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 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 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 her, erotica written by women was rare, with a few notable exceptions, such as the work of Kate Chopin.

Before the 19th century, tattoos and piercings were very common among the Aleut people, especially among women.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

Before beginning the story-telling sessions, the ten young Florentines, 7 women and 3 men, referred to as the Brigata, gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and together decide to escape Black Death by leaving the city to stay in a villa in the countryside for the next two weeks.

Before World War II, most elite university faculties counted among their numbers few, if any, Jews, blacks, women, or other minorities ; Yale was no exception.

Before women obtained the right to vote in 1920, Lillian Daley was an active Suffragette, participating in marches.

Before a white militia was able to respond, the rebels killed 60 men, women, and children.

Before allotment, women divorced easily and had important political and social status, as they were usually the center of their kin network.

Before this, only the summer semester was coeducational, to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break.

Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry have already noticed Sugar Kane ( Marilyn Monroe ), the band's vocalist and ukulele player, marveling over how she walks " like jello on springs ," as they struggle along in their high heels not at all sure they will be able to " pass " as women.

Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women ’ s bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996-97 school year.

Before, there were makeup lines for white women and others for black women.

Before the closing of the theatres, all female roles had been played by boys, and the predominantly male audiences of the 1660s and 1670s were curious, censorious, and delighted at the novelty of seeing real women engage in risqué repartee and take part in physical seduction scenes.

Before Addams ' powerful influence on the profession, social work was largely informed by a " friendly visitor " model in which typically wealthy women of high public stature visited impoverished individuals and, through systematic assessment and intervention, aimed to improve the lives of the poor.

Before her own marriage, Stone felt that women should be allowed to divorce drunken husbands, to formally end a " loveless marriage " so that " a true love may grow up in the soul of the injured one from the full enjoyment of which no legal bond had a right to keep her ... Whatever is pure and holy, not only has a right to be, but it has a right also to be recognized, and further, I think it has no right not to be recognized.

Before indoor plumbing, the housewife also had to carry all the water used for washing, boiling, and rinsing the laundry ; according to an 1886 calculation, women fetched water eight to ten times every day from a pump, well, or spring.

Before the 19th century, military circles supported the notion that all persons, including unarmed women and children, were still the enemy, with the belligerent ( nation or person engaged in conflict ) having conquering rights over them.

Before that, four women were granted the title as individuals as Woman of the Year – Wallis Simpson in 1936, Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek ) in 1937, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, and Corazon Aquino in 1986.

Before 1874, when Massachusetts passed the nation's first legislation limiting the number of hours women and child factory workers could perform to 10 hours a day, virtually no labor legislation existed in the country.

Before Title IX, women coached 90 % of women's teams, in 1978 that percentage dropped to 58, and in 2004 it dropped even more to 44 percent.

Before taking office, he spent some time secluded in a cave, without women, forbidden to eat salt, or to go out during daylight.

Before official admission of women to the University, several women were able to complete graduate degrees through credit earned during the summer sessions.