When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

Soon before the siege of Lisbon by the crusaders, a Muslim expedition left in search of legendary Islands offshore.

He left Lisbon on 28 January 1727 for Rome, where he married Maria Caterina Gentili on 6 May 1728.

The heavily armed fleet of fifteen ships and eight hundred men left Lisbon on 12 February 1502.

By this time, Mozambique had become a Portuguese colony, but administration was left to the trading companies ( like Mozambique Company and Niassa Company ) who had received long-term leases from Lisbon.

Within a year of the Portuguese military coup at Lisbon, almost all Portuguese population had left the African territory as refugees ( in mainland Portugal they were known as retornados ) – some expelled by the new ruling power of Mozambique, some fleeing in fear.

By this time, Mozambique had become a Portuguese colony, but administration was left to the trading companies ( like Mozambique Company and Niassa Company ) who had received long-term leases from Lisbon.

Badajoz (, formerly written Badajos in English ; ) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain, situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid – Lisbon railway.

Most Hanna family members left New Lisbon in the early 1850s.

He left France in late 1942 for Lisbon and lived there until his death, in a suite at the luxurious Aviz Hotel, on 20 July 1955, aged 86.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

This situation left the majority of the Portuguese discontent, and the Portuguese nobility was unwilling to support the claim of the princess because that could mean the incorporation of Portugal to Castile ; also the powerful merchants of the capital, Lisbon, were enraged from being excluded from the negotiations.

Traditionally, the north and the autonomous regions are politically more conservative, while the south and the region of Lisbon are dominated by the left.

The royal family escaped unharmed from the catastrophe: King Joseph I of Portugal and the court had left the city, after attending mass at sunrise, fulfilling the wish of one of the king's daughters to spend the holiday away from Lisbon.

Having left for Lisbon, Mainland Portugal, he enrolled in the University of Lisbon's Medical School, in 1960 and 1961 ; subsequently, he left Portugal for political reasons, and enrolled in the University of Poitiers in France, where he stayed up until 1963.

Later Portuguese voyages left from Belém, just west of Lisbon.

He was moved to Lisbon by the colonial government, and he there played soccer until 1972, when he left to protest Portugal's colonial war in Angola.

After Porto chairman Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa quarrelled with his agent José Veiga, the player refused to part with his agent and left, joining Lisbon side S. L.

The younger Neto left Angola for Portugal, and studied medicine at the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon.

Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, however, the nuns left England for the Low Countries, and thence, after many vicissitudes, to Rouen in France and finally, in 1594, to Lisbon the capital of Portugal.

In June 2007, Derlei left Benfica for Lisbon rivals Sporting Clube de Portugal, signing a contract until 2009, after being freed from his two-year contract with Dynamo Moscow.

No sovereign state has ever left the EU, except Greenland, but since the passage of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 there is now a defined process for doing so.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Todman, you take the one on the left.

`` Just befoh he left foh his academeh we wuh hevin dack-rihs on the vuhranduh, Major Roebuck an Ah, an Huhmun says ' May Ah hev one too '??

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Papa had left us about the same hour of the night that Ben had passed on.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

In short, the traditional epithet for Milton of ' Lady of Christ's ', while eminently fitting, rests only on this baffling passage in the midst of the most treacherous piece of writing Milton left us.

So far the platoons on left and right fielders don't seem capable of carrying the load.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.