The Germans, most of whom spoke no English, had been told that soldiers with bits of white paper in their hat were Loyalists, and should not be fired on ; Stark's men had also heard this and many of them had suitably adorned their hats.

He seized Augusta in March 1780, with the aid of an Upper Creek war-party, but reinforcements from the Lower Creeks and local white Loyalists never came, and Georgia militia led by Elijah Clarke retook Augusta in 1781.

The Rangers were accused of participating in — or at least failing to prevent — the Wyoming Valley massacre of July 1778 and the Cherry Valley massacre of November 1778 of white settlers ( including some Loyalists ) by Joseph Brant's Iroquois.

In 2000 historian Robert Calhoon said the consensus of historians is that in the Thirteen Colonies between 40 and 45 percent of the white population supported the Patriots ' cause, between 15 and 20 % supported the Loyalists, and the remainder were neutral or kept a low profile.

With a white population of about 2. 5 million, that makes about 380, 000 to 500, 000 Loyalists.

Only two white churches downtown opened their doors to refugees who had fled Greenwood.

The Incas said that the " white gods " had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific.

Almost all of the white population fled to St. Thomas.

The white inhabitants fled to the nearby North-West Mounted Police post, Fort Battleford.

Most white men of military age had either enlisted with the Confederacy or fled the region.

In 1901 a white lynch mob killed several African Americans in Pierce City and the rest of the black community fled the town.

By late 1862, Henrietta was abandoned, as white settlers fled back east to Cooke and Montague counties.

" And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for them.

The two brothers fled along with eighteen members of the tribe on a white camel with water, soil, and a Koran before heading east.

When the Cree approached Battleford, the white inhabitants fled to the nearby North-West Mounted Police post, Fort Battleford.

When Pontiac's Rebellion occurred in 1763, refugees again fled into the city, including a group of Lenape hiding from other Native Americans, angry at their pacifism, and white frontiersmen.

The white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks by use of diamonds.

Nevertheless the last remaining white business owners fled.

They searched for white paramilitary members, but many had already fled to Texas or the hills.

Waluś fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards after Hani's neighbour, a white woman, called the police.

The white planter families had fled to other locations on the mainland, sometimes leaving behind their slaves.

Beginning during the slave insurrections of 1791, white refugees from Saint-Domingue fled to the United States, particularly Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and Charleston.

Several Sioux on a hilltop waved a white flag requesting talks but they were fired on by soldiers and fled.

By 1938, some 450, 000 of about 900, 000 German Jews had fled Germany, mostly to British Mandate Palestine, though the British had a white paper barring Jews from Palestine during the war, ( a number which also included over 50, 000 German Jews who had taken advantage of the Haavara, or " Transfer " Agreement between German Zionists and the Nazis ), but British immigration quotas prevented many from migrating.

Those who fled settled in Thessaloniki and in 1926 established P. A. O. K., retaining their Greek symbols: the twin-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire, and black and white for their colors, to symbolize the black of mourning for the tragic story of lost homelands, and white for the hope of a better tomorrow.

Among some whites, slave music grew increasingly popular, especially after the American Civil War, when black and white soldiers worked together and Southern slaves fled north in huge numbers.

By the 1960s and ' 70s, as industry fled the city, so did the white middle class, leaving behind a poor population.

Brunhilde fled on a white stallion ( Ross ), but they suddenly came to a deep ravine.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

Threaded on a skewer with new boiled potatoes, a bit of green pepper, a fresh white mushroom -- any one of these spiced meats makes a man a cook, and a meal a feast.

The Muslim-Christian Association protested the carrying of new " white and blue banners with two inverted triangles in the middle ".

Electric lights are most common, with halogen lamps being standard and white LEDs as the new competing technology.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

In October 2008 TfL introduced a new colour scheme to the vehicles, using the blue, white and green of the routes ' symbol on TfL maps, to distinguish the trams from its buses operating in the area.

The strong Victorian colours disappeared, though, and new publications called for white or pale threads, except for fancy purses, which were often crocheted of brightly colored silk and elaborately beaded.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

Agriculture dwindled, new imports of slaves ceased, and white colonists, free blacks, and slaves alike lived in poverty, weakening the racial hierarchy and aiding intermixing, resulting in a population of predominantly mixed Spaniard, African, and Taíno descent.

The new helmet was silverblue, with a blue-white-blue tri-stripe down the center ( the middle white stripe was thicker ).

Davros emerges as " The Great Healer " of the funeral and cryogenic preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, where he uses frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of Daleks loyal to him, distinguished from the original Daleks by their white and gold livery and slightly changed design.

In order to meet this new job demand, high schools were created and the curriculum focused on practical job skills that would better prepare students for white collar or skilled blue collar work.

He also created landscapes and scenes of people at work and play, using a new optimistic style — broad, loose brushstrokes of vibrant color with frequent use of white space and rare use of black — with only occasional references to his morbid themes.

Along with the new name, Exxon settled on a rectangular logo using red lettering and blue trim on a white background, similar to the familiar color scheme on the old Enco and Esso logos.

By 1910 new smaller Danish companies began joining the business, and besides making more films about the white slave trade, they contributed other new subjects.

As white Democrats regained power in the state legislatures of the South after Reconstruction, they began to impose new laws that disfranchised blacks and to create labor and criminal laws limiting their freedom.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

These included rising populations, the growth of white settlement and slaving that dispossessed native peoples both at the Cape and in Portuguese Mozambique, and the rise of ambitious " new men.

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for “ raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability .” With knighthood, Tenniel elevated the social status of the black and white illustrator, and sparked a new sense of recognition of and occupational honour to his lifelong profession.

This new set widened his playing ; he abandoned his hi-hat cymbals almost entirely and started basing his grooves on a double bass ostinato with eighth note flams, and a wall of white noise created by riding a crash or ride cymbal.

* The Okarito Kiwi, also known as the Rowi or Okarito Brown Kiwi, Apteryx rowi, first identified as a new species in 1994, is slightly smaller, with a greyish tinge to the plumage and sometimes white facial feathers.