After battling Afghan forces in the spring of 1885, the Russians seized the oasis.

After battling Arcade, who captured Rictor ( who then rejoins ), the team is joined by the real Longshot and Darwin and meets one of Jamie's duplicates, who calls himself Cortex.

After battling several Reborn together, they part ways.

After battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Slaughter died at age 86 in 2002 days before a scheduled autograph appearance in St. Louis Missouri on August 18, 2002.

After the 1996 season, Olerud was battling veteran Joe Carter and up-and-comer Carlos Delgado for a spot at either first base or designated hitter.

After Bruce Wayne's apparent death during Final Crisis, Todd attempted to usurp the Mantle of the Bat by battling Tim Drake and Dick Grayson during Battle for the Cowl as a brutal and murderous version of Batman.

At the end of every third level, Mario has to fight a boss by either battling it or getting around it to reach a point behind them that will end the battle, similar to fighting Bowser in the original Super Mario Bros. After the game is completed, the game returns to the title screen, and the player is given the option to play in " Hard Mode.

After battling Optimus Prime, he was deactivated when Snake Eyes opened the Matrix, deactivating all the Transformers.

After battling moderate drug addiction, he abandoned his Joycean / Western vision quest and joined his old friend's band, the Grateful Dead, on the first weekend in September 1967, at the small Rio Nido, California gigs.

After battling managerial control over her career the previous year, Twisted Angel became the first album released by Rimes that was not produced by her father.

After battling Cannonball, Death-Gambit was stabbed by Magik and Pixie with their magical swords enabling Gambit to reassert control over his form once more.

After ten years working in marketing – and battling alcoholism – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph.

After battling through the levels of the mine, the hunters defeat " Vol Opt ", a sentient Artificial Intelligence that corrupted and took over the machines in the mines.

After retiring from active duty, Brown began publishing a “ circular ” few-page-magazine with information on mercenary employment in Oman, where the Sultan Qaboos had recently deposed his father, and was battling a communist insurgency.

After battling AIDS, Arenas committed suicide by taking an overdose of drugs and alcohol on December 7, 1990, in New York.

After battling for several minutes, it becomes clear that the two are too evenly matched for further fighting to have much purpose.

After recuperating from his injuries, Magneto was asked to aid the X-Men in battling the returned Beyonder.

After battling alongside the Associated Newspapers ' version with the same name, it changed its name to Morning News.

After briefly battling Juggernaut, he is brought down by Ghost, who uses the nanites in King Hyperion's spine to dose him with Argonite.

After battling a DNAlien named the Gene-gnome, Krypto was never seen again, his last appearance in Superboy # 74.

After a while, however, the nWo began to fight within its ranks, with Hogan and Nash battling for control.

After recovering, Thornton enjoyed a productive second half, battling Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby for a second consecutive scoring title late in the year, eventually finishing 6 points behind Crosby with 114.

After battling through obvious discomfort, Ponting eventually retired hurt on 23 from 25 balls — the only time he had taken such action in his international career.

After battling breast cancer for a number of years, she developed heart disease and died on March 31, 1998 from complications following open heart surgery.

After finishing Vernon, FL, Morris tried unsuccessfully to get funding for a variety of projects.

After searching unsuccessfully at other sites he met Frank Calvert who told him that he had already found Troy on land owned by his family, the site known as Hissarlik.

After Hugh's store failed, the family moved to Hay Bay, west of Kingston, where Hugh unsuccessfully ran another shop.

After DuPont lost out to Roche on that sale, the company unsuccessfully disputed Mullis's patent on the alleged grounds that PCR had been previously described in 1971.

After unsuccessfully attempting to turn the business into a software company selling an enterprise version of the search software, Davis concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal.

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

After trying unsuccessfully to attempt suicide, Heidi go on a shooting spree and kills all the characters of the movie except Sydney, Sebastian, Arthur, Seymour, Robert and Lucile.

After unsuccessfully pleading with Aeolus to help them again, they re-embarked and encountered the cannibalistic Laestrygonians.

After recruiting Deal, the band tried unsuccessfully to get her sister, Kelley Deal, to join as its drummer.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

After unsuccessfully attempting to force territorial and other concessions on the Finns, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939 during the Winter War, intending to establish a communist puppet government in Finland.

After Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy to suppress Maxentius, he is executed ( or forced to commit suicide ).

After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the younger Robert Dudley tried unsuccessfully to prove that his parents had married 30 years earlier in a secret ceremony.

After campaigning unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by John F. Kennedy to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election.

After Glele's death in 1889, his son Behanzin tried, unsuccessfully, to challenge the treaty.

After unsuccessfully searching for a vocalist for nearly six months, Mustaine decided to handle lead vocal duties himself, while also serving as the band's primary lyricist, main songwriter, and co-lead and rhythm guitarist.

After leaving Dalhousie, he unsuccessfully pursued first-year law studies at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Vancouver, British Columbia.

After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house, St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled and, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to the early 6th-century Rule of St Benedict, were taken into the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York.

After losing her to her record producer, he unsuccessfully attempts to rekindle the flame with a marriage proposal.

After unsuccessfully trying to leave, using a dogsled, Silook has Taft undergo a vision quest in which he sees the truth.

After the appearance of his first book, he and Miriam traveled to the Southwest, moving on to Hollywood in 1938 where he tried, unsuccessfully, writing film scripts and worked for the WPA.

After resigning as president of the Fenian Brotherhood, John O ' Neill unsuccessfully attempted an unsanctioned raid in 1871, joining the forces of his remaining Fenian supporters with exiled members of the Red River Rebellion.

After trying unsuccessfully to manufacture candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful.

After unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence ( by reciting the lyrics of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " and insisting that he did no more than " cross an imaginary line with a bunch of plants "), George skips bail to take care of Barbara, who is suffering from, and eventually succumbs to, cancer.

After unsuccessfully trying two names, the township was named in honor of Senator William Windom of Winona.