Before admission to the bar, he was invited to enter politics by local Republican Party leaders upon the death of Cyrus Prentiss, the presumed nominee for the state senate seat for the 26th District in Ohio.

Before the final attack began, Xenophon, the main relator of the events at Cunaxa, who was probably at the time some kind of mid-level officer, approached Cyrus to ensure that all the proper orders and dispositions had been made.

Before returning to the capital, a Lydian named Pactyas was entrusted by Cyrus the Great to send Croesus's treasury to Persia.

Before leaving the Caspian region for Iran and Afghanistan in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE these people may have been living in the valleys of Cyrus and Cambyses in Armenia.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Before that time, a clique of generals residing in Rio de Janeiro controlled major decisions of the army.

Before the battle, the Cossack army totaled 80, 000 men ; 28, 000-33, 000 Tatars and uncertain numbers of Ukrainian peasants.

Before the end of November, the main German troops had withdrawn from Tirana, and the communists took control of the capital by fighting what was left from the German army.

Before this transition, however, Lekhanya was ousted in 1991 by a mutiny of junior army officers that left Phisoane Ramaema as Chairman of the Military Council.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before they could form up, the Templar force hacked the Ayyubid army down.

Before Operation Reinhard, over half a million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen, mobile extermination units, in territories conquered by the German army.

Before the battle began, an army of Orcs and Wargs descended on Erebor.

Before the powers could respond to the founding of the Roman Republic, Charles Albert, whose army had been trained by the exiled Polish general Albert Chrzanowski, renewed the war with Austria.

Before the battle King Charles II contracted the Worcester Clothiers to outfit his army with uniforms but was unable to pay the £ 453. 3s bill.

Before finishing high school Ivo Lah volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian army to defend the western borders of Slovenia.

Before a game, the gamers agree on how many points will be used as the maximum army size and each assembles an army up to that maximum limit.

Before the Patriot army withdrew from Florida, the Seminole, as allies of the Spanish, began to attack them.

Before Spanish troops could arrive to help defend the missions, the fathers themselves led a Guaraní army against the enemy.

Before the close of the war Custer received brevet promotions to brigadier general and major general in the regular army ( March 13, 1865 ) and major general of volunteers ( April 15, 1865 ).

Before the battle, Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne united his Franco-German army with an all-French army led by Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( then known as the Duc d ' Enghien, courtesy title of the heir to the Condé honours, to which he would not succeed until the following year ).

Before Doug lands his plane, Col. Masters is shot by an Arab sniper, causing Doug to destroy the airbase and engulf the runway with napalm to keep the army at bay while he lands and picks up his wounded father.

Before the siege began, the Russian commander Prince Menshikov had evacuated Sevastopol with his field army and left a garrison to defend the city.

Before his death, Zhuge orders his trusted generals to build a statue of himself and use it to scare away the enemy in order to buy time for the Shu Han army to retreat safely.

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

Before a regiment or army was set, there was a period in which no initiation of boys took place.

Before 1537 Cabeza de Vaca crossed central Texas or northern Mexico from the Gulf to northwest Mexico.

Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

( Before the bridge was completed trains crossed the river by ferry.

Before 1852 those on the north side of the Platte crossed the North Platte to the south side at Fort Laramie.

Before the county's creation, The Chisholm Trail's many routes crossed the area.

Before this attack, reinforced the castle Chestnut ( Santa Barbara ) with Aragonese who had crossed the bridge.

Before the building of the bridge the crossing was made by a road raised above the bed of the river, which only allowed the river to be crossed in summer.

Before desertification made the caravan trails leading across the Rub ' al Khali so difficult, the caravans of the frankincense trade crossed now virtually impassable stretches of wasteland, until about AD 300.

Before leaving England, Whitaker had crossed paths with a York merchant who later became an English naval captain and explorer of New England, Christopher Levett off York.

Before he knew it, they had crossed the ford.

Before the Hringvegur ( the main ring road round the island ) was built, people feared traversing the plains in front of the volcano because of the frequent jökulhlaups ( glacial floods ) and the deep rivers to be crossed, although the road is still vulnerable to major events.

Before the Second World War circulated, between Belfort and Réchésy a railroad of local interest with metric gauge track which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.

Before the Interstate era, M-21 extended across the entire Lower Peninsula, from the junction with US 31 in Holland near Lake Michigan east to the St. Clair River at Port Huron, and crossed into Canada where the Blue Water Bridge is currently located.

Before the arrival of the Loyalists, the Patriots removed the planks from the bridge that crossed Moore's Creek.

Before 1952, the inner German border could be crossed at almost any point along its length.

Before the nature of the signal was determined, the researchers, Bell and her Ph. D supervisor Antony Hewish, somewhat seriously considered the possibility of extraterrestrial life: We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission.

Before construction of I-68, U. S. 40 ( now Scenic U. S. 40 ), the National Road, crossed Sideling Hill with a steep grade on each side and a sharp hairpin turn at the crest of the mountain.

Before you reached Coward's Corner, you crossed yellow lines with the stenciled message: ' Cowards Keep Walking.

Before the freeway was built, the route went through Simi Valley on Los Angeles Avenue and Keuhner Drive, then crossed into the San Fernando Valley on Santa Susana Pass Road.

Before it was demolished, the Hornibrook Bridge which crossed Bramble Bay in Queensland, Australia was longer than the Poughkeepsie Bridge at 2. 8 km ( 1. 7 mi ).

Before the fourteenth year of Rajendra ’ s reign c. 1025, the Chola Navy crossed the ocean and attacked the Srivijaya kingdom of Sangrama Vijayatungavarman.

Before the construction of the bridge, the main road passed through the centre of the village and crossed Loch Long via a short ferry ride.

Before its opening in 1997, getting to the origin of the road was a hard task for traffic coming from Casablanca, as the centre of Rabat had to be crossed.

Before the end of May 1857, emissaries from Delhi crossed the river from Sirsa and Hissar, where open rebellion was already rife, and met with a ready reception from the Kharals and other Jat clans.