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.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

After his coronation, Alexios V began to strengthen the defenses of Constantinople and ended negotiations with the Latins.

After a month and two days of fighting, the war ended as a moral disaster for Bulgaria, in the same time its economy was ruined and the military – demoralized.

After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge four-day popular feast and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running naked through the streets in order to display their great freedom.

After the season ended, the Orioles showcased altered uniforms, with a circular ' Maryland ' patch added to the left-hand sleeve of all jerseys and the grey road jerseys displaying Baltimore across the chest for the first time since 1972.

After the war ended local parties started to develop in Chad.

After the eventual breakup of the peace negotiations, which had been stalled numerous times and finally ended due to a guerrilla kidnapping of a congressman and other political figures, the Caguán demilitarized zone was terminated by the Pastrana administration.

After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

After it proved popular in the clubs, this Coldcut " Seven Minutes of Madness " remix ended up being promoted as the single in the UK.

After the war ended and men returned home to find jobs in the workplace, male chauvinism was on the rise.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

After the war ended, Soviet Union seized all of Nissan ’ s Manchuria assets, while the Occupation Forces made use of over half of the Yokohama plant.

After tension between Russia and Britain in Europe ended with the June 1878 Congress of Berlin, Russia turned its attention to Central Asia.

After consoling his fate by the science of numbers for four years, he ended his life.

After Ellen Runyon died of the effects of her own drinking problems, Runyon and Patrice married ; that marriage ended in 1946 when Patrice left Runyon for a younger man.

After the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China ended, Munch was the first Western artist to have his pictures exhibited at the National Gallery in Beijing.

After four hundred years of hiding, the Scourge ended, and the people emerged to a world changed by the Horrors.

After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.

After the war ended, Capra, along with directors William Wyler and George Stevens, founded Liberty Films.

After the war ended, the great powers pressured Denmark into ending the four hundred year-old tradition of the Sound Dues, thus eliminating at a stroke the canal's usefulness as an alternative to the Øresund.

After a brief investigation of their allegations was ended, Sato and Suzuki were arrested and charged with theft and trespass.

After the series ended, two OVAs, compiling various scenes from the series along with a few minutes of new footage, were released in 1996 as Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor I, II and III.

After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to private practice, opening a law firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell.

After their able leader Totila was killed at the Battle of Taginae, effective Ostrogothic resistance ended, and the remaining Goths were assimilated by the Lombards, another Germanic tribe, who invaded Italy and founded a Kingdom in the northern parts of the country in 567 AD.