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After resisting for 78 days the city fell on 2 September, and Turkish resistance collapsed throughout the region as far as Transylvania and Serbia.
After the General War, the Romulan Empire erupted in civil war, had their border stations destroyed by the Interstellar Concordium in the course of the ISC War of Pacification, and subsequently aided in resisting the Andromedan invasion.
After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.
After giving up determinism and absolute predestination and ascribing to man a certain moral freedom, he tried to ascertain the share of free will in conversion, naming three causes as concurring in the work of conversion, the Word, the Spirit, and the human will, not passive, but resisting its own weakness.
" After a successful siege of a resisting city, such as at Perugia, however, Totila could be merciless, as the Byzantine historian Procopius recounts.
After the defeat, Afranius and Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Sulla the dictator, attempted to escape to Hispania, there to continue resisting Caesar.
After 30 years of resisting offers to produce television animation, Disney finally relented once Michael Eisner, who had a background in TV, took over.
After her parole, resisting efforts at deportation, Iva moved to Chicago, where her father had opened the J. Toguri Mercantile Company Japanese-import retail store during the war, following the release of the Toguri family from internment at the Gila River War Relocation Center in September 1943.
After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
" After Sun Quan's viceroy, Zhou Yu, analysed the situation and pointed out weaknesses in Cao Cao's army, Sun finally agreed to ally with Liu Bei in resisting Cao.
After the election of the fifth National government on 8 November 2008, the Alliance pledged to " play a leading role in resisting the attacks against public services, workers, beneficiaries and students that will be a feature of the new National Government.
After resisting all morning the French troops stampeded in the afternoon.
After Wilson and Akre's contracts were not renewed, they filed a lawsuit concerning WTVT's " news distortion " under Florida's whistleblower laws, claiming their termination was retaliation for " resisting WTVT's attempts to distort or suppress the BGH story.
After surrendering to U. S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska.
After initially resisting, the Thai government reluctantly agreed to let the Japanese pass through the country and use its military bases to strike other Allied possessions in the region, including the Battle of Malaya.
After resisting suggestions for such an organization, he finally gave in to growing pressure, and the Divine Light Mission was registered in Patna in 1960, to develop and structure the growing activities across India.
After the war, the Hukbalahap turned their attention to resisting the government of Manuel Roxas, and along with seven of his colleagues, was elected to the House of Representatives but were not allowed to take their seats in Congress, driving them back to the hills.
After initially resisting to pressures to become the Kingdom of Hungary's vassal, he yielded to king Louis I in 1354, and recognized the right of the Roman Catholic Church to establish missions in his principality, as well as the privilege of Saxon traders from Braşov to transit Wallachia without paying duties.
After initially resisting, the Phibun regime allowed the Japanese to pass through the country in order to attack Burma and invade Malaya.
After resisting its corrupting influence, he then gives it to Zodac, who disposes of it.
After resisting a shakedown from a group of corrupt police detectives, then subsequently ditching their surveillance, Frank and his crew are soon involved in a large-scale West Coast diamond heist organized by Leo.
Angus Calder wrote about the novel in 1991, saying that The ex-public school types in Hornet Squadron are variously oafish, stupid, callow, neurotically disturbed or ( in one case ) positively evil ... Cattermole is a relentless practical joker, liar, bully and thief with homicidal propensities which make him ( Robinson's text insinuates ) just the right type to be a fighter pilot ... After destroying most of his pilots in horrible ways, minutely described, with uncannily precise technical know-how, Robinson, resisting closure, is bound to suggest a kind of ' point ' by his selection of those who are still alive in the last pages.
After Sargon II's death, however, Shebitku appears to have adopted a different policy by actively resisting any new Assyrian expansion into Canaan under Sargon's son and successor Sennacherib.
After the Boxer Uprising, in 1900 when Eight Nation Alliance entered Peking, Sheng and Ronglu initiated East South Mutual Protection ( Chinese: 东南互保 ), resisting the Empress Dowager's Imperial Decree of declaration of war against foreign powers.

After and siege
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.

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