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, 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 that battle, a series of omens had been witnessed, including a series of lightning bolts, which Fabius had believed were warnings from the gods.

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 end of the war, he was elected Feldataman, the highest rank in the Cossack hierarchy and one that was traditionally reserved for the Tsar alone.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Before that time, a clique of generals residing in Rio de Janeiro controlled major decisions of the army.

Before the end of November, the main German troops had withdrawn from Tirana, and the communists took control of the capital by fighting what was left from the German army.

Before this transition, however, Lekhanya was ousted in 1991 by a mutiny of junior army officers that left Phisoane Ramaema as Chairman of the Military Council.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before they could form up, the Templar force hacked the Ayyubid army down.

Before Operation Reinhard, over half a million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen, mobile extermination units, in territories conquered by the German army.

Before the powers could respond to the founding of the Roman Republic, Charles Albert, whose army had been trained by the exiled Polish general Albert Chrzanowski, renewed the war with Austria.

Before finishing high school Ivo Lah volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian army to defend the western borders of Slovenia.

Before a game, the gamers agree on how many points will be used as the maximum army size and each assembles an army up to that maximum limit.

Before the Patriot army withdrew from Florida, the Seminole, as allies of the Spanish, began to attack them.

Before Spanish troops could arrive to help defend the missions, the fathers themselves led a Guaraní army against the enemy.

Before the close of the war Custer received brevet promotions to brigadier general and major general in the regular army ( March 13, 1865 ) and major general of volunteers ( April 15, 1865 ).

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 ).

Before Doug lands his plane, Col. Masters is shot by an Arab sniper, causing Doug to destroy the airbase and engulf the runway with napalm to keep the army at bay while he lands and picks up his wounded father.

Before the siege began, the Russian commander Prince Menshikov had evacuated Sevastopol with his field army and left a garrison to defend the city.

Before his death, Zhuge orders his trusted generals to build a statue of himself and use it to scare away the enemy in order to buy time for the Shu Han army to retreat safely.

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

Before a regiment or army was set, there was a period in which no initiation of boys took place.