Having gone to Leyden seeking subscribers, Jacob met Anton Hulsius with whom he helped in his studies.

Having failed to interest the Italian government, the 22-year-old inventor brought his telegraphy system to Britain and met William Preece, a Welshman, who was a major figure in the field and Chief Engineer of the General Post Office.

Having met with no success farming, the Grants left the St. Louis farm when their fourth and final child was born in 1858.

Having met face to face, Hanna and McCauley share a mutual respect, but readily admit that neither will hesitate to kill the other if the circumstances demand it.

Having a heavy interest in the race cars and their designers, Tucker met Harry Miller, maker of more Indianapolis 500-winning engines than any other during this period.

Having desired a meeting with Adolf Hitler since June 1940, Leopold III finally met with him on 19 November 1940.

Having heard of Sweyn's defeat by Magnus, Harald met up with his fellow exile in Sweden ( who was also his nephew ), as well as with the Swedish king Anund Jacob, and the three joined forces against Magnus.

Having laid waste to much of the south east of England he was met by Edgar Aetheling ( the English heir to the throne ), the Archbishop Aldred, the Earl Edwin and the Earl Morcar.

Having coincidentally also met popular singer Rudy Vallée on the cruise ship, Lucy arranges an audition for Ricky who is hired to be in Vallée's orchestra thus allowing him to immigrate to the United States on the very ship on which Lucy and the Mertzes were returning.

Having met director John Huston while she was living in London, Morath worked on several of his films.

Having met the International Brigades at Albacete.

Having been a favourite of King George II since her childhood, she was invited to appear at court and there caught the eye of George, Prince of Wales ( the future King George III ), whom she had met as a child.

Having first met the band when asked by ITV to look after their visit on Coronation Street ( he also worked on Emmerdale ) St. Paul wrote the script specifically with the band in mind.

Having developed the prototype of the receiver by December, Zworykin met David Sarnoff, who eventually hired him and put him in charge of television development for RCA at their newly established laboratories in Camden, New Jersey.

Having met Hayes at a reception following a Buckeye win over Iowa in 1957, Nixon recalled, " I wanted to talk about football and Woody wanted to talk about foreign policy.

Having returned to England, he entered the new parliament, which met early in 1679, as member for Wootton Bassett ; in November 1679 he was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, and for a few years he was the principal adviser of Charles II.

Having met Jugo, Orochimaru's research of the youth's ability to freely transform parts of his body led him to Ryūchi Cave where he gained the ability to assume Sage Mode yet could not properly use it due to the frailty of his hosts.

Having met Bill Oakshott ( the nominal owner of Ashenden Manor, but under the thumb of his uncle Sir Aylmer ) on the train, he contrives to get invited to the house — under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank.

Having access to military training and equipment, the troops were able to overcome most of the little resistance they initially met.

Having lived for a time in Germany, where he studied at the Lutheran University he met Martin Luther and other early Protestant reformers in Wittenberg.

Having played on many sessions with drummer Jeff Porcaro ( the son of noted session percussionist Joe Porcaro ), whom he met while attending Grant High School in North Hollywood, California where they formed the band Rural Still Life, the two began to seriously discuss the possibility of forming their own band.

Having been brought to Guantanamo from black sites, the new prisoners were accorded a new series of Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an " enemy combatant ".

Having obtained her baccalauréat in 1943 before being deported, she began the study of law and political science at Sciences Po and at the University of Paris, where she met her future husband Antoine Veil.

Having met his demise in the climax of the film, his character is revealed to have been resurrected at the end of Dead Man's Chest, becoming a supporting protagonist in At World's End.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Having achieved a breakthrough into the enemy's rear areas, German forces attempted to paralyze the enemy's ability to react.

Having seized the Merv ( now Mary ) Oasis by 1884, Russian forces were directly adjacent to Afghanistan.

Having defeated the Ethiopian forces in Eritrea, EPLF troops took control of their homeland.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

Having regained the south-east John split his forces, sending William Longespée to retake the north of side of London and East Anglia, whilst John himself headed north via Nottingham to attack the estates of the northern barons.

Having been the first major city in Greece to fall to the occupying forces just two days after the German invasion, it was in Thessaloniki that the first Greek resistance group was formed ( under the name « Ελευθερία », Eleftheria, " Freedom ") as well as the first anti-Nazi newspaper in an occupied territory anywhere in Europe, also by the name Eleftheria.

* Having rebuffed the armed forces of Conrad IV of Germany, Pope Innocent IV offers Sicily to Edmund, son of King Henry III of England.

Having lost any hope for victory and facing a massacre, the French army disengaged and retreated in a westerly direction, hoping to join other French forces on the other side of the Vosges mountains.

Having won the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks disbanded the tsarist police forces and formed all-proletarian Workers ' and Peasants ' Militsiya under NKVD of the Russian SFSR.

Having learnt from the heavy casualties inflicted upon the airborne formations in Operation Market, the two airborne divisions were dropped several thousand yards forward of friendly positions, and only some thirteen hours after Operation Plunder had begun and Allied ground forces had already crossed the Rhine.

* Having recovered the central part of Anatolia from the usurper Achaeus, Antiochus III turns his forces to recover the outlying provinces to the north and east of the Seleucid kingdom.

Having become Sirdar of the Egyptian Army in 1892-with the rank of brigadier-general and then major-general in the British Army — in 1896 he led his British and Egyptian forces up the Nile, building a railway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, near Khartoum.

Having gained another victory in 542, this time, avoiding stoutly defended Florence, in the valley of Mugello, where Totila showed his nature by treating his prisoners so well that they were induced to serve under his banner, he left a well-defended Tuscany with his enlarged forces, while three of the Byzantine generals withdrew from Florence, dividing their forces, to Perugia, Spoleto, and Rome, cities which Totila would have to take by siege.

Having legal systems, police forces, monetary systems, customs policies, immigration policies, national sports teams, official languages, postal systems, academic and educational systems, and certain degrees of international representation that are different or independent from the People's Republic of China, makes their status almost equivalent to independent nations in many respects.

Having strengthened his forces, he marched towards Lucera to join the Saracen troops settled there since the time of his grandfather.

Having marched north, taking Bolton and Liverpool along the way in two bloody assaults, Rupert then intervened in Yorkshire in two highly effective manoeuvres, in the first outwitting the enemy forces at Newark with speed ; in the second, striking across country and approaching York from the north.

Having begun to push back the feeble French forces from Marmont's VI's Corps the day before, Blücher occupied Champaubert early on 14 February, sending his vanguard forward, as far as the village of Fromentières and then Vauchamps.

Having begun his literary career as an internationalist, Unamuno gradually became convinced of the universal values of Spanish culture, feeling that Spain's essential qualities would be destroyed if influenced too much by outside forces.

Having dislodged his early revolutionary and strictly anti-militarist views in favor of social corporatism, class collaboration and a reformist agenda involving few nationalizations but stable armed forces in order to secure neutrality, Hansson reluctantly agreed to a single-party government but dropped dead from a heart attack in Stockholm on 6 October 1946 while stepping off a tram at the Ålstens Gård station.

Having recuperated on Corfu the Serbian Army returned to combat on the Thessaloniki front together with other Entente forces.

Having a low regard for the Greek Army's military effectiveness, the Bulgarian leadership estimated that, according to the military plans, their limited forces that had been deployed to the Macedonian theatre would be able to occupy the larger part of the region and the important port city of Thessaloniki before the Greeks.