The Manchu allied with the Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui to seize Beijing, which was made the capital of the Qing dynasty, and then proceeded to subdue the remaining Ming's resistance in the south.

Odrade then confronts Sheeana, discovering that Duncan and Sheeana have been allied together for some time.

Osama bin Laden issued two fatwās — in 1996 and then again in 1998 — that Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries until they withdraw support for Israel and withdraw military forces from Islamic countries.

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and ( allied with the Directorate of Ukraine ) reached Kiev, but then the massive Bolshevik counteroffensive moved the Poles out of most of Ukraine and on the northern front arrived at the outskirts of Warsaw.

Antony then invaded Parthian territory with an army of about 100, 000 Roman and allied troops but the campaign proved a disaster.

However, since then, Masʻūd had allied himself with the powerful governor of Azerbaijan and Jibal, who in 1185 began moving his troops across the Zagros Mountains, causing Saladin to hesitate in his attacks.

Burgundy's insistence that the French army not attack led Marlborough once again to unite his army with Eugene's, allowing the allied army to crush the French at the Battle of Oudenarde, and then proceeded to capture Lille.

Himyar then allied with Saba ' and invaded the newly taken Aksumite territories, retaking Zafar, which had been under the control of GDRT's son BYGT, and pushing Aksum back into the Tihama.

Ostorius then moves against the Deceangli in north Wales, but is forced to abandon the campaign to deal with a revolt among the allied Brigantes.

The first operation he participated in was assisting the allied invasion of Lebanon, then held by Vichy French forces ( the same operation in which Moshe Dayan lost his eye ) in June – July 1941.

Llywelyn made an alliance with Philip II Augustus of France, then allied himself with the barons who were in rebellion against John, marching on Shrewsbury and capturing it without resistance in 1215.

The colonial powers, first Germany and then Belgium, allied with the Rwandan court, allowing it to conquer the remaining autonomous kingdoms along its borders and racializing the system of minority Tutsi dominance created under Rwabugiri.

He has beaten them in fair and unfair fights ; he has outmaneuvered them into hopelessness ; he has cajoled them to declaim their positions and accept his mastery ; he has appeased them, allied with them, and then absorbed them, leaving only Caesar standing alone, in the place an opponent was.

The allied ships then retreated from Russian waters.

In 1926, Stalin allied with Nikolai Bukharin who then led the campaign against " Trotskyism ".

The founder of this so-called Neo-Inca state was Manco Inca Yupanqui ( also known as Manco Cápac II ), who had initially allied himself with the Spanish, then led an unsuccessful war against them before establishing himself in Vilcabamba in 1540.

Since then, a fraction of dissident peronists allied with conservative PRO, Julio Cobos-through Federal Consensus ( ConFe )- started negotiations with his former party, UCR.

As Fox and Warners pressed forward with sound cinema in different directions, both technologically and commercially — Fox with newsreels and then scored dramas, Warners with talking features — so did ERPI, which sought to corner the market by signing up the five allied studios.

Albany fled to France, then England, where he allied himself with King Edward IV.

Eventually, in September 1818, Lawrence was able to make his postponed trip to the continent to paint the allied leaders, first at Aachen and then at the conference of Vienna, for what would become the Waterloo Chamber series, housed in Windsor Castle.

He set sail for Britain in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I in which Britain, then allied with France and Russia, went to war with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

After the departure of the Theban army the Spartans attempted to retake Messenia, which then allied itself with the Macedonians.

In ancient Greece, the symbolon, was a shard of pottery which was inscribed and then broken into two pieces which were given to the ambassadors from two allied city states as a record of the alliance.

In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.

Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.

in the cold dawn the mist swirled low to the ground, then rose with a gust of sudden wind to leave the valley clear.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

He would pick up the ringing phone with studied negligence, then bark into it with gruff importance.

Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.