their nomadic lifestyle to summer and winter pastures.
After an unsuccessful attempt to cross Mount Caradhras in winter, they crossed under the mountains through the Mines of Moria, though only Gimli the Dwarf was enthusiastic about that route.
After the lease ran out, Tucker quit Ford and returned to the police force again, but in his first winter back he was banned from driving police vehicles by the force after using a blowtorch to cut a hole in the dashboard of a cruiser to allow engine heat to warm the cabin.
After the party had completely an eighty-mile trek to Ust-Kut, a town on the Lena where they could spend the winter, Bering travelled on to the town of Irkutsk both to get a sense of the conditions and to seek advice on how best to get their large party across the mountains separating Yakutsk ( their next stop ) to Okhotsk on the coast.
* After spending the winter in organizing a cavalry force, Agesilaus II, the King of Sparta, makes a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring.
After a supposed three-week trip to England that stretched to three months due to the War, they returned to France, where they spent the first winter of the war.

After and sojourn
After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.
After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.
After a brief sojourn in Germany, Bopp travelled to London where he made the acquaintance of Sir Charles Wilkins and H. T. Colebrooke.
After a three-year sojourn in Europe, Gibbs spent the rest of his career at Yale, where he was professor of mathematical physics.
After a sojourn in Switzerland, where she waited in vain for Ludwig to join her, she made one brief excursion to France and then removed to London in late 1848.
After a short trip to Italy with Gay-Lussac for the purpose of investigating the law of magnetic declination and a sojourn of two and a half years in his native city, he finally, in the spring of 1808, settled in Paris with the purpose of securing the scientific cooperation required for bringing his great work through the press.
After a sojourn in Stuttgart, probably working on his translations of Pindar, at the end of 1800 he found further employment as a tutor in Hauptwyl, Switzerland and then, in 1802, in Bordeaux, at the household of the Hamburg consul.
After leaving Coleman, Don Cherry eschewed the trend towards funk / fusion and continued to play sparse jazz, often in small groups and duets ( many with ex-Coleman drummer Ed Blackwell ) during a long sojourn in Scandinavia and other locations.
After a brief sojourn in France they were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s, with Paul working under Virgil Thomson as a music critic at the New York Herald Tribune.
After Gottschalk returned to the United States in 1853, he traveled extensively ; a sojourn in Cuba during 1854 was the beginning of a series of trips to Central and South America.
After the Federal Art Project started up, Noguchi again put forth designs, one of which was another earthwork chosen for the New York City airport entitled Relief Seen from the Sky ; following further rejection, Noguchi left for Hollywood, where he again worked as a portrait sculptor to earn money for a sojourn in Mexico.
After a brief and unsuccessful sojourn in Hollywood, which resulted in the films Zandy's Bride ( 1974 ), starring Gene Hackman, and Hurricane ( 1979 ), Troell made Flight of the Eagle ( Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd, 1982 ).
After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes ( who had the tribunician power, in essence the power of habeas corpus ).
After a brief sojourn in Vienna, Držić came back to his native city.
After a short sojourn to Kraków in Poland, he moved with his Croatian family to the nearby city of Dubrovnik where he attended elementary and secondary school.
After a brief sojourn on the 5-man board of the Iron Mountain Railroad, Morgan joined them in creating the Bay de Noquet and Marquette Railroad Company, connecting the entire Upper Peninsula by a single, ore-bearing line.
After graduating from the German School, Kang taught in a rural school in Zhucheng, Shandong in the early 1920s before leaving, possibly for a sojourn in Germany and France, and ultimately for Shanghai, where he arrived in 1924.
After a few year sojourn in Bologna, he returned to Rome to become one of the premier painters during the papacy of Paul V ( Borghese ).
After the failure of the Stuart cause in 1715, Leslie accompanied his patron into Italy, where he remained until 1721, in which year, having found his sojourn amongst Roman Catholics extremely unpleasant, he sought and obtained permission to return to his native country.
After a sojourn at the court of Ghassan, he returned to Hirah under Numan III.
After a brief sojourn in his father's grocery business, which he hated (" I knew from the time I was six I wanted to be a dramatist "), he served in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War.
After a brief sojourn in Sri Lanka, Greig's team arrived in Australia in March 1977 to prepare for a unique moment in the game's history.
After the establishment of the American colonies, an additional 250, 000 immigrants arrived either directly from Spain, the Canary Islands or, after a relatively short sojourn, from present-day central Mexico.
After a brief sojourn in Virginia, Ludlow returned to Europe, where he was appointed by a commission distributing seized and forfeited property in the aftermath of Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland.

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