After surprising Colonel Frank Johnson and his troops at the Battle of San Patricio, Urrea's forces defeated a small Texan force at the Battle of Agua Dulce on March 2, 1836.

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

After recovering from a liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a successful comeback with his album Alma, surprising the audience with the song " Mola mazo " (" It rules ") in an exercise of self-assertion.

After George Washington crossed the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, the fact that thousands of Hessian troops had been drawn to Mount Holly aided in the Continental Army's success in the Battle of Trenton the next day, a surprising American victory that helped turn the Army's fading morale after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fort Washington just weeks before and the ignominious retreat through New Jersey.

After " two thirds of the day " had elapsed a squadron of the elite Persian cavalry broke through the Roman right flank, composed of Belisarius ' Ghassanid allies, with surprising force such that the Ghassanids were accused of treachery after they fled.

After being demolished at tennis by Pancho Gonzales, he wrote that he considered himself to be a fairly accomplished tennis player and that the drubbing by Gonzales was the most surprising of his ventures against the great athletes of his time.

After struggling early in the season, his impressive play later on made him a finalist for the Vezina Trophy for the third straight year, and helped lead the Devils to a surprising comeback in the last two months of the season that resulted in them winning the Atlantic Division in the final game of the year.

After the surprising victory of the National Party in 1948, won on the program of implementing a strict program of apartheid or racial segregation and white minority rule, Malan became Prime Minister of South Africa and Strijdom became Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

After fellow Family member Charles " Tex " Watson shot and killed teenager Steven Parent in his car in the estates ' driveway, Watson, Susan Atkins, and Krenwinkel entered the house, surprising all inside.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

After a while of enduring Edgar's temper tantrums and hysterical accusations and self-pitying moping, she began to stay longer at her office or on the film set: it is hardly surprising she craved laughs and pleasant conversation with youthful, handsome colleagues instead of being harangued by Edgar.

After an unglamorous decade, IFK were led by manager and retired footballer Bertil Johansson to a surprising championship title in 1969.

In 1988 Brehm told author Larry Sneed, " After the car passed the building coming toward us, I heard a ... surprising noise, and ( the President ) reached with both hands up to the side of his throat and kind of stiffened out .... And when he got down in the area just past me, the second shot hit which damaged, considerably damaged, the top of his head .... That car took off in an evasive motion ... and was just beyond me when a third shot went off.

After a Hurricane Hunters plane observed gale force winds, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Arlene late on July 5 ; in the post-season summary, meteorologist Neil Frank noted, " the surprising element in the development of Arlene was the rapidity of the transformation process.

After working itself into more and more ecstatic heights culminating with the final variation, it suddenly goes through a surprising modulation to the original minor key, and the theme from the first movement returns with an even greater gravity, and the entire piece concludes with yet another death march.

After a restart, most top contenders developed problems, which paved the way for Heinz-Harald Frentzen to claim a surprising victory in his Jordan.

After 2 ... d5, 3. exd5 Nxd5 4. Bc4 Nb6 or ... Nxc3 is considered roughly equal ; 4 ... e6 loses a pawn to the surprising 5. Bxd5 exd5 6.

After leading them to a surprising ninth-place finish and having the club in sixth place midway through the 2005 – 06 season, Donadoni resigned over criticism from club chairman Aldo Spinelli.

After a meteoric start to his career, surprising even his original producer at Deram Records with the hit singles " I Love My Dog ", " Matthew and Son " and " I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun ", Stevens ' debut album, Matthew and Son began charting as well.

After a surprising fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Harris coined the term " winnowed in ", saying " The winnowing-out process has begun and we have just been ' winnowed in '".

After his election as commander of the expedition, Crawford led about 500 volunteers deep into American Indian territory with the hope of surprising them.

After making mainly small 2000 cc race cars that were supposed to be closely related to road cars, Porsche made a risky investment by unexpectedly building twenty-five 5000 cc Porsche 917, surprising the rule makers at the FIA.

Jordan contemplated that " soap snobs " may hold the series in disdain for using the Holby brand, but concluded: " After much thought, I remembered who I was as a writer, the joy I take from surprising an audience, by subverting expectation – and HolbyBlue was born.

After saving Schofield from a French aircraft carrier, Mother desperately tries to stop Schofield from committing suicide, surprising him by using his actual name and convincing him to continue with his mission.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

After the 1778 alliance with France, the U. S. did not sign another permanent treaty until the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

After having been assured by James that all rumours about a French alliance were malevolent fabrications, Dijkvelt returned to the Republic, with letters of varying importance from leading English statesmen.

After briefly opposing Revolutionary France early in the French Revolutionary Wars, Spain was cajoled into an uneasy alliance with its northern neighbor, only to be blockaded by the British.

After the United Kingdom's and France's political intervention in 1927 with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the alliance crumbled.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Ribbentrop expanded on this idea for an Axis alliance to include the Soviet Union to form a Eurasian bloc that would destroy maritime states such as Britain.

After the victory of blossameg Leo was dispatched on a diplomatic mission to Alania and Lazica to organize an alliance against the Umayyad Caliphate under Al-Walid I. Leo was appointed commander ( stratēgos ) of the Anatolic theme by Emperor Anastasius II.

After Louis's death, Landulf II of Capua briefly flirted with a Saracen alliance, but Pope John VIII convinced him to break it off.

After 1946 Beria formed an alliance with Malenkov to counter Zhdanov's rise.

After Caesar's assassination, Antony formed an official political alliance with Octavian ( the future Augustus ) and Lepidus, known to historians today as the Second Triumvirate.

After a brief alliance with the Transvaal Ndebele, Mzilikazi became leader of the Ndebele people.

After Cadwallon ap Cadfn, the king of Gwynedd, in alliance with the pagan Penda of Mercia, killed Edwin of Deira in battle at Hatfield Chase in 633 ( or 632, depending on when the years used by Bede are considered to have begun ), Northumbria was split between its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.

After the February 26, 1990 elections, the Sandinistas lost and peacefully passed power to the National Opposition Union ( UNO ), an alliance of 14 opposition parties ranging from the conservative business organization COSEP to Nicaraguan communists.

After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024 ), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II ( who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ).

After months of strained relations, Horkheimer and Adorno reestablished their essential theoretical alliance during meetings in Paris.

After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay ( 841 ) and sealed their alliance with the Oaths of Strasbourg ( 842 ), Lothair became willing to negotiate instead of continuing the warfare.

After capturing a British invasion army in 1777, the U. S. formed an alliance with France ( and in turn Spain aided France ), evening out the military balance.

After the apparent overthrow of the Shing by Terran descendants from Alterra / Werel, the alliance is eventually reconstructed as the Ekumen.

After the founding of the Lombard League in 1167, Milan took the leading role in this alliance.

After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany and the Axis and ensuring Adolf Hitler's confidence, he eliminated the Guard during the Legionary Rebellion of 1941.

After a period of alliance with France, Belgium tried to return to neutrality in the 1930s but by September 1939 war broke out in Europe and Germany invaded the Low Countries within the year.

After negotiations, the heqin agreement in 198 BCE nominally held the leaders of the Xiongnu and the Han as equal partners in a royal marriage alliance, but the Han were forced to send large amounts of tribute items such as silk clothes, food, and wine to the Xiongnu.

After some guerrilla actions, Asti signed a pact of alliance with Pavia, Genoa and William VII of Montferrat.

After years of co-operation between the national Green Parties they formed a pan-European alliance that unites most European Green parties.