Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.

Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

Initially Wade's government had the support of a broad section of groups opposed to the socialist government, but gradually individual parties have disassociated themselves from the government and joined the opposition efforts led by PS.

Initially a " rancho carnavalesco ", then a Carnival's Block, and finally a samba school, the Deixa Falar was the first to Rio Carnival parade in the sound of an orchestra made up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and shakers.

Initially trained as an apostolic notary, he joined the Roman Curia in 1491 and in 1493 Pope Alexander VI appointed him Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano.

Initially there was much confusion among republicans on the ground, Martin McGuinness for example, joined the Official IRA in 1970, unaware that there had been a split and only later joined the Provisionals.

Initially, a volunteer project, the library became its own department and joined the Dallas County Library System shortly after WWII.

Initially known as " Front des Petits Peuples " from 1946 to 1960, the group later took the designation " Front de Libération des Hauts plateaux " and joined, with the FLC, the " Front unifié pour la Libération des Races opprimées " ( FULRO ) at some point in the 1960s.

Initially it was developed by Alexey Nadezhin ( by whose name the system is named ) and later also by Sergey Kamnev, who joined the project.

Initially, this army was composed primarily of volunteers and Tsarist supporters but were later joined by the Cossacks ( including Don Kalmyks ), many of whom resisted the Bolshevik policy of de-Cossackization.

Initially the Catholic Church tolerated the Flagellants and individual monks and priests joined in the early movements.

Initially light cavalry companies formed by Polish Tatars ( the very word ulan came from Lithuanian Tartar surname that might have come from an honorific name for a young, skilled warrior known as oglan ) for one of the magantes, Sapieha, the uhlans joined the forces of Augustus der Starke, the king of Poland-Lithuania-Saxony, and in early 1740s 18th century the first uhlan ' pulks ' ( regiments )-known as uhlans-were formed for his son, king Augustus III.

Initially gains were made from the ranks of the reformist workers organisations and in late 1920 a left opposition from the PPS, led by Stanislaw Lancucki and Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki, joined giving the party representation in the Diet.

Initially working alone, he was later joined in the studio by ex-The Stairs frontman Edgar Summertyme, Lee Garnett and Neil Mavers.

Initially a member of the Free Soil Party, he joined the Republican Party shortly after its founding, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1852 ), and the Massachusetts Senate ( 1857 ).

Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996.

Initially, in 1867, it joined the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Hyde Junction, running into Manchester London Road, but in 1875 a more direct route was built through Bredbury.

Initially, he joined the Swaraj Party, a group within the Indian National Congress, and became an ardent follower of Chittaranjan Das.

Initially, Reform BC, the Social Credit, the British Columbia Party, and the Family Coalition Party had joined under the " BC Unity " umbrella.

Initially involved with The Kids in the Hall film Brain Candy project, he left the troupe in the middle of the writing, dissatisfied with the internal strife and the quality of the script, and joined the NewsRadio cast instead.

Initially, ' TRIUMF ' stood for TRI-University Meson Facility, but after the University of Alberta joined the TRIUMF consortium, the acronym was dropped and is no longer used.

Initially an inside forward, Hunter was moulded by Leeds into a central defender who made the No. 6 shirt his own in 14 years with the club he joined at the age of 15, giving up a job as an electrical fitter in the process.

Initially a pseudo-rival to Samantha for Dave ( she always wore sunglasses ala Dave, shedding them only when she got married ), she was eventually accepted into the group and joined everyone at Havens University as a creative film major.

Initially pagan, the Goths were in the 4th century converted to Arian Christianity by the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible.

Initially, it was used to play-test an early version of what came to be The Dark Eye 4th edition rules.

Initially the division was deployed without armoured support, however, in December 1944, ' B ' Squadron, 2 / 4th Armoured Regiment, equipped with Matilda II tanks, arrived and subsequently took part in operations on the island attached to elements of the division.

Initially, the ARS lamp designs imitated the simple design of third to 4th century courseware lamps, often with globules on the shoulder or with fluted walls.

Initially underestimating the Polish advance, on 11 September the Germans soon decided to redirect the main force of the German 10th Army, the German 4th Army, the reserves of the Army Group South, and aircraft from 4th Air Fleet towards the Bzura.

Initially a Know-Nothing, and later a Democrat, he served as mayor of Baltimore ( 1856 – 1860 ), as the 33rd Governor of Maryland ( 1866 – 1869 ), and as U. S. Representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district and then 4th congressional district ( 1869 – 1879 ).

Initially formed of seven battalions ( four regular and three Territorial Army ), the regiment was reduced in 1975 with the loss of the 4th ( Leicestershire ) Battalion to three regular battalions and three TA.

Initially they were opposed by the Russian 4th and 5th armies respectively.

Initially, he served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment and being assigned to the 7th ( Light Infantry ) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division.

Initially posted to 77th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Manhattan Beach, California, Hackworth was eventually assigned to Germany, initially in staff roles but returning to infantry in the early 1960s as an Infantry company commander under Colonel Glover S. Johns, and learned a great deal of the skills that were needed to be an effective officer from this veteran.

Initially attached to the 3rd company of the General Somoza Combat Battalion and headquartered at Tiscapa Hill just outside Managua, the EEBI was an indigenous Special Forces training center modelled after Fort Bragg, and was tasked of training the Guardia ’ s own elite anti-guerrilla ' Commandos ', the ‘ Black Berets ’.

Initially, the regiment consisted of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion ( National Reserve ); however, the increasing array of tasks that the regiment was called upon to perform led to it being stretched.

Initially admitted to the 10th Australian Field Ambulance, he was transferred to the 40th Casualty Clearing Station six days later, before returning to the 40th Battalion on 24 June.

Initially, Bravo Group consisted of two infantry companies, a mortar platoon, an anti-tank section and a machine gun platoon, but 32 Battalion was expanded to 6 infantry companies, a recce wing, and a support company consisting of 81 mm mortar, anti-tank and machine gun sections.

Initially located in the salient were the 10th Panzer Division, Waffen-SS Division Das Reich, 268th Infantry Division, and the 202nd Assault Gun Battalion among others ;

Initially only limited Australian forces were available to oppose them, and after making rapid progress the Japanese South Seas Force under Major General Tomitaro Horii clashed with under strength Australian forces from the Papuan Infantry Battalion and the Australian 39th Battalion on 23 July at Awala, forcing them back to Kokoda.

Initially they had been destined to join the rest of the 2nd New Zealand Division in the Middle East, but due to concerns about a possible invasion of the United Kingdom by the German Wehrmacht, the decision was made to divert the division's second echelon, a brigade-sized force that included the 28th ( Māori ) Battalion, to Britain to help bolster the island's defences.

Initially, each brigade of the Guards Division had a machine gun company attached.