After earlier failing to hold or retake Franquenée and Taviers, Guiscard ’ s right flank had become dangerously exposed and a fatal gap had opened on the right of their line.

After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans.

After failing to sign C. J.

After failing his medical exam in 1864, he began painting full-time.

After failing to storm some towns on the coasts of the western Black Sea and the Danube ( Tomi, Marcianopolis ), the invaders attacked Byzantium and Chrysopolis.

After failing to find a unique arrangement of polygons that fit known astronomical observations ( even with extra planets added to the system ), Kepler began experimenting with 3-dimensional polyhedra.

After Major became prime minister, it was misreported that he had failed to get a job as a bus conductor because of failing a maths test, when in fact he passed all of the tests, but had been passed over for the job to another candidate owing to his height.

After failing the officer's qualification test, Audubon ended his incipient naval career.

After failing to keep their majority in the general election 36 days after the wall went up, the CDU / CSU again needed to include the FDP in a coalition government.

After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999.

After failing to win the favour of the next generation of Persian royalty, and incurring the disapproval of the Zoroastrian clergy, Mani is reported to have died in prison awaiting execution by the Persian Emperor Bahram I.

After failing to gain a job, Foster was led to John Beardstow, a local architect in Manchester.

After deliberating for four months, the College of Cardinals selected Corsini, 78 years old and with failing eyesight, who had held all the important offices of the Roman Curia.

After failing to attract more settlers to Trinidad and Tobago, Sedeño was forced to withdraw in 1534.

After failing to find a distributor for the short and its follow-up, The Gallopin ' Gaucho, Disney created a Mickey cartoon with sound called Steamboat Willie.

After initially failing to penetrate the French defences at the Montmorency Falls, Wolfe later led his men to a victory to the west of the city allowing the British forces to capture Quebec.

After receiving a failing grade in school, he uses his IMSAI 8080 microcomputer to hack into the district's computer system.

* After failing to decisively defeat the Romans, Pyrrhus of Epirus withdraws from Italy.

After failing Tara's challenge to go for one week without performing magic, Tara leaves Willow, and for two episodes Willow descends into addiction that almost kills Dawn.

After failing to respond to numerous summons and subpoenas, the commission recommend a five-year suspension on March 18, 1968.

After failing to revive Washington in his office, paramedics rushed him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

After several years of failing to make a profit, more than a year of negotiations over revised financing arrangements with the government, and grave concern over its future viability, National Express Group announced on 16 December 2002, its decision to walk away from all of their Victorian contracts and hand control back to the state government, with funding for its operations to stop on 23 December 2002.

After its success, Gaul was in a state of inactivity and empire was failing in the east.

After one more film role as an aging doctor in The Last Angry Man ( 1959 ), for which he was again nominated for an Oscar, his failing eyesight and other health problems forced him to retire from acting.

After failing to storm some towns on the coasts of the western Black Sea and the Danube ( Tomi, Marcianopolis ), the invaders attacked Byzantium and Chrysopolis.

After the capture of Troy, Cassandra, doomed prophetess and daughter of Priam, fell to Agamemnon's lot in the distribution of the prizes of war.

After the death of his condottiero Jacopo Caldora, however, René's fortune started to wane: Alfonso could easily capture Aversa, Salerno, Benevento, Manfredonia and Bitonto.

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 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.

After departing from Madras, Cole informed Foote and Kenah of Cole's plan to capture the Bandas ; Foote and Kenah agreed.

After a year in Paris, he therefore began to leave the city and paint scenes in the countryside to capture the daily reality of village life.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

After the capture of Constantinople ( also called the Eastern Roman Empire ) in 1453, the Ottoman sultan's also styled themselves Kaysar-i Rum ( Emperor of the Romans ) as they asserted themselves to be the heirs to the Roman empire by right of conquest.

After Hattusa was made capital, the area encompassed by the bend of the Halys River ( Hittite Marassantiya, ) was considered the core of the Empire, and some Hittite laws make a distinction between " this side of the river " and " that side of the river ", for example, the reward for the capture of an eloped slave after he managed to flee beyond the Halys is higher than that for a slave caught before he could reach the river.

After Al-Mukhtar's capture 15 September 1931 and his execution in Benghazi, the resistance petered out.

After the capture of Berlin, Soviet troops reportedly raped from tens of thousands to two million women, and 50, 000 during and after the occupation of Budapest.

After the development of his electron capture detector, in the late 1960s, Lovelock was the first to detect the widespread presence of CFCs in the atmosphere.

After the Mongol capture of the Kara-Khitan, Kazakhstan fell under the control of a succession of rulers of the Mongolian Golden Horde, the western branch of the Mongol Empire.

After his failure to capture the five members and fearing for his family's lives, Charles left London for Oxford.

After his capture, Field Marshal Conrad, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army, made a point of meeting him in person.

After the city's capture in April 1920, Beria was saved from execution only because there was no time to arrange it and Sergei Kirov saved him.

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 brief search, the officers located the animal in an alleyway, but were unable to capture it.

After a brief occupation by the Franks after the Fourth Crusade and the capture of Constantinople in 1204, the city fell into the hands of the Serbs.

After the 21 April 2001 capture of Brazilian drug lord Luiz Fernando da Costa ( aka Fernandinho Beira-Mar ) in Colombia, Colombian and Brazilian authorities accused him of cooperating with FARC-EP through the exchange of weapons for cocaine.

After Tipu's eventual defeat in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and the capture of the Mysore iron rockets, they were influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.

* 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

After the events of the Ultimatum Wave, a new model of Sentinel ( Nimrod Sentinels ) was deployed to hunt and capture, or kill, mutants that refused to turn themselves in.

After Marathon, probably in 489, Miltiades, the hero of the battle, was seriously wounded in an abortive attempt to capture Paros.

After Grant and the Army of the Potomac had successfully crossed the James River undetected by Lee and rescued Maj. Gen. Butler from the Bermuda Hundred, Grant advanced the Union army southward to capture Petersburg.