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

Having already lost the presidential contest, Federalist Party Representatives in the lame duck House session seized upon the opportunity to embarrass their opposition and attempted to elect Burr over Jefferson.

Having released John Ball from his prison at Maidstone, the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth ; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself.

Having had the dolls seized by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise officers, David Sullivan's Conegate Ltd. took the case all the way to the European Court of Justice, and won in 1987.

Having entered a library which was said to contain many Eastern manuscripts, without having the place aired, he was seized with Batavian fever ( possibly malaria or dengue ) and died, after three days ' illness, on 28 August 1811.

Having seized Emesa, the Muslims were just a march away from Aleppo, a Byzantine stronghold, and Antioch, where Heraclius resided.

Having taken back control of his order from Thierry, he seems to have seized the remainder of Henry II's money which had been left with the Templars in Tyre.

Having seized the Suez Canal, he then disembarked his troops at Ismailia and, after a very short campaign, completely defeated Urabi Pasha at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, thereby suppressing yet another rebellion.

Having seized power with the help of the Czech Legion, Komuch announced " reinstatement " of democratic freedoms: they formally established an 8-hour working day, permitted worker's conferences and congresses of peasants, kept plant and factory committees ( fabzavkomy, or fabrichno-zavodskiye komitety ) and trade unions.

Having seized the book, however, Kirk and Spock figure out a way to bypass the Oracle's defenses and shut the machine down.

Having failed in an attempt to invade Bavaria with Torstensson he seized Rottweil, but was mortally wounded there on November 17, 1643.

Having incinerated the demons and seized the powers of the Malaiyaracar, Vaikundar exhorted the people as follows:

Having crossed the frontier on the morning of 7 August, the French quickly seized the border town of Altkirch with a bayonet charge.

Having seized this key place, the Baghvashi family used their to contest borders with the neighbouring principalities.

Having the deepest of maternal instincts, my heart fairly bled when I thought of the darling pink and white `` bundles from heaven '' I would have proudly given my husband.

Having arrived he blinked sleepily and friendlily at them, and lapsed back into the restful stupor from which he had emerged.

Having extorted a large sum of money from the citizens of Nuremberg, he quarrelled with his supporter, the French King, and offered his services to the Emperor.

Having effected a separation from England and its cultural icons, America was left without history -- or heroes on which to base a shared sense of their social selves.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

Having been defeated by his brother's armies, Cem sought protection from the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.

Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk.

Having lost their entire baggage and supplies, the Bastarnae were obliged to withdraw from Dardania and to return home.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Having digested these prior influences after he returned from his trip, Howard rewrote the rejected story " By This Axe I Rule!

Having partaken in such a rite, a person was prohibited from entering into marriage or taking monastic vows, and the choreography of the service itself closely parallelled that of the marriage rite.

Having recanted, they were obliged to sew yellow crosses onto their outdoor clothing and to live apart from other Catholics, at least for a while.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

Having both a family name and given name (" first name ", " forename ", or " Christian name ") is far from universal.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Having learned that he is undone, he rose quickly to pull Odin from the fire, but the sword which he had lain upon his knee slipped, fell hilt down, the king stumbled and impaled himself upon it.

Having gained thirty pounds since his Burrito days from Southern food and excessive alcohol consumption, it came as a surprise to many when Parsons was enthusiastically signed to Reprise Records by Mo Ostin in mid-1972.

The constitution enshrined in law the idea of autarky and prohibited the government from seeking financial aid or credits or from forming joint companies with partners from capitalist or communist countries perceived to be " revisionist " ( Having changed the original doctrines of Marx, Lenin and Stalin ).

Having decided upon seven colors, he asked a friend to repeatedly divide up the spectrum that was projected from the prism onto the wall:

Having succeeded in defeating their foes, the majority of the Gauls returned to their homelands but retained an occupation force and colonial settlements throughout the Greek world.

Not only did men billeted in Greek areas have opportunity to learn sufficient Greek for the purpose of everyday conversation, but they were also able to see plays in the foreign tongue .” Having an audience with knowledge of the Greek language, whether limited or more expanded, allowed Plautus more freedom to use Greek references and words.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

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 purchased the Achilleion in 1907 after Sissi's death, he appointed Carl Ludwig Sprenger as the botanical architect of the Palace, and also built a bridge to be named by the locals after him: " Kaiser's bridge " ( Greek: η γέφυρα του Κάιζερ transliterated as: i yefyra tou Kaizer ), to access the beach without traversing the road forming the island's main artery to the south.

Having had a demonstration of his power the previous year, the majority of Greek cities duly obliged.

Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BCE, it flowered during the 5th century BCE ( from the end of which it began to spread throughout the Greek world ), and continued to be popular until the beginning of the Hellenistic period.

* Having successfully captured several of the revolting Greek city-states, the Persians under Artaphernes lay siege to Miletus.

Having taught himself Latin and Greek, he studied law under Arnaud du Ferrièr, then professor at Toulouse, and rapidly gained a great reputation as a lecturer on Justinian.

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.

Having successfully repelled the external threat to his control of Greece, the main danger to the power of Antigonus lay in the Greek love of liberty.

Having had a demonstration of his power the previous year, the majority of Greek cities duly obliged.

Having successfully captured several of the revolting Greek city-states, the Persians under Artaphernes lay siege to Miletus.

Having fallen severely ill in 1886, he spent his final years editing historical documents of the Eudoxiu Hurmuzaki fund, publicizing Ancient Greek and Roman archeological finds in Northern Dobruja, and collecting foreign documents related to Romanian history.

Having exhibited her interest in languages, she had also studied Latin, Greek, and German, and minored " in a great many other things.

Having dealt harshly and effectively with his disloyal Bulgarian vassals, Bayezid then turned his attention south to Thessaly and the Morea, whose Greek lords had accepted Ottoman vassalage in the 1380s.

Having won two large contracts ( National Regional Plan for Greece and Master Plan for Athens ) from the Greek Junta he was criticised by competitors, after its fall in 1974, portrayed as a friend of the colonels.

Having less than 1 % market share and making nothing but losses, there were talks about closing it down, but the final decision was delayed several times and Cosmorom's future was uncertain due to disagreement between OTE ( the Greek telecoms ex-monopoly that also owns the majority stake in Romtelecom ) and the Romanian government.

Having lost his property through a dishonest agent, he emigrated to the United States in 1831 and for the following eight years taught Latin and Greek at a private school in New York City.

Having devoted several years to classical studies during a residence in Italy, he was invited to Paris in 1550 to fill the professorship of Latin in the Collège de France, which he soon afterwards exchanged for that of Greek.

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.