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In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Herodotus says that the Persian fleet sailed around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly.
The soldiers were killed either during the attack or in its immediate aftermath.
The aftermath of the war saw sweeping changes in the Indian military to prepare it for similar conflicts in the future, and placed pressure on Nehru, who was seen as responsible for failing to anticipate the Chinese attack on India.
However, in the aftermath, Donny ( Buscemi ), a member of Walter and The Dude's bowling team, has a heart attack and dies.
If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we ’ ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy .” Franks then offered “ in a practical sense ” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.
In the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear attack, " as a source of help or comfort he doctor is little better equipped than the nearest survivor.
Upon the advice of his doctor Samuel Habershon in the aftermath of an attack of facial neuralgia, Gladstone stayed at Cannes from the end of November 1897 to mid-February 1898.
Made in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain.
On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U. S. armed forces could restore public order and enforce laws in the aftermath of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition.
Several people were arrested in the aftermath of the attack, and were reported to be members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a large insurgent organisation.
In the aftermath of the commissioner's attack, Joe Pi from Precinct 9 is transferred to replace Girl One.
In the aftermath of Cornerstone magazine's 1992 exposure of popular Christian comedian Mike Warnke, who had claimed falsely to be an ex-Satanic priest, in 1994 " a certain journalist speculated that Larry probably hadn't been in an airplane accident in 1978, and inferred that he also probably hadn't really suffered a serious heart attack.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Cabinet Marijnen, Cals became Prime Minister of the Netherlands from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966, the Cabinet Cals was suddenly brought down in an attack on its budget, known as the " Night of Schmelzer ".
The 37th Pursuit Group at Albrook Field replaced the P-40 Warhawks of the 28th Pursuit Squadron at the Paitilla Point airbase from 9 December 1941 though 26 March 1942 in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack.
According to the government, the move is aimed at preventing further communal violence in the aftermath of the attack.
In the aftermath, Frick was shot in the neck and then stabbed by Alexander Berkman, surviving the attack, while Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Nemo is devoted to his crew and grieves deeply when one of them happens to be killed, as is portrayed in the aftermath of the giant-squid attack in the Bahamas and the mysterious midnight encounter with a surface ship.
* August 6-BBC withdraws a planned airing of The War Game on BBC1's Wednesday Play anthology series ; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as " too horrifying " to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning.
In the aftermath the surviving sailors were told to keep quiet about the attack.
Each episode begins with a death – anything from drowning or heart attack to sudden infant death syndrome – and that death usually sets the tone for each episode, allowing the characters to reflect on their current fortunes and misfortunes in a way that is illuminated by the death and its aftermath.
As acting governor in 1770 he exposed himself to mob attack in the aftermath of the Boston massacre, after which he ordered the removal of troops from Boston to Castle William.
As America struggles to cope with the aftermath of the attack dubbed as the " Information Crisis " by the media, Fisher infiltrates the CIA headquarters and accesses the CIA computer mainframe, allowing Grimsdottir to trace the location of the data leak to the personal computer of Mitchell Dougherty, and Fisher is ordered to bring him in for interrogation.
From 2005 – 2007, Bagge worked on Apocalypse Nerd, a comic published by Dark Horse Comics about two average, urban males dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the Pacific Northwest.
The aftermath of the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack

aftermath and were
In the aftermath, more than 2, 000 people were confirmed dead and more than 4, 000 children were orphaned or had lost one parent.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.
Ninety-eight attackers and just one defender died in the actual fighting, but in the aftermath, de Launay and seven other defenders were killed, as was the ' prévôt des marchands ' ( roughly, mayor ) Jacques de Flesselles.
Sometimes the soldiers are unable to immediately gauge the significance of the combat ; in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, some British officers were in doubt as to whether the day's events merited the title of " battle " or would be passed off as merely an " action ".
British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.
This is most likely due to their size, which meant they were less able to adapt during the aftermath of the extinction event.
As more and more of its demands were met during the 1990s – such as the direct popular election of Taiwan's president and all representatives in its Legislative Yuan, and open discussion of Taiwan's repressive past as represented in the 2-28 Incident and its long martial law aftermath – a greater variety of views could be advocated in the more liberal political atmosphere.
The various mixes were subtitled in terms of the expected aftermath of nuclear conflict.
Those led by Ferdinand von Schill were decimated in the Battle of Stralsund ( 1809 ); many were killed in battle or executed at Napoleon's command in the aftermath.
In the aftermath of the war, both states were financially and demographically exhausted.
Although many of his friends and relations were killed in the Civil War, Ashley survived to see its brutal aftermath.
About 1 million civilians were evacuated in the aftermath of the raids.
In the immediate aftermath of the General Assembly's vote on the Partition plan, the explosions of joy among the Jewish community were counterbalanced by the expression of discontent among the Arab community.
In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.
It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.
In the aftermath of Suharto's rise, hundreds of thousands of people were killed or imprisoned by the military and religious groups in a backlash against alleged communist supporters.
Among the first were the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, initiated in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and the future International Telegraph Union, which was founded by the signing of the International Telegraph Convention by 20 countries in May 1865.
In the aftermath of the Treaty of Fort Jackson and the Treaty of Washington, the Muscogee were confined to a small strip of land in present-day east central Alabama.
In the aftermath of the defeat of the British at the Battle of Isandlwana many Martini-Henry rifles were captured by the Zulus together with considerable amounts of ammunition.
The aftermath of the Battle of Culloden marked the beginning of the end for the clan system and whilst there were marked improvements in living standards for some, these transformations came at a cost for others.
In the aftermath of the earthquake that occurred off the Chilean coast on 27 February 2010, there were reports of damage and loss of life from a tsunami that hit the island.
His parents, Seweryn and Ludwika Malewicz, were ethnic Poles who had fled to Ukraine in the aftermath of the January Uprising of 1863 and he was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church.

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