Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

Following the German unconditional surrender, Eisenhower was appointed Military Governor of the U. S. Occupation Zone, based in Frankfurt am Main.

Following Japan's surrender, the Allies issued the Shinto Directive separating church and state within Japan, leading to the Humanity Declaration of the incumbent Emperor.

Following the unconditional surrender of Japan to Allied Powers after World War II, Taiwan was relinquished by Japan as a stolen territory from China ( like Manchukuo ) by the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951.

Following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, Japanese rule was brought to an end.

Following the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, civil administration of Papua as well as New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act, ( 1945 – 46 ), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.

* Following his surrender to Captain Frederick Maitland of off Rochefort in 1815, Napoleon was taken to Plymouth Sound where he remained on board, 26 July – 4 August, while his future was decided.

Following this disturbance, on 7 October the Governor instructed Coronaro to order the Sultan to surrender ; to intimidate the people he ordered the seizure of all merchant boats in the Alula area.

* July 2 – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.

* Following the surrender of Mytilene to Athens, the Athenian leader Cleon insists that the city be destroyed.

Following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of President Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender.

Following the Battle of Doaksville, Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Confederate commander of the Cherokee Nation, became the last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War, on 23 June 1865.

Following the League's supersession by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate to be replaced by a United Nations Trusteeship agreement, requiring closer international monitoring of the territory's administration.

Following this victory they received the surrender of York.

Following the Oct. 1945 Japanese surrender ceremonies in Taipei, the Republic of China, under the Kuomintang ( KMT ) became the governing polity on Taiwan during the period of military occupation.

Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, a significant example of Résistance strength was displayed, when the Corsican Résistance, with the assistance of the Free French, began a movement which liberated the island from General Albert Kesselring's remaining German forces.

Following the Spanish capture of Amiens in March 1597 the French crown laid siege until its surrender in September.

Following Germany's surrender and the end of the war, the governments of East Berlin and West Berlin restored it in a joint effort.

Following the Persian surrender, Shahrbaraz was heavily involved in the intrigues of the Sassanian court.

Following the surrender of Hong Kong, the 228th, 229th and 230th Infantry Regiments from the IJA 38th Division were also deployed to Netherlands East Indies separately.

Following the surrender, he said to other prisoners: " Don't worry.

Following Japan's surrender, Hirota was arrested as a Class A war criminal and brought before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies.

Following up the Rhine one comes to a town, Mattiacum, which must be at the border of the Roman Germany ( vicinity of Wiesbaden ).

Following World War II, Bonn was in the British zone of occupation, and in 1949 became the capital of West Germany.

Following German reunification in 1990, the city regained its status as the capital of Germany, hosting 147 foreign embassies.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Following the Unification of Germany, Otto von Bismarck rejected the British model.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany.

Following the war, many former German soldiers joined the Foreign Legion to pursue a military career with an elite unit, an option that was no longer possible in Germany.

Following Gibraltar's signing of 12 additional Tax Information Exchange Agreements ( TIEAs ), as of October 2009, with jurisdictions including the UK, US and Germany, to sum 13, Gibraltar is currently listed in the OECD " white list ", and is considered a jurisdiction that has substantially implemented the tax standard.

Following the Reichswehr purge of 1938, Hitler could be described as the absolute dictator of Germany until his suicide in 1945.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

Following the union of these two Franconian lines in 1618, the Kingdom of Prussia was created in 1701, eventually leading to the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871.

Following a brief occupation by Nazi Germany when the Nazis declared war on the Soviet Union, Lithuania was again absorbed into the Soviet Union for nearly 50 years.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, life in Munich became very difficult, as the Allied blockade of Germany led to food and fuel shortages.

Following the Spanish – American War of 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States and sold the remainder of the Marianas ( along with the Caroline Islands ) to Imperial Germany under the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899.

Following unification, Germany became one of the most powerful nations in Europe.

Following its defeat in the Spanish-American War, Spain sold Palau and most of the rest of the Caroline Islands to Germany in 1899.

Following the convictions, Hanns Martin Schleyer, a former officer of the SS and NSDAP member who was then President of the German Employers ' Association ( and thus one of the most powerful industrialists in West Germany ) was abducted in a violent kidnapping.

Following the defeat of Germany in World War I in November 1918, these states were abolished.

Following Hitler's assumption of power in Germany, the SS became regarded as a state organization and a branch of the established government.

Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Lwów came under the control of the Soviet Union for almost two years.

Following attendance at the Artillery Officer Advanced Course, he was assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany in 1973, where he commanded the 1st Squadron Howitzer Battery and served as Squadron S-3.