Sixty four settlers died en route to Sierra Leone, and even Lieutenant Clarkson was ill during the voyage.

The project was canceled when Leone died two days before he was to officially sign on for the film.

Sixty four settlers died en route to Sierra Leone, and even Lieutenant Clarkson was ill during the voyage.

The first pygmy hippo was brought to Europe in 1873 after being captured in Sierra Leone by a member of the British Colonial Service but died shortly after arrival.

He contracted malaria when the expedition reached Prahsu, about 30 miles from Kumasi, and subsequently died aboard the cruiser HMS Blonde stationed off the coast of Sierra Leone.

At Cambridge, it was founded in 1917 by a donation of £ 10, 000 from Arthur Serena ( died 1922 ), a shipbroker and son of the Venetian patriot Leone Serena.

In 1936, he married Leone Evans who died in 1937 after an illness.

His father, originally from Sierra Leone, died when Paul ( or Paddy as he was then known ) and his security guard brother Brian were very young.

The cenotaphs in black marble in the side walls were erected for the Strozzi family: Cardinal Lorenzo ( died 1571 ), Leone ( died 1554 ), Pietro ( died 1558 ), Roberto Strozzi ( died 1566 ) and Maddalena Medici.

In 1828 he was appointed governor of Sierra Leone, but after administering the colony for five weeks died of fever at Freetown.

The children of those killed in the fighting, or who died in detention, were among the first to join the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) when they attacked eastern and southern Sierra Leone from Liberia nine years later.

Two other Bartolini monuments in Santa Croce can be compoared with it ; in the Capella Giugni is his monument to Carlotta Buonaparte ( died 1839 ), but when the occasion required a more formal approach, as in the monument to Leone Battista Alberti, the result could be chilly.

An economic dependence on commodities, such as diamond s being mined by these children in Sierra Leone, is correlated with an increased risk of civil war.

Wallach and Leone had built a good relationship during shooting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but had a falling-out later on.

Leone then called to apologize to Wallach, who remained dumbstruck on the other end of the line.

After even refusing to give Wallach a token payment for losing out on two jobs, the actor said, " I'll sue you "— to which Leone replied, " Get in line ", and slammed down the phone.

With the addition of Sierra Leone, Africa's first floorball nation, the IFF has at least one national association on each continent of the world, with the exception of Antarctica.

He made multiple stops on his way toward the tip of Africa, eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Sierra Leone by 22 July 1580.

Two Guinean MiGs made a low flyover of Freetown and Toure placed the Guinean military on alert ' because of the serious troubles affecting the fraternal peoples of Sierra Leone.

After brief stops in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast, he arrived in the Gold Coast on 10 December 1947.

The total length of Liberia's land borders is: with Sierra Leone on the northwest, with Guinea to the north, and with Côte d ' Ivoire.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

Smaller army forces have been previously sent on UN and ECOWAS deployments in the former Yugoslavia, Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sierra Leone.

They were to have an important impact on the peoples of Sierra Leone because they increased trade and also produced secondary population movements into Sierra Leone.

A number of " Black Poor " arrived off the coast of Sierra Leone on 15 May 1787, accompanied by some English tradesmen.

Alexander Falconbridge was sent to Sierra Leone in 1791 to collect the remaining Black Poor settlers, and they re-established Granville Town ( later on renamed Cline Town ) near Fourah Bay.

Upon reaching Sierra Leone, Clarkson and some of the Nova Scotian ' captains ' " despatched on shore to clear or make roadway for their landing ".

The Sierra Leone Company surveyors and the Settlers built Freetown on the American grid pattern, with parallel streets and wide roads, with the largest being Water Street.

To forestall French incursion into what they had come to consider as their own sphere, the British government renewed efforts to finalise a boundary agreement with France and on 1 January 1890 instructed Governor Hay in Sierra Leone to get from chiefs in the boundary area friendship treaties containing a clause forbidding them to treat with another European power without British consent.

Consequently, in 1890 and 1891 Hay and two travelling Commissioners, Garrett and Alldridge, went on extensive tours of what is now Sierra Leone obtaining treaties from chiefs.

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.

On 27 April 1961, Sir Milton Margai lead Sierra Leone to Independence from Britain and became the country's first Prime Minister.

The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

On 19 April 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was renamed as the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force ( RSLMF ).

The first performance in Italy was at La Scala, Milan on 17 April 1843 with Ottavia Malvani ( Norina ), Napoleone Rossi ( Pasquale ), Leone Corelli ( Ernesto ), and Achille De Bassini ( Malatesta ).

Sergio Leone (; January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989 ) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the " Spaghetti Western " genre.

* April 25 – Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher ( b. 1404 )

* April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

* Sandline International – Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone ( closed 16 April 2004 )

The national flag of Sierra Leone was officially hoisted on April 27, 1961.

On April 27, 1961, Milton Margai led Sierra Leone to independence from the United Kingdom.

Warren Lewis served in such postings as Belgium ( 1919 ), Aldershot ( November 1919 ), Sierra Leone ( 9 March 1921 to 23 March 1922 ), Colchester ( 4 October 1922 to December 1925 ), Woolwich ( January 1925 until April 1927 ), and China ( two tours of duty, the first beginning on 11 April 1927 in Kowloon, South China, then later in Shanghai, and ending in April 1930 ; the second beginning on 9 October 1931 and ending on 14 December 1932 ).

On 7 April 2008, Blah said that he had been sent a subpoena to testify at Taylor's trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

They were first issued by such tropical climates as Sierra Leone in February 1964 and Tonga in April 1969 in an attempt to avoid the tendency of traditional water-activated stamps to stick together in humid conditions.

Cooper and wife Marianne Leone Cooper, April 2007.

In April 1971, Stevens made Sierra Leone a republic and he became the first President of Sierra Leone a day after the constitution had been ratified by the Parliament of Sierra Leone.