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 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.

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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 then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.

Before thee, did not other kings possess it for a while, then pass away?

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

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.

Before the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).

Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1945 – 1975 ).

Before the Prussians and their neighbors to the west, the Pomeranians, were finally brought to heel, Polish rulers and the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples, would be continually frustrated in their aims at northern expansion.

Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, then with house arrest, and finally in prison again.

Before then, effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered by both the low reloading speed and, before the firing mechanism was perfected, the very high risk posed by the firearm to the person attempting to fire it.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Before then, he was either mad, or not ; either a hero, or not ; with no in-betweens.

Before then each referee had always been assigned to a specific match by a special commission of referees ( designatori arbitrali ).

Before the nineteenth century, the scholar Nitsa Ben-Ari notes that his work was shunned like that of converts, then banned as those of a traitor, whose work was not to be studied or translated into Hebrew.

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 ).

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Before the widespread availability of incendiary ammunition made commerce raiding too risky, they would also land or hover close to a merchant ship suspected of carrying contraband, order all ship's hands to leave in boats, then inspect the ship, and either destroy it or take it back to Germany as prize.

Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.

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

Before then, children have no social standing within the community.

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

Before his consecration, Mellitus baptised Sæberht, Æthelberht's nephew, who then allowed the bishopric to be established.