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.

< gallery caption =" Before, during, and after the war " widths =" 180px " heights =" 150px " perrow =" 3 ">

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.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

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

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip.

Before 1998, each county also had municipal or justice courts that heard some of the cases.

Before the implementation of the home-rule charter on January 1, 2000, there were three county commissioners.

Before the county established its own government, it was known as Nottoway Parish, a district of Amelia County.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

Before Oklahoma's admission as a state, the county was the entire small portion of Indian Territory allocated to the Seminoles.

Before statehood, Kay County was formed from the “ Cherokee Strip ” or “ Cherokee Outlet ” and originally designated as county “ K .” Its name means simply that.

Before becoming Rolla, the county seat was Dunseith from 1884 to 1885 and St. John from 1885 to 1889.

Before becoming Watford City, the county seat was Alexander from 1905 to 1907 and Schafer from 1907 to 1941.

Before becoming Towner in 1886, the county seat was Villard from 1884 to 1885 and Scriptown from 1885 to 1886.

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 high court could make a decision, however, the Legislature took action on January 14, 1860, confirming the location of the county seat at Rolla.

Before the county ’ s formation, the primary settlement was Frenchtown, which was settled in as early as 1784 along the banks of the River Raisin.

Before January 1, 1914, the county was part of neighboring Fremont County.

Before the New Deal, when the Tennessee Valley Authority built Guntersville Dam, flooding on the Tennessee River would frequently leave the county courthouse in Guntersville inaccessible for residents of Albertville and other areas atop Sand Mountain.

Before he was married, Ramiro had a mistress named Amuña with whom he had a natural son, Sancho Ramírez, in whom he confided the government of the county of Ribagorza.

Before European settlement, the area which is now Conyers, along with the surrounding county of Rockdale, was occupied by mound-building Native Americans.

Before the end of the year, the town called for an election to relocate the county seat, which at that time was in Fort Calhoun.

Before they incorporated to become a village, the residents of Selfridge fought a losing struggle to have Selfridge designated as the county seat before Sioux County became separated from Morton County.

Before this the county carried the arms of Småland and Öland side by side.

Before Stewart's death, a museum to his memory was opened on the third floor of the local public library, and a bronze statue of Stewart was erected in his honor at the county courthouse during his 75th birthday.