Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

The Chilean War of Independence was part of the larger Spanish American independence movement, and it was far from having unanimous support among Chileans, who became divided between independentists and royalists.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

The right of petition has a long tradition in the Netherlands ; indeed the Dutch War of Independence started after a petition had been rejected by the Habsburg authorities, the noble petitioners having been contemptuously treated as " beggars " ( Geuzen ).

In modern days, Lititz is now recognized for having the longest continuous-running celebration of Independence Day, which has been a town tradition since 1813.

The city of Independence was incorporated in 1842 to be the county seat of Kenton County, having been determined to be the geographical center of the newly formed county, and was named to mark the independence of Kenton County from Campbell County.

Fiedler is also credited with having begun the annual tradition of the Fourth of July Pops concert and fireworks display on the Esplanade, one of the best-attended Independence Day celebrations in the country with estimated crowds of 200, 000 – 500, 000 people.

Te Huihuinga was also a political movement and considered themselves as having seceded to ' Te Kotahitanga ' ( an autonomous Māori parliament movement founded upon ' Te Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tïreni ' 1835 ( Declaration of Independence )).

In 1996, the Aryan Nations posted on its website an " Aryan Declaration of Independence, in which we find that " the history of the present Zionist Occupied Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ... having a direct object — the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.

The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence, the largest battle of the entire conflict, and the first battle in which an army of the United States engaged, having declared itself a nation only the month before.

She included prominent historical figures among her subjects, such as Thomas Jefferson as having hosted walk-in spirits who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

After having a role in the Irish War of Independence, he went on to defend the nascent Irish Free State, as part of the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War.

This is the most widely distributed post office system in the world India is believed to have the most widely distributed system in the world ( China has 57, 000, Russia 41, 000 and the United States 38, 000 offices ).< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. mapsofworld. com / world-top-ten / countries-with-most-post-office. html World map showing top 10 countries with most post offices </ nowiki ></ ref > This proliferation of offices results from India's long tradition of having many disparate postal systems, eventually unified in the Indian Union after Independence.

He also raised troops for the War of Independence and eventually gained the rank of captain in the Pennsylvania militia by 1777, having participated in several battles.

My father is a good man whose life has nothing remarkable except his having served in subordinate positions in the War of Independence ... My mother is the true figure of Christianity in its purest sense ; with her, trust in Providence was always the solution to all difficulties in life.

The flag of Jamaica was adopted on August 6, 1962, the original Jamaican Independence Day, the country having gained independence from the British-protected Federation of the West Indies.

In 2006, Gill announced that he had joined the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ), having endorsed the Party's policies at the European Parliament election, 2004.

The holiday generates a great deal of road traffic ; Utah Department of Public Safety statistics demonstrate that Pioneer Day has the second highest holiday traffic fatality rate in Utah, with the earlier July 4 Independence Day having the highest rate.

Emmerich then directed Independence Day, an alien invasion feature, released in 1996, that became the first film to gross $ 100 million in less than a week and went on to become one of the most financially successful films of all time, at one point having been the second-highest grossing film in terms of worldwide box office.

Viewed as a professional officer with no political aspiration because of his imprisonment during the Bangladesh Independence War in former West Pakistan and having a talent for Bengali speech writing, he soon became the closest politico-military counselor of Ziaur Rahman.

After having had a series of talks with the British Government and after preparing a Constitution for an independent Malta, which was endorsed by Parliament and approved by the people in a referendum held in February 1964, Borg Olivier set 21 September as Malta's Independence Day.

He is credited with making the Economic Case for Scottish Independence, having taken the argument to the media, boardrooms and committee rooms across Scotland between 2001 and 2007.

Alvear was one of the few professional military officers to participate of the Argentine War of Independence on the side of the revolutionaries, having served in the Spanish Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

After the American War of Independence, James Tobin having returned to England and settled at Redland, near Bristol, John was sent to Bristol Grammar School under Dr. Charles Lee.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

In the United States Declaration of Independence, the British government is cited to have been reducing the American people under absolute despotism: " But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security ".

Within weeks of the Stonewall Riots, Craig Rodwell, proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in lower Manhattan, was working to commemorate them by replacing the Annual Reminder, which had been held annually in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia since 1965, with a celebration of the Stonewall Riots.

In September 1969, Rodwell and local lesbian allies led by Ellen Broidy, attended an Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations ( ERCHO ) meeting in Philadelphia and got it to vote to replace the Fourth of July Annual Reminder at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which ERCHO had been sponsoring since 1965, with a first commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

Power then passed into the hands of a group of politicians, most of whom who had been commanders in the War of Independence against the Ottomans.

Movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. told his earliest followers that the Garden of Eden had been located in Jackson County, and that the New Jerusalem where Jesus will come in the Second Coming would be built in Independence.

Since Independence, the party electoral system has been dominated by the Christian democratic Nationalist Party ( Partit Nazzjonalista ) and the social democratic Labour Party ( Partit Laburista ).

Because of the intersection between natural law and natural rights, it has been cited as a component in the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Two crossed swords also look like a Christian cross and the mixed symbolism has been used in military decorations, for instance in the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( before 1730 ) and the Cross of Independence.

This had also been promised to the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Nehru in return for Sikh political support during the negotiations for Indian Independence.

The original July 4 United States Declaration of Independence manuscript was lost while all other copies have been derived from this original document.

By the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain had been at war for more than a year.

Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated, after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the United States Declaration of Independence ; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.

Adams ' grandfather, also called Gerry Adams, had been a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) during the Irish War of Independence.

This name has 15th Century origins, however from the 20th century the name has been more commonly attributed to the prominent role Cork played in the Irish War of Independence ( 1919 – 1921 ) when it was the scene of considerable fighting ; in addition, it was an anti-treaty stronghold during the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ).

By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho.

The Spanish monopoly on cochineal production had been worth a fortune until the early 19th century, when the Mexican War of Independence and other market changes disrupted production.

Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, edited a version of the Bible in which he removed sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.

Smith ’ s defiant response was a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, timed to coincide with Armistice Day at 11. 00 am on 11 November 1965, an attempt to garner support in the UK by reminding people of the contribution of the colony to the war effort ( Smith himself had been a Spitfire pilot ).

Independence II has been called an intermediate phase between the earlier cultures and the Dorset culture, which arrived in Greenland in around 700 BC ; recent studies have shown the cultures may be identical within Greenland.

The names of the Independence Creek, Beaver River and Murmur Creek have been unchanged and are still named the same to this day.

The tariff has been used as a political tool to establish an independent nation ; for example, the United States Tariff Act of 1789, signed specifically on July 4, was called the " Second Declaration of Independence " by newspapers because it was intended to be the economic means to achieve the political goal of a sovereign and independent United States.

On 16 August 2008 ( one day after the Independence Day of India ), the gay community in Mumbai held its first ever formal pride parade ( although informal pride parades had been held many times earlier ), to demand that India's anti-gay laws be amended.

It was a very bitter war, a total war, and that is something that I am afraid has been lost to history .... he presence of the Loyalists ( colonists who did not want to join the fight for independence from Britain ) meant that the War of Independence was a conflict of complex loyalties.