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Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
Following a siege of five months with brutal encounters, Rhodes capitulated and Suleiman allowed the Knights of Rhodes to depart.
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 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 Edward
Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...
Following the death of King Edward IV, he was made Lord Protector of England.
Following the etymology, the inventor, Edward Fredkin, pronounces it " tree ".
** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.
Following a four year hiatus from cinema, Aniston returned to film work in 1996, when she played supporting roles in the independent films Dream for an Insomniac, and She's the One, alongside Edward Burns and Cameron Diaz.
Following Sweyn's seizure of the throne in 1013, Emma fled to Normandy, followed by Edward and Alfred, and then by Æthelred.
Following Harthacnut's death on 8 June 1042, Godwin, the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne.
Following that, he and Taylor had a great success in Mike Nichols's film ( 1966 ) of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, in which a bitter erudite couple spend the evening trading vicious barbs in front of their horrified and fascinated guests, played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis.
Following the reversion of the Earldom of Chester to the crown, in 1254 Henry III passed the Lordship of Chester ( but not the title of Earl ) to his son Edward, who as Edward I bestowed the Earldom of Chester on his son Edward when he created him the first Prince of Wales in 1301.
Following her husband's temporary fall from power, Elizabeth had sought sanctuary in Westminster Abbey, where she gave birth to a son, Edward ( later Edward V of England ).
Following Edward's sudden death, possibly from pneumonia, in April 1483, Elizabeth briefly became Queen Mother as her son, Edward became king, with his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester acting as Lord Protector.
Following his father's death and the accession of his elder brother, Edward, to the throne, George was created Duke of Clarence in 1461 and invested as a Knight of the Garter.
Following the success of Portobelo, Vernon decided to try to Cartagena de Indias, considered both by him and by the governor of Jamaica Edward Trelawny a priority.
Following his victory in the 1970 election ( and helped by de Gaulle's fall from power in 1969 ), the new prime minister Edward Heath negotiated Britain ’ s admission to the EC, alongside Denmark and Ireland in 1973.
Following Wilson's unexpected defeat by Edward Heath in the 1970 General Election, Callaghan declined to challenge him for the leadership despite Wilson's vulnerability.
Following his death in 1766 he was succeeded by his son Charles Edward Stuart in the Jacobite Succession.
Following Jasper Tudor's attainder, Sir William Herbert, a zealous Yorkist, was raised to the peerage as Baron Herbert by Edward IV.
Following the return of the Yorkist king Edward IV from temporary exile in 1471, Jasper took the teenage Henry with him into exile, this time in Brittany.
Following an incident in June 1864, in which Meade disciplined reporter Edward Cropsey from The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper for an unfavorable article, all of the press assigned to his army agreed to mention Meade only in conjunction with setbacks.
Following Leland's death or ( more probably ) his descent into madness, King Edward VI arranged for Leland's library ( including many medieval manuscripts ) to be placed in the custody of Sir John Cheke.
Following his death in 1871 his wife inherited the estate and considerably developed it until her own death in 1904 when it was left to her nephew Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

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