Initially, Saladin attempted to organize his men into battle order, but as his bodyguards were being killed, he saw that defeat was inevitable and so with a small remnant of his troops mounted a swift camel, riding all the way to the territories of Egypt.

Initially states emerged over territories built by conquest in which one culture, one set of ideals and one set of laws have been imposed by force or threat over diverse nations by a civilian and military bureaucracy.

Initially dismissed by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as an inconsequential argument between monks, the idea of a religious reformation accentuated controversies and problems in many of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire, which became engulfed in the ensuing controversy.

Initially annexed by Poland in a series of wars between 1918 and 1921 ( primarily the Polish-Soviet War ), these territories had mixed urban national populations with Poles and Ukrainians being the most numerous ethnic groups, with significant minorities of Belarusians and Jews.

Initially the population of these overseas territories were made to exploit resources ( minerals, spices, wood or slaves ), but later there was a sense of evangelisation or lusotropolicalism, that facilitated the colonization of these lands.

Initially named the Reval Governorate after the city of Reval, today known as Tallinn, it was created in 1719 out of territories conquered from Sweden in the Great Northern War.

Initially conceived by the Prussian Finance Minister Hans, Count von Bülow, as a Prussian customs union in 1818, the Zollverein linked the many Prussian and Hohenzollern territories.

Initially performing under the name “ Country Boy Calhoun ”, he soon established himself as a feature attraction due to his mammoth size performing in various regional territories, including Houston, Kansas City, and even in Canada.

Initially another double album was planned, comprising live material from this tour plus new studio tracks, but a single album, Goodbye was released instead with three live tracks taken from their performance at The Forum in Los Angeles on 19 October 1968, and three studio tracks, one written by each of the band members.

Initially a duo from South London suburb of Mitcham comprising Robert Wratten and Michael Hiscock, their first EP, Emma's House, was released in November 1988, and reached number 20 in the UK Independent Chart.

Initially it was informal, but this was the origin of Pierce's Spacemen 3 ' splinter ' band, Spiritualized, comprising all the same members as Spacemen 3 except for Kember.

Initially released in Germany, in 1979 it was re-released as an LP, comprising the original six tracks, " Victims of the Riddle " A and B sides and three tracks that were previously unavailable on vinyl.

Initially, BEA operated its Tridents in a 79-seat, two-class configuration, comprising 15 first class and 64 tourist class seats.

Initially, the project was projected to cost $ 75 million and consisted of six 16-story buildings comprising 1, 400 apartment units, a 350-room hotel, office space, shops, 19 luxury " villas " ( townhouses ), and three-level underground parking for 1, 250 vehicles.

Initially development contracts were awarded to two groups of companies the Rheinstahl group ( Rheinstahl-Hanomag, Ruhrstahl, Witten-Annen, Büro Warnecke ) and the second group comprising Henschel Werke and the Swiss MOWAG company.

Initially comprising vocalist Zoy Nicoles, guitarist Lonny Knapp, bassist Tommy Skilton, drummer Ryan McCaffrey and bagpipe-playing brothers Robby and Sandy Campbell.

Initially we will import the thermoelectric materials and modules from France but later we will manufacture in this country.

Initially the source was Latin, later Gascon ( a branch of Occitan ) in the northeast, Navarro-Aragonese in the southeast and Spanish in the southwest.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

Initially, the victims ' corpses were buried in mass graves, but later were cremated.

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Eastern and Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class.

Initially calling their venture Dramatic Oil ( later renaming it Fuller Farm Oil ), the partners invested in a site along the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania, in late 1863 for drilling.

Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later.

Initially intended as a science tool, the kaleidoscope was later copied as a toy.

Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film ( e. g., opening and closing credits ), but later it was used for the entire film.

Initially seven individual, and later ' twenty persons were put to death for life and estate.

Initially brutish and overweight, the character later evolved into a sleeker, more athletic version of his old self.

Initially the ability of radiation and chemical mutagens to cause mutation was exploited to generate random mutations, later techniques were developed to introduce specific mutations.

Initially, MPEG-4 was aimed primarily at low bit-rate video communications ; however, its scope as a multimedia coding standard was later expanded.

Initially the NRW was to be based on the Motorola 88110 processor, but due to a lack of confidence in Motorola's commitment to the 88k architecture, it was later redesigned around dual PowerPC 601s.

Initially it is impossible to find any mention of specific bugs on Microsoft's website, but later he notices that Microsoft has instated a system similar to the Debian one, though sugar-coated so as to not ruin the vision demanded by its customers.

Initially two names were proposed: " Coral " and " Ruby ", with the latter being chosen by Matsumoto in a later email to Ishitsuka.

Initially, Foster adapted three episodes per book, but later editions saw the half-hour scripts expanded into full novel-length stories.

Initially these shutters were made from a cloth material ( which was in later years often rubberised ), but some manufacturers used other materials instead.

Initially signifying only a small coalition of Tiele tribes in Northern China, Mongolia, and the Altay Mountains, it later denoted citizenship in the Uyghur Khaganate.

Initially the European football union was accounted for 25 members which later doubled by the early 1990s.

Initially a single shop, it later expanded into a major supermarket chain after the Second World War with most retail outlets located in Shizuoka prefecture, south of Tokyo.

Initially, there was a debate as to whether the capital of newly-formed Aomori Prefecture should be at Hachinohe or Hirosaki ; however, due to strong rivalry between the former Nanbu domain and former Tsugaru Domain, the Meiji government decided to build a new town called Aomori is a central location, and to designate it as the capital of the prefecture.