* 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.

After the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Sherman hesitated about committing to military service and ridiculed Lincoln's call for 75, 000 three-month volunteers to quell secession, reportedly saying: " Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning house with a squirt-gun.

After three days of British bombardment in which 350 bombs partially destroyed the cathedral, the Jesuit school and several civilian buildings, Vernon assumed the impasse in which he was and ordered the withdrawal day 21, leaving the Castle and Greenwich Windsord vessels in the vicinity with a mission to intercept a Spanish ship to approach.

After a massive eight-hour artillery bombardment, the Germans did not expect much resistance as they slowly advanced on Verdun and its forts.

After a Confederate artillery bombardment on September 14 and 15, the Federal garrison surrendered.

After two days of defending against an enemy with an overwhelming numerical superiority, enduring heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, and with many of his troops in open flight, it became obvious to Tang that a general retreat was inevitable.

After the Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden to U. S. authorities for his suspected involvement in the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D. C., a US-led international coalition was formed ; after several weeks of aerial bombardment by coalition forces and military action on the ground, including Afghan opposition forces, the Taliban was officially ousted from power on November 17, 2001.

After earlier bombardment of the city, the Battle of Amiens was the opening phase of the Hundred Days Offensive.

After four days of bombardment, little damage was done, and the gunboats retired down river.

After less than a year under the new command, the 28th ’ s mission changed from that of strategic bombardment to one of worldwide conventional munitions delivery.

After a bombardment by the Spanish, the papal troops abandoned their positions and the Spanish put the town to the sack on 15 September.

After an intense bombardment by the grande batterie of Napoleon's artillery and hours of heated fighting, the French overpowered the first defensive lines and seized the town of Bautzen.

After a short artillery bombardment, Davout sent the divisions of Friant and Morand across the Russbach stream, in a flanking attack from the east, while his other two divisions, under Gudin and Puthod were ordered to attack frontally, through the village of Grosshofen.

After initial preparations, the Americans and French built their first parallel and began the bombardment.

After several postponements due to weather, the operation began on July 25, 1944 with a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives, designed so as not to create greater rubble and craters that would slow Allied progress.

After several days of bombardment the British surrendered and the French entered the city.

After numerous JNA armored columns failed to take the city, the Serbs began to concentrate their efforts on weakening it by using continual bombardment from at least 200 reinforced positions and bunkers in the surrounding hills.

After the surrender of the Italian fleet, naval operations in the Mediterranean became relatively mundane, consisting largely of supporting ground troops by bombardment, anti-submarine missions, covert insertions of agents on enemy coast and convoy escort.

After four days of preliminary bombardment with significant casualties for both sides, the Mongols assembled their mangonels around the castle in preparation for a direct siege.

After another bombardment, Rukn al-Din descended from Maymundiz on the 19th day of November.

After two days of bombardment without effecting a breach, Despard ordered a frontal assault.

After Coblenz failed to surrender, Boufflers put it under heavy bombardment, causing much damage, but it did not fall to the enemy.

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 Council of Ephesus had condemned Nestorianism, there remained a conflict between Patriarchs John of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria.

After the passage of the Canon 28, Rome filed a protest against the reduction of honor given to Antioch and Alexandria.

After nearly being excommunicated for his heresy by Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius submitted and agreed to the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicea in 325.

After the pope, primacy is attributed to the patriarchs in the following order: Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem.

After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes and Ercolano ).

After being ordained priest in Kurseong, India he completed a doctorate in Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome on the religious anthropology of Origen of Alexandria.

After spending the next eleven years in Alexandria, he then decided to investigate the philosophical teachings of the Persian philosophers and the Indian philosophers around the age of 38.

After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Ercolano ).

After early studies under leading scholars in Alexandria, he has been chief librarian since about 195 BC ( b. 257 BC )

After Mithridates raised the siege of Alexandria, Caesar defeated Ptolemy's army at the Battle of the Nile, Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with another younger brother Ptolemy XIV as her new co-ruler.

After early studies under leading scholars in Alexandria, he has been chief librarian since about 195 BC ( b. 257 BC )

After the assassination of the rest of the royal family, Zamiatkin reportedly escaped with the children via ship, sailing from Odessa to Alexandria.

After completing his elementary education in Amman, he was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria.

After flowing past Er Roseires inside Sudan, and receiving the Dinder on its right bank at Dinder, the Blue Nile joins the White Nile at Khartoum and, as the River Nile, flows through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria.

After the establishment of the federal capital, Georgetown became an independent municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria, and the newly created County of Washington and County of Alexandria ( now Arlington County, Virginia ).

After Walter C. Laidlaw fell ill, William Aramony became CEO of the national governing body which was known as the United Community Funds and Council of America ( UCFCA ) and in 1970 the organization was renamed United Way of America ( UWA ), and moved from New York City to Alexandria, Virginia in 1971.

After the introduction of Christianity, Phasis was a seat of a Greek diocese, one of whose bishops, Cyrus, became a Patriarch of Alexandria between 630 and 641 AD.

After also visiting Fergus Falls, he moved his wife and newborn son Henry to Alexandria in August 1871.

After the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary Salome, Mary Jacobe, and Mary Magdalene set sail from Alexandria, Egypt with their uncle Joseph of Arimathea.

After he had passed his 80th year, the success of the intrigue of Aelia Eudoxia, queen of emperor Arcadius, and Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, against Chrysostom opened an unexpected way for his elevation to the archiepiscopal throne.

After a confrontation in Alexandria one afternoon, Wright fired a shot at Bowie.

According to Livy ," After receiving the submission of the inhabitants of Memphis and of the rest of the Egyptian people, some submitting voluntarily, others under threats, marched by easy stages towards Alexandria.

After crossing the river at Eleusis, about four miles from Alexandria, he was met by the Roman commissioners, to whom he gave a friendly greeting and held out his hand to Popilius.