When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

When Alexandria harbour proved inadequate for his fleet, Brueys had gathered his captains and discussed their options.

When the TX-0 successfully proved the basic concepts, attention turned to a much larger system, the 36-bit TX-2 with a then-enormous 64 kWords of core memory.

When their conduct proved unsatisfactory, they were almost invariably brought to trial and exiled or executed, and their property was confiscated.

" When the bodies proved to have been discovered near where Aaron indicated, Bray asked Aaron for further details, and Aaron claimed that he had witnessed the murders committed by Satanists who spoke Spanish.

When the authors refused to comply, he ordered it to be destroyed and instead had prepared an alternative report, which proved highly critical of Jellicoe.

When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

When in 1864 no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

When one assumes that an object does not exist and derives a contradiction from that assumption, one still has not found the object and therefore not proved its existence, according to constructivism.

When events in the Franco-Prussian war proved that old-fashioned fortifications were no more of use, this policy was changed and the fortifications were dismantled in 1874.

When this proved too small he took over Winterland and then the Fillmore West ( in San Francisco ) and the Fillmore East ( in New York City ), where the major rock artists, from both the US and the UK, came to play.

When the matter of honorary degrees came up at the University of Göttingen six years after Germain's death, Gauss lamented, “ proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something worthwhile in the most rigorous and abstract of the sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

When reinforcements to the Serbian royal army arrived some weeks later during the Battle of Kumanovo ( 50 km northeast of Skopje ) it proved decisive in firmly driving out the Ottomans from all of Macedonia.

When the password system linking the three games proved too troublesome, the concept was reduced to two games at Miyamoto's suggestion.

When the electrical circuit, consisting of a Daniell cell, a galvanometer of high resistance, and the metallic conductor, consisting of the ebonite plate, and the sheet of copper, or of the tube containing the filings, was completed, only a very small current flowed ; but there was a sudden diminution of the resistance, which was proved by a large deviation of the galvanometer needle when one or more electric discharges were produced in the neighbourhood of the circuit.

When the bay was " rediscovered " by Sir John Ross in 1818, the charts of the Bylot-Baffin voyage proved extremely accurate.

When Data asked Worf to take care of Spot, Worf proved to be allergic to her and sneezed in her face, angering her (" Phantasms ").

When the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule, beginning in 1566, the territories in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais were those most loyal to the throne, and proved the base from which the Duke of Parma was able to bring the whole southern part of the Netherlands back under Spanish control.

When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, New York, U. S. A., invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible, as Westinghouse and Tesla had built the AC-power Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and proved it effective.

When the Indians proved to be a difficult labor force, peasants from surrounding areas were brought into the region.

When the Swedish government needed 20 computers in the 1960s to calculate taxes, an evaluation between Saab's and IBM's machines proved Saab's better.

When Ronald Colman, his first and only choice for the role of Robert Conway, proved to be unavailable, Capra decided to wait and made Mr. Deeds Goes to Town instead.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

When the blade becomes dull, it can be quickly reversed or switched for a new one.

When the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee in 1953, Selig switched alligences, and eventually became the team's largest public stockholder.

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

When the power supply to the amplifier is first switched on, electronic noise in the circuit provides a signal to get oscillations started.

When England switched to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs.

When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.

When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.

When a light-emitting diode is forward-biased ( switched on ), electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons.

When the circuit is first powered up, neither transistor will be switched on.

When the settlers brought iron, Native Americans switched to iron hoes and hatchets.

When the surface at Tulane Stadium switched from natural grass to PolyTurf in 1971, field temperatures became hotter still.

When in 1942 it became clearer that the fighting would go on for a while, car and truck factories were switched to war work in a modest way, Opel taking up the production of aircraft parts and tanks.

When the current to the coil is switched off, the armature is returned by a force, approximately half as strong as the magnetic force, to its relaxed position.

When the current is switched off, the relay remains in its last state.

When McKinley switched to support for the war, Reed disagreed.

When the display unit is initially switched on, current flows through the thermistor and degaussing coil.

When international cotton prices collapsed, they switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts.

When FreeBSD and NetBSD resynchronized the 4. 4-Lite2 codebase, they too switched over to Bostic's nvi, which they continue to use today.

" When it appeared as though a sale was being concluded, she switched tactics.

When the original user resumes speaking, that user would, in turn, be switched to any channel that happened to be idle.

When data is formatted into packets, the bitrate of the communication medium can be better shared among users than if the network were circuit switched.

When the external power supply is switched on, the metal at the anode is oxidized from the zero valence state to form cations with a positive charge.