While the legion was in battle formation, the Pilus Prior was given command of the entire cohort.

Prior to the battle with the Fomorians, he coupled with the goddess of war, the Mórrígan, on Samhain in exchange for a plan of battle.

Prior to waging war against Artaxerxes, Cyrus proposed that the enemy was the Pisidians, and so the Greeks were unaware that they were to battle against the larger army of King Artaxerxes II.

The remains of some of his soldiers were found in the nearby village of Cleeve Prior after fleeing from the battle of Evesham.

Prior to the Russo-Japanese War, countries constructed their battleships with mixed batteries of mainly 152 mm ( 6-inch ), 203 mm ( 8-inch ), 254 mm ( 10-inch ) and 305 mm ( 12-inch ) guns, with the intent that these battleships fight on the battle line in a close-quarter, decisive fleet action.

Prior to the battle, the Neapolitan army – defeated in earlier engagements – was rebuilt in Capua under marshal Giosuè Ritucci.

Prior to this battle, Black Hawk had not been committed to war.

Prior to Ipsus, he had never before lost a battle.

Prior to the battle, Richard is visited by the ghosts of his victims, all of whom tell him to " Despair and die!

Prior to the battle, the Flemish militia had either been ordered to take no prisoners or did not care for the military custom of asking for a ransom for captured knights or nobles ;

Prior to the battle, isolated fighting around Lone Pine had begun early in the Gallipoli campaign.

Prior to the battle, the Muslims and Meccans had fought several smaller skirmishes in late 623 and early 624, as the Muslim ghazawāt ( prophet-led battles ) had become more frequent.

Prior to the battle, Bishop Ronan blessed the troops.

Prior to the battle, there were other indirect encounters between some of the combatants, and the military might of China had been projected beyond the harsh continental climate and the dry, desolate, and difficult terrain of the Tarim Basin, much of which consists of the Taklamakan Desert, as early as the Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of Han sent military expeditions to seize horses which got as far as the Ferghana.

* Prior to a naval battle with King Eumenes II of Pergamon, Hannibal sent a herald with a message for the opposing commander.

Prior to the battle, Confederate troops under the command of Brig.

Prior to becoming count, he was defeated by Guy of Namur at the battle on the island of Duiveland in 1304.

Prior to the battle, the Athenian commander, Alcibiades, left his helmsman, Antiochus, in command of the Athenian fleet, which was blockading the Spartan fleet in Ephesus.

Prior to the battle some of Agesilaus's army were disturbed by an omen witnessed some days before, when the sun had appeared crescent shaped.

Prior to the battle, the Senones, a single tribe of Gaul, traversed the Appennines searching for new land to settle.

Prior to battle, Azhag would lay out his plan of attack, speaking in a decidedly un-Orcy voice heavy with the weight of centuries, then bellow at his ladz to get moving.

Prior to the battle, Willoughby placed Company 101 of 82 Bru Montagnard tribesmen, on the northeastern flank of the camp, with the 3rd Combat Reconnaissance Platoon positioned just behind it.

Prior to the final battle in the episode " Chosen ", Robin expresses concern that Faith views men as mere sex objects, and pledges to surprise her if they survive.

Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled.

Prior to the reunification of Germany, many surviving Gründerzeit buildings were left uninhabited and, after years of degradation, waiting for demolition.

Prior to 1940, the Netherlands was a neutral country, generally on good terms with Germany.

Prior to Hitler coming to power, black entertainers were popular in Germany, but the Nazis banned Jazz as ‘ corrupt negro music ’.

Prior powerhouses are Finland, Germany and Sweden.

Prior to 1945, the town was part of Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Prussia and Germany.

Prior to 1871, Germany was not a unified nation state, and had no capital city.

Prior to moving the base to Lahr, Germany, there were ceremonies in these towns and in Longuyon, France ( Permanent Married Quarters ), where the Canadians left three small ' thunderbird ' totem poles.

Prior to 1890 pictorialism emerged through advocates who were mainly in England, Germany, Austria and France.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to the escalation of World War II to the Pacific and East Asia, the Japanese planners regarded it as self-evident that the conquests secured in Japan's earlier wars with Russia ( South Sakhalin and the Kwantung Leased Territory ), Germany ( the South Pacific Mandate ) and China ( Manchuria ) would be retained, as well as Korea ( Chōsen ), Taiwan ( Formosa ), the recently seized additional portions of China and occupied French Indochina.

Prior to the start of the tournament, hopes were not as high for Germany as in previous tournaments ( even in Germany itself ), even though it was the host nation.

Prior to the World Cup the Mannschaft lost in a friendly to England 2 – 1, another friendly against Argentina 1 – 0, and less than a year after the World Cup Germany lost against Australia 2 – 1.

Prior to the Anschluss, a powerful transmitter in Munich bombarded Austria with propaganda of what Hitler had already done for Germany, and what he could do for his native home country Austria.

Prior to leaving for Germany, Ishiwara converted to Nichiren Buddhism.

" Regardless, Peat died in April 1837 and Sir Henry Dymoke was appointed Grand Prior and he re-established contact with the knights in France and Germany, where the group had also by that time expanded to.

Prior to Mokranjac's era, Serbia's representatives of the romantic period were world-renowned violinist Dragomir Krancevic ( 1847 – 1929 ), pianist Sidonija Ilic, Pianist and composer Jovanka Stojkovic and opera singer Sofija Sedmakov who achieved success performing in opera houses of Germany in the 1890s.

Prior to World War II it marked part of the border between Germany ( East Prussia ) and Lithuania.

Prior to the acquisition of the Fairmont chain, CP Hotels operated two hotels in Israel, three in Germany and one in the United States.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Prior to this time, Theosophy had made little headway in Germany ; despite some visits by Helena Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society, to Germany and its prominent Theosophists, it was not until after her death in 1891 that a single Berlin Lodge was officially chartered in 1894.