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aftermath and battle
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.
In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Herodotus says that the Persian fleet sailed around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly.
In the aftermath of the battle, Otto retreated to his castle of Harzburg and was soon overthrown as Holy Roman Emperor, and replaced by Frederick II.
In the aftermath of this battle, Philip Augustus founded between Senlis and the Bishop Mount, Abbey of Victoire-which will be integrated into the domain of the Bishop of Senlis in 1486.
In the aftermath of the battle, Iron Man presents Captain with his reforged shield now stronger for its uru-infused enhancements despite the scar it bears.
At the conclusion of Second Coming Professor X is seen surveying the aftermath of the battle from a helicopter.
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 battle, the rebellion of Postumus had already started, therefore Gallienus had no time to deal with the rest of the usurpers, namely Ballista and Quietus.
In the aftermath of the battle, Otto retreated to his castle of Harzburg and was soon overthrown as Holy Roman Emperor, and replaced by Frederick II.
* Origins of the conflict, the battle itself and its aftermath BBC History website
The result was a great Roman victory which, combined with the effective pursuit of the invaders in the aftermath of the battle and the energetic efforts of the Emperor Aurelian, largely removed the threat from Germanic tribes in the Balkan frontier for the following decades.
In the aftermath of the battle, they had fled with many adventures with brigands and outlaws into Cheshire and subsequently to Harlech Castle in North Wales, where they joined Lancastrian nobles ( including Henry's half-brother Jasper Tudor and the Duke of Exeter ) who were recruiting armies in Wales and the West Country.
* The 2011 historical fiction novel, The Battle of the Crater by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, tells the story of the battle and the events that lead up to it, as well as the aftermath.
B. Campbell, in an article published in the journal Sociological Theory, has described the Nanking Massacre as a genocide considering the fact that the residents were still unilaterally killed in masses during the aftermath, despite the successful and certain outcome in battle.
Contains some discussion of the aftermath and consequences of the battle.
According to Gildas, the consequences of Badon had been to halt Anglo-Saxon expansion up to the time of his writing, but the battle and its aftermath had not restored the Britons to their earlier prominence.
The siege was broken off due to the start of the tropical rainy season, after weeks of intense fighting in which the British landing party was successfully repelled by the Spanish and native forces led by commander General Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741, death in aftermath of the Cartagena battle ), a Basque from the Gipuzkoa lands of Spain.
This battle and its aftermath portrayed the strengths and weaknesses in Essex's military mindset.
Other sources suggest that Eustace was present with William at the Malfosse incident in the immediate aftermath of the battle, where a Saxon feigning death leapt up and attacked him, and was presumably cut down before he could reach William.
In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continued to be revenged ( Kerenyi, 114 ): " But the goddess again made a great stir of anger and crying battle, over the head of the boar and the bristling boar's hide, between Kouretes and the high-hearted Aitolians " ( Homer, Iliad, ix. 543 ).
Yet in the aftermath of the second battle, Antigonus managed to capture the family and riches of the Silvershields, an elite regiment within Eumenes ' army, who in turn handed over Eumenes to Antigonus in return for their release.
The nearby Donnington Castle was reduced to a ruin in the aftermath of the second battle.
* Plainsboro is mentioned in the description of the battle area in Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast, The War of the Worlds, when the radio announcer describes the aftermath of the purported Martian invasion at nearby Grover's Mill.
In the aftermath of this battle, John of Aviz became the uncontested King of Portugal.

aftermath and Actium
In the aftermath of the Battle of Actium ( 31 BC ), Marcus Agrippa built and dedicated the original Pantheon during his third consulship ( 27 BC ).

aftermath and Gulf
Although Oman enjoys a high degree of internal stability, regional tensions in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and the Iran-Iraq war continue to necessitate large defense expenditures.
In the immediate aftermath of the 11 September attacks, Navy SEALs quickly dispatched to Camp Doha, and those already aboard US Naval vessels in the Persian Gulf and surrounding waters began conducting VBSS operations against ships suspected of having ties to or even carrying al Qaeda operatives.
In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there were reports in the press that BP was considering rebranding itself as Amoco.
This was primarily the result of a reduction in demand for travel caused by the recession of the early 1990s, as well as by public fear of traveling in the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
According to Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain, the blaze scorched several thousand acres and was propelled by past drought conditions combined with high winds coming from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Lee in the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2005, the company was retained by officials in Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide drinking water to Hurricane Katrina victims and to establish water remediation needed in the aftermath of the storm along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This incident, with its high death toll, highlighted dramatically the complexities in dealing with Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War.
United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was an inspection regime created with the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 in April 1991 to oversee Iraq's compliance with the destruction of Iraqi chemical, biological, and missile weapons facilities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency ’ s efforts to eliminate nuclear weapon facilities all in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations by the United States and some of its Gulf War allies, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and deliver humanitarian aid to them.
Several pieces were looted from the National Museum in the aftermath of the Second Gulf War in 2003.
Audubon was instrumental in bird rescue and Gulf Coast wetlands recovery efforts in the aftermath of the April 20, 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
In September 2005, the CHP sent its two Mobile Field Forces ( highly trained and equipped quick reaction / deployment teams for civil disturbances and / or disasters ) to the Gulf Coast to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Brigade was deployed on a non-combat task in northern Iraq.
Units rushed to provide aid and rescue service to the residents of Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the traumatic and prolonged 1995 hurricane season.
In addition, it controlled the Operation Provide Comfort airlift missions to the Kurds following the Persian Gulf War, the Operation Provide Hope airlift in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and participated in Operation Restore Hope, the humanitarian airlift of food and supplies into Somalia.
During the aftermath of the Gulf War, President Bush's approval ratings were extremely high.
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, Bush seemed unbeatable but a small economic recession spurred the Democrats on.
In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, the coalition's victory in the Gulf War opened a new opportunity to advance the peace process.
However, statesman Strobe Talbott wrote of the new world order that it was only in the aftermath of the Gulf War that the United Nations took a step toward redefining its role to take account of both interstate relations and intrastate events.
Virtually devoid of commentary, the imagery concentrates on the aftermath of the first Gulf War — specifically on the Kuwaiti oil fires, although no relevant political or geographical information is mentioned.
Cooper often anchors the program from the site of a major news story, such as his extensive coverage from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spill, as well as Port-au-Prince after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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