Before dawn.

Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding.

Before dawn on March 16, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led several hundred of his rebel soldiers across the Mexican border into the southern county village of Columbus.

Before the dawn, then, the light infantry disarrayed the Gallic defenses and, subsequently, the heavy infantry and the pikemen of the Romans finished their enemy.

Before dawn on March 15, the battering ram Grond smashed into the Great Gate three times while the Witch-king spoke words of power.

Before the dawn of the third day, the Pope, exhausted by grief and the long vigil he had kept, dozed off.

Before dawn, these men were to join up with the main army.

Before dawn on 19 June, his little army was taken by surprise and almost destroyed, because Bruce had accepted Valence at his word and failed to take the precaution of placing pickets around the camp.

Before dawn the following day, the crack Highland regiments were ordered to advance in close order.

Before the dawn of the next day, the Indians attacked, but Harrison's men held their ground, and the Indians withdrew from the village after the battle.

Before dawn on the morning of 16 April 1945 the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of General Konev started the attack over the river Neisse with a short but massive bombardment by tens of thousands of artillery pieces.

Before dawn, Wayne sent a brief dispatch telling Washington, " The fort and garrison, with Col. Johnson, are ours.

Before dawn, November 24, Bouchard ordered his men to board the boats.

Before the dawn of time, Order and Chaos existed within an extradimensional entity known as The One.

Before dawn on 10 July, as Rommel focused his efforts on the southern flank of the battlefield, the 9th Division attacked the north flank of the enemy positions and captured the strategic high ground around Tel el Eisa.

Before dawn, the Akechi army had Honnō-ji surrounded in a coup.

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Before dawn he used to go from the Eastern coast of sea to the Western coast and from the Northern coast of the sea to the Southern coast to pay his homage to Surya-the sun-god.

Before Pentecost festivities, before the dawn broke, young Seto men held a ritual fight until the first drop of blood was shed.

Before dawn and after sundown these birds often congregate in large numbers in a particular area, for example roofs and tree branches.

Before dawn the women awoke to say their morning prayers.

Before dawn on October 15, Confederate artillery opened up and Shelby's troops advanced on Glasgow, forcing the defender to fall back toward their fortifications on nearby Hereford Hill, where they formed a defensive line in the face of the relentless Confederate advance.

Before the dawn of history, in the time of myth, it is said that Semuanya had a mate, Kecuala by name.

Before the next day, Ghori attacked the Rajput army before dawn.

Map of Israel as it was in the 9th century Before Christ | BC.

Before the persecution of Buddhism in the 9th century, Buddhism and Daoism were accepted side by side, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ( r. 712 – 56 ) invited monks and clerics of both religions to his court.

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before receiving the 9th kyu, the first rank, a student must demonstrate the ability to smoothly roll in a variety of directions without exposing the neck to injury.

Before his other two brigades could arrive from England and Australia, Wynter became seriously ill. Blamey decided to send him home and appointed Morshead to command the 9th Division on 29 January 1941.

Before this breakthrough was attempted, however, the 9th Division was subjected to numerous counter-attacks by German forces and many of the division's units suffered so many casualties that they were described as " mere skeletons ".

Before Foy's men could consolidate their gain, they were attacked by the 9th Foot and 38th Foot of Leith and some of Picton's men.

Before the emergence of Portugal, between the 9th and the 12th centuries, its territory was part of important military conflicts – these were mainly the result of three processes.

Before advancing, the generals decided to reconnoitre ; Brigadier-General Potter of the 9th Brigade ( 3rd Division ) and Major-General Watts, commander of the 7th Division, eventually walked almost to the edge of High Wood without a shot being fired.

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 the 9th century, the Beachley peninsula and the mouth of the Wye were part of the Welsh kingdom of Gwent.

