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Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
Following a prolonged siege and a bloody struggle, in which Hannibal himself was wounded and the army practically destroyed, the Carthaginians finally took control of the city.
Following this, Strathbogie moved to lay siege to Kildrummy Castle, held by Lady Christian Bruce, sister of the late King Robert and wife of the Guardian, Andrew de Moray.
Following a prolonged siege, Paris fell on 28 January 1871.
Following up this success he laid siege to Vidin, which eventually fell following a prolonged resistance.
Following the murder of Sultan Hairun at the hands of the Europeans, the Ternateans expelled the hated foreigners in 1575 after a five-year siege.
Following the English success at the siege of Melun, a town southeast of Paris, the contingent of Scots were hanged for treason against their king.
Following the siege, Edward had much of the relics, records and treasure removed from the castle to England.
Following this, Athens places Potidaea, a tributary ally of Athens but a colony of Corinth, under siege.
Following the siege of Avaricum in the winter of 52 BC, Julius Caesar's forces destroyed the city and killed all but 800 of its inhabitants.
Following a 14-month siege, the city fell to the Vandals and King Geiseric made it the capital of the Vandal kingdom until the capture of Carthage in 439.
: Following the then president, Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 Coup d ' état, Seine-Inférieure was one of several departments placed under a state of emergency ( literally, in French, state of siege ) following fears of significant resistance to the new government.
Following the battle between Marcellus and the king of the Gauls, the outnumbered Romans broke the siege of Clastidium, won the battle and proceeded to push the Gallic army all the way back to their primary headquarters of Mediolanum.
Following the Spanish capture of Amiens in March 1597 the French crown laid siege until its surrender in September.
Following the battle, the allied regiments stood down and returned to their siege positions.
Following his death as Henry III tried to bring order to the country the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln, its rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France ( later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave.
Following the surrender of the garrison on April 29, 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo.
Following the murder of Buenos Aires Police Chief Alberto Villar ( one of López Rega's closest collaborators in the Triple A ) and his wife, as well as amid increasing activity by the ERP in the Province of Tucumán, Perón was persuaded to declare a state of siege on November 6 ( suspending, among other rights, Habeas Corpus ).
Following a nine month siege, Cheng captured the Dutch fortress Fort Zeelandia.
Following this defeat in battle, Demosthenes suggested that the Athenians immediately give up the siege of Syracuse and return to Athens, where they were needed to defend against an Alcibiades ’ inspired Spartan invasion of Attica.
Following the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the rebels followed the British back to Boston and started the siege of the city.
Following a prolonged siege at the Battle of Nineveh, Nabopolassar took control of Nineveh.
Following the siege of Namhansanseong, King Injo of Joseon had to surrender and was forced to accept vassal status to the Manchu Empire in 1636.
Following the murder of Sultan Hairun at the hands of the Europeans, the Ternateans expelled the hated foreigners in 1575 after a five-year siege.

Following and five
Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.
Following the war, Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years ( 1936 – 41 ), before eventually being driven out during World War II by British Empire and Ethiopian patriot forces.
Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).
Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.
Following the 1926 Stanley Cup playoffs, during which the Western Hockey League was widely reported to be on the verge of folding, the NHL held a meeting on April 17 to consider applications for expansion franchises, at which it was reported that five different groups sought a team for Detroit.
Following are his five axioms, somewhat paraphrased to make the English easier to read.
Following every House of Keys general election, the members of Tynwald elect from amongst themselves the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, who serves as the head of government for five years ( until the next general election ).
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the five provinces that comprise modern Lebanon were mandated to France.
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the League of Nations mandated the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to the direct control of France.
Following that, Muslims adjourn for the Maghrib prayer, the fourth of the five daily prayers, after which the main meal is served.
Following this period, there were five paths of development that sprang forth in the Social Sciences, influenced by Comte on other fields.
Following the 23 October 1991 Final Act of the International Paris Conference on Cambodia among the Cambodian parties, Indonesia ( as co-chair with France ), and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Japan promptly established diplomatic relations and ended economic restrictions with Cambodia and Vietnam.
Following his " Indian Summer ", Grace was the sole recipient of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year award for 1896, the first of only three times that Wisden has restricted the award to a single player, there being normally five recipients.
** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.
Following the incident, The Sunday Age disclosed the names, or the assumed names, of five of the officers involved.
Following the 2011 season, Major League Baseball announced its plan to move the Houston Astros from the NL Central to the AL West for the 2013 season, resulting in both leagues having three divisions of five teams each and allowing all teams to have a more balanced schedule.
Following his retirement from the IDF he became ambassador to the United States beginning in 1968, serving for five years.
Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.
Following the Esperanza Fire ( Cabazon, 2006 ) that resulted in the deaths of five Forest Service employees, several wildland firefighters began to try to locate the family members and written record of former Tribal Member Frank Rios who was killed in a wildfire in October 1967 in the same area, so that his story can be told and remembered, and that his family can be properly honored for their service and their loss.
Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively.
Following the season's conclusion St. Paul, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and Lincoln announced they were leaving the league to form a new independent league with five teams from the folded Central Baseball League in the southern United States ; the new league was to be known as the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
Following the drafting of the talented center Andre Drummond, the new direction of rebuilding with young draft picks was never more obvious, with five rookies on the roster set for the 2012-13 NBA season.
Following their victory over the Flames, the Canucks then went on to defeat both the Dallas Stars and Toronto Maple Leafs ( both in five games ) en route to the franchise's second Stanley Cup Finals appearance.

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