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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.
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* 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 and lasting
After King Abdullah II's accession to the throne in 1999, liberal economic policies were introduced that resulted in a boom lasting for a decade, continuing through 2009.
After Fuchs ' confession and a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, Lord Goddard sentenced him to fourteen years ' imprisonment, the maximum for espionage.
After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months.
After Whitefield's death in 1770, however, American Methodism entered a more lasting Wesleyan and Arminian phase of development.
After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.
After the Grundschule ( primary / elementary school lasting four to six years ), teachers recommend each pupil for one of three different types of secondary education.
After leaving Vienna, Adorno traveled through Italy, where he met with Kracauer, Benjamin, and the economist Alfred Sohn-Rethel, with whom he developed a lasting friendship, before returning to Frankfurt.
After the failed assault, Grant decided to settle for a siege lasting seven weeks.
After taking the month of April 1864 to assemble and ready the Union Army of the Potomac, Grant crossed the Rapidan River on May 4 and attacked Lee in the Wilderness, a hard-fought battle with many casualties, lasting three days.
** 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting six days and leaving 26 dead.
After New Zealand abolished its provinces in 1876, a system of counties similar to other countries ' systems was instituted, lasting until 1989.
After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on September 13, 1976, and five seasons were produced until March 15, 1981, lasting 120 episodes.
After a disputation on the absolute supremacy of the papacy, purgatory, penance, etc., lasting twenty-three days ( 4 July – 27 July ), the arbitrators declined to give a verdict.
After a war lasting several decades he inflicted a decisive defeat upon the Bulgarians in 1014 and completed the campaign four years later.
After a siege lasting 118 days, the Relief of Ladysmith was effected, the day after Cronje surrendered, but at a total cost of 7, 000 British casualties.
After a period of joblessness lasting five months, however, Bering ( keenly aware of his dependants ), decided to reapply to the Admiralty.
After the Council of Chalcedon, the Monophysite controversy ( together with institutional, political, and growing nationalistic factors ) led to a lasting schism between the Oriental Orthodox churches, on the one hand, and the Western and the Eastern Orthodox churches on the other.
After this, females will go on foraging trips lasting as long as three days, returning to nurse their pups for up to a day.
After a whirlwind romance lasting less than three weeks, they travelled to Manhattan and were married at New York City Hall.
After a confused fight lasting two hours, Parliamentarian cavalry under Oliver Cromwell routed the Royalist cavalry from the field and annihilated the remaining Royalist infantry.
After his trial, the Shipman Inquiry chaired by Dame Janet Smith, begun on 1 September 2000 and lasting almost two years, investigated all deaths certified by Shipman.
After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.
After his death, Custer achieved the lasting fame that he had sought on the battlefield.
After their years of hard work, and umpteen chicken barbecues to raise funds, residents realized they needed a more lasting organization to collect money and oversee the lake.
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