Before the Habsburg province was established, several other entities had existed in the Banat region, including: the Voivodeship of Glad ( 9th century ), the Voivodeship of Ahtum ( 11th century ), the Banate of Severin frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary ( from 1233 to the 16th century ), the Ottoman province named Eyalet of Temeşvar ( 1552 – 1716 ), and the Banate of Lugos and Karansebes province within the Principality of Transylvania ( 16th – 17th century ), which was under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire as a whole.

Before the Battle of Karbala, on the 9th day of Muharram.

Before this, the Sidama had their own well-established administrative systems that dated at least to the 9th century, though it was made up of a loose coalition of Sidama kingdoms.

Before he died, the man had stated that his assailants were men of the 9th Lancers.

Before Nick and Kaela enter the only remaining pod, the computer warns them that the 9th dimensional matter is reacting with the gravity of the blue giant sun and will cause a 9th dimensional reaction that will spread in all directions, such that the reaction's resulting supernova will reach Earth within 51 years.

Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish.

Before Lincoln's inauguration, seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy.

Before that there had not been any large Frankish catapult in Cathay China, but Talib, a catapult-maker from this land, had gone to Baalbek and Damascus, and his sons Abubakr, Ibrahim, and Muhammad, and his employees made seven large catapults and set out to conquer the city Fu or Hsiang-yang fu = modern Xiangfan.

Before the construction of several tunnels and modern roads that now connect it to Fujisawa, Ofuna and Zushi, on land it could be entered only through narrow artificial passes, among which the seven most important were called, a name sometimes translated as " Kamakura's Seven Mouths ".

Before forming the Mountain West Conference, seven of the eight charter members had been longtime members of the Western Athletic Conference ; half were WAC charter members at its formation in 1962-UNLV had only joined the WAC in 1996.

Before giving birth ( usually in May ), the female will excavate a den to house her litter of four to seven kits.

Before the ceremony, they are required to herd cattle for seven days in order to prove they are worthy of being called a warrior.

Before the subdivision reform of 1952 there were seven entities in the area.

Before 1876, the US Army had destroyed seven Cheyenne camps, more than those of any other nation.

Before such health problems he was an extensive traveller, and has set foot on all seven continents, ( including Antarctica ); he has stated that his favourite two countries were Iceland and Norway.

Before the year was over, however, he was able to avenge that defeat, defeating Montilla by a knockout in round eight, and he won seven of his eight other fights that year.

Before that, the Defender of the Eastern Section ( 東部都尉 ) was put to rule former Lintun's seven prefectures.

Before finally publishing the poem in 1938 he had drafted seven different versions.

Before writing Pattern Recognition, the author, William Gibson, published seven novels ( one co-written ) and numerous short stories beginning in 1977.

Before the 1906 earthquake, the house had been seven stories high, but today it is only four stories.

Before and after the mating season, both males and females make a five to seven note rise on the pitch scale.

Before that, Harriet spent seven years hiding in a tiny space built into her grandmother's barn to see and hear the voices of her children.

Before the Ha ' penny Bridge was built there were seven ferries, operated by a William Walsh, across the Liffey.

I didn't make another movie for seven years after winning the Oscar .... Before West Side Story I was always offered the stereotypical Latina roles.

Nostradamus references the Jacquerie in Quatrain X: 72: In the year 1999 and seven months / From the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful king / to rise again the great kings of the Jacquerie / Before and after, Mars shall reign at will.

Before 1987, Clifton was a boys-only school with seven boarding houses ( School House, Brown's, Watson's, Dakyn's, Oakeley's, Wiseman's, Polack's ) and three day houses ( East Town, North Town and The South Town ).

Before the Second World War, Guards recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 10 inches tall, they initially enlisted for seven years with the colours and a further five years with the reserve or four years and eight years.

Before the dissolution in 2004, the district had seven towns as listed below.

Before his death, Kaneyama had undertaken a new project: teaching a group of seven teenage girls how to use dark magic to take revenge on those they deem " guilty ," beginning with an abusive teacher.