When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

Smiling at Warren's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.

Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.

The x-ray data did not permit Douglass to determine uniquely the space group, but a negative test for piezoelectricity led him to assume a center of symmetry.

It would be all right with him, he decided, if his investigation of the fraud, with its probable by-product of murder, led to Garth's door.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

After solving a case Poirot has the habit of collecting all people involved into a single room and explaining them the reasoning that led him to the solution, and revealing that the murderer is one of them.

At Antietam, he led his men into the deadly fighting in the Cornfield and the West Woods, and one colonel described him as a " gallant officer ... remarkably cool and at the very front of battle.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I ( 1730 – 54 ) to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

The need for a male heir led him to contract a second marriage to Yolande de Dreux on 1 November 1285.

This apparently alienated many in the legions and led to a conspiracy to assassinate and replace him.

However, his aptitude for sculpture led him to work for Giulio Cesare Conventi ( 1577 — 1640 ), an artist of modest talents.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

In this ending, Nora is led to her children after having argued with Torvald.

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.

Ottoman conquests led to the 1493 Battle of Krbava field and 1526 Battle of Mohács, both ending in decisive Ottoman victories.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

It also appears that he came into contact with the banned Christian sect known as the khlysty ( flagellants ) whose impassioned services, ending in physical exhaustion, led to rumors that religious and sexual ecstasy were combined in these rituals.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

At the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Polish King John III Sobieski, decisively defeated a large Turkish army, ending the western colonial Ottoman advance and leading to the eventual dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

This unusual final table of the Serie A ( with the most successful Italian teams of the time, Juventus and AS Roma, ending up much lower than expected ) has led to many speculations.

As colonial rule was ending throughout the continent and as African-majority governments assumed control in neighbouring Northern Rhodesia and in Nyasaland, the white-minority Rhodesia government led by Ian Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence ( UDI ) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965, effectively repudiating the British plan that the country should become a multi-racial democracy.

British pressure, and tensions between the pro-and anti-Treaty factions of the IRA, led to a bloody civil war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction.

At the same time, the ending of the informal Sino-German alliance led Chiang to terminate all of the concessions and contracts held by German companies in Kuomintang China.

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.

* 1434 – Hussite Wars ( Bohemian Wars ): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.

* 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

National won the 2008 election ending nine years of Labour led Government.

* 1974-Military coup in Ethiopia led to the overthrown of Haile Selassie by the communist junta led by General Aman Andom and Mengistu Haile Mariam, ending one of the world's longest lasting monarchies in history.

However, after a sensational uncovering of massive bribes scandals in the early 1990s, the city had become a stronghold of the conservative coalition led by Milanese media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi combined with the secessionist far-right movement Northern League, a trend that seems to have been reversed only by the 2011 municipal elections, in which a progressive candidate successfully contested the mayoral seat, thus ending almost 20 years of conservative administrations.

Small nuclear reactors can compete in this regard, and considerable work on nuclear thermal propulsion was carried out in the 1960s, but environmental concerns and rising costs led to the ending of most of these programs.

* December – Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing Dynasty authority in China, then led by the Kangxi Emperor.

* May 15 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.