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 of the 9th seven Japanese naval bombers struck Nichols Field.

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.

* Before the gold rush: flashbacks to the dawn of the Canadian sound by Nicholas Jennings, ( Yorkville ON: Viking, 1997 ) ( ISBN 0-670-87381-0 )

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.

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.

* Before the first assembly on a newly setup RDOS system, the macro assembler ’ s default symbol definitions need to be configured using the following command: < tt >< u > mac / s nbid osid nsid paru </ tt ></ u >

Before the 2008 season, Fenway Park's capacity was increased to 37, 373, where it remains following additional renovations for the 2009 season, making its total capacity the fourth smallest, ahead of Marlins Park, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and Tropicana Field.

All Genoshan mutants leave for Asteroid M. Before long, the country is taken over by Magneto who is ready to declare war on humanity with the Genoshan mutants by his side, following an attack on Professor X during an anti-mutant summit.

Before the steam engine, pits were often shallow bell pits following a seam of coal along the surface, which were abandoned as the coal was extracted.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Tết in the three Vietnamese regions can be divided into three periods, known as Tất Niên ( Before New Year's Eve ), Giao Thừa ( New Year's Eve ), and Tân Niên ( the New Year ), representing the preparation before Tết, the eve of Tết, and the days of and following Tết, respectively.

Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200, 000 European people migrated to Kentucky / Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.

Before the Hornets were eliminated from the playoffs, the NBA approved a deal for the team to move to New Orleans following the season.

Before the 2006 season, following Steinar Nilsen's resignation, Ivar Morten Normark was made the new Tromsø IL manager.

Before dying he met Vibhishana and blessed him for following path of righteousness.

Before its market introduction, the 1201 was renamed 8008, following the new naming convention started with the 4001 / 2 / 3 / 4.

Before 1655 Cape Neddick was inhabited by the following persons and families.

Before his own conversion in his thirties following a nervous breakdown in the Army, as she explains, " My father was Protestant Church of Ireland, and my mother was Unitarian up to the age of 20 when she abandoned it.

Before his death in a plane crash in December 1967, soul singer Otis Redding had been booked to appear on the show the following year.

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 ).

* The town of Swindon abandoned the use of fixed cameras in 2009, questioning their cost effectiveness with the cameras being replaced by vehicle activated warning signs and enforcement by police using mobile speed cameras: in the nine months following the switch-off there was a small reduction in accident rates which had changed slightly in similar periods before and after the switch off ( Before: 1 fatal, 1 serious and 13 slight accidents.

Before Wilfrid's return Oswiu had appointed Ceadda in his place, resulting in Wilfrid's retirement to Ripon for a few years following his arrival back in Northumbria.

Before stating a precise definition of free variable and bound variable, the following are some examples that perhaps make these two concepts clearer than the definition would:

Before the Xi ' an incident, the Chinese Communist Party had established itself in Shaanxi province following being driven from Jiangxi and other regions in southern China in 1934.

Before 1950, over 15 million people emigrated from the Soviet-occupied eastern European countries and immigrated into the west in the five years immediately following World War II.

The following year Hawke again received critical praise, this time for his performance in Richard Linklater's 1995 drama Before Sunrise.