Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

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

Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, Quintus Dellius, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans.

Before sailing for home, Eleanor got the terrible news that Raymond, with whom she had the winning battle plan for the Crusade, had been beheaded by the overpowering forces of the Muslim armies from Edessa.

Before a battle the sarissa were carried in two pieces and then slid together when they were being used.

Before Mormon's death in battle, he passed the golden plates to Moroni.

In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim, becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo.

Before the battle, Oswald had a wooden cross erected ; he knelt down, holding the cross in position until enough earth had been thrown in the hole to make it stand firm.

Before the battle started, Muhammad had given orders for the Muslims to attack with their ranged weapons, and only engage the Quraysh with melee weapons when they advanced.

Before he died in battle, he was reported to have said: " Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs a fight!

Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can.

Before the battle, Henry rallies his troops with the famous St. Crispin's Day Speech, referring to " we few, we happy few, we band of brothers ".

Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, " Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of ' crazy ', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather.

Before Cyrus and his army crossed the Aras River to battle with northern tribes, he installed his son Cambyses II as king in case he should not return from battle.

" Before sending Admiral Wilhelm Marschall out in Operation Juno, Raeder told him: " We must engage the enemy in battle, even if this should cost us one of the battleships.

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

Before the battle, Abijah addressed the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again.

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 the Tripartite Dinner Meeting of November 29, 1943 at the Tehran Conference, Churchill presented Stalin with a specially commissioned ceremonial sword ( the " Sword of Stalingrad ", made in Sheffield ) commemorating the victory in the battle of Stalingrad, as a gift from King George VI to the citizens of Stalingrad and the people of the Soviet Union.

Before the battle, there was evidently much debate amongst the Boeotarchs about whether to fight or not.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Before his death in 1987, Kaye demonstrated his ability to conduct an orchestra during a comical, but technically sound, series of concerts organized for UNICEF fundraising.

After 350, 000 BP ( Before Present ) the more refined so-called Levallois technique was developed, a series of consecutive strikes, by which scrapers, slicers (" racloirs "), needles, and flattened needles were made.

Before the Test series started he scored consecutive centuries against Tasmania and Australia A these were his first in two years.

Before the one-day series, Cronje received repeated calls from " Sanjay " asking him to fix a match.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

He then teamed up with Dick Lester to devise a series of six TV programmes Before Midnight for ABC in Birmingham in 1958.

The series has also been parodied on The Simpsons and notably in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", which was described by Wired magazine as a " touchstone " for fans.

Before it was published, however, the TV series aired " The Seventh ", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced last-minute revisions to Dillard's book.

Before Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount had planned a new Star Trek television series to have been named Star Trek: Phase II.

Before the Enclosure Acts of 1750, the Ridgeway existed as an informal series of tracks across the chalk downs, chosen by travellers based on path conditions.

Before the 2011 World Series, the team is 16 – 20 in individual playoff games, and 4 – 4 overall for postseason series.

Before the project could gain momentum Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger, requiring her to leave the series.

In developing the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", series creator Gene Roddenberry changed the captain's name to James T. Kirk after rejecting other options like Hannibal, Timber, Flagg, and Raintree.

Before going bankrupt, Palisades Toys was to release a line of deluxe series action figures, for adults, as part of Sesame Workshop's push to expand into retro products for teens and adults.

Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations ; they were composed between 362 and 365.

Before the beginning of the series, Riker was involved in a romantic relationship with Counselor Troi on her home planet of Betazed.

Before the late 20th century the northeastern end of the Horseshoe Falls was in the United States, flowing around the Terrapin Rocks, which was once connected to Goat Island by a series of bridges.

Throughout the 1960s, Nimoy appeared in a number of other TV series including Bonanza ( 1960 ), The Rebel ( 1960 ), Two Faces West ( 1961 ), Rawhide ( episode, Incident Before Black Pass.

Before valves became common about 1800, the horn could play only the notes of the overtone series from a single fundamental pitch.