Before that, the first known people of European descent to come to the area were the troops of the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War.

Before the Revolutionary War, the patroons acted as feudal lords, with the right to make laws.

Before the Revolutionary War, the area was mined for iron.

Before the American Revolutionary War, on 3 June 1769, Hopkins was involved in the observation of a rare astronomical event, the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.

The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War, 1978, 2000.

Before the Treaty of Paris, which formalized America ’ s independence from Great Britain, American shipping was protected by France during the Revolutionary years under the Treaty of Alliance ( 1778 – 83 ).

Before and during the American Revolutionary War, the Catholics in Great Britain's thirteen colonies in America ( and also its colonies in Canada ) were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of the London District, in England.

Before the Revolutionary War, indigo accounted for more than one-third of the total value of exports from the colony.

Before the American Revolutionary War, coins from many European nations circulated freely in the American colonies, as did coinage issued by the various colonies.

Before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, Cooke played an active role in the political and judicial aspects of local government.

Before the Franco-American Alliance, the royalist French government attempted to maintain a state of respectful neutrality during the Revolutionary War.

Before the Revolutionary War, colonial settlers of primarily Scots-Irish, German, and English extraction migrated into the Yadkin basin from Virginia and Pennsylvania using the Great Wagon Road.

Before the French Revolutionary Wars, Naples was ruled by the Bourbon King Ferdinand IV.

Before the Revolutionary War he had sailed to nearly every quarter of the earth, commanded a privateer in the French and Indian War, and served as a deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly.

Before the American Revolutionary War, the patroons acted as feudal lords, with the right to make laws.

Before the American Revolutionary War, Little Cambridge became a small, prosperous farming community with fewer than 300 residents.

Before and during the American Revolutionary War the Jews had representatives of their faith upon both sides of the controversy, though the majority joined the colonial side.

Before 22 Prairial the Revolutionary Tribunal had pronounced 1, 220 death-sentences in thirteen months ; during the forty-nine days between the passing of the law and the fall of Robespierre 1, 376 persons were condemned ( an average of 28 per day ), including many innocent victims.

Before it dissolved, The Fire by Night Organizing Committee wrote the most extensive summation of lessons from Love & Rage, After Winter Must Come Spring: Analysis of the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation.

Before that, Rezaee was the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Chief Commander for 16 years.

Before he was legally old enough to enlist, he entered the Continental Army as a private during the Revolutionary War.

Before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he was appointed by Khomeini to the Revolutionary Council and later took up various political and religious positions.

* Idem, The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before The First World War.

Before the close of the American Revolutionary War, Martin immigrated to North Carolina.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

Before the Israeli military occupied Sinai during the June 1967 War ( Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War ), a single Egyptian governorate administered the whole peninsula.

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

Before the war, Carthage had the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

" Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible.

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 war ended, the Australian Government took steps to encourage an Australian automotive industry.

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

Before the war, African political focus was diffuse.

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Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before the 1997 civil war, the Republic of the Congo's system of government was similar to that of the French.

Before the beginning of the Syrian uprising / civil war, the obligatory military service period was being decreased over time.

Before the war Rome and Hasdrubal the Fair had made a treaty.

Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out.

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

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

* 1264 – Before May – Second Barons ' War, an English civil war, begins.