Poles are used on barges to fend off the barge as it nears other vessels or a wharf.

Posen Bambergers ) – German Poles are descendants of settlers from the area near Bamberg, who settled in villages around Posen in the years 1719 – 1753.

During the Warsaw Uprising ( 1944 ), a Poles | Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw.

The largest group of foreigners are Icelanders comprising 0. 4 % of the population, followed by Norwegians and Poles, each comprising 0. 2 %.

Today, descendants of those Poles who stayed are living in Casale and Fond Des Blancs.

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

Note that the longitude is singular at the Poles and calculations that are sufficiently accurate for other positions, may be inaccurate at or near the Poles.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

* There are around 250, 000 Poles living in Lithuania and around 25, 000 ethnic Lithuanians living in Poland.

* 1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów ( now Lviv ); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

Poles are manufactured with ratings corresponding to the vaulter's maximum weight.

Poles are manufactured for people of all skill levels and body sizes, with sizes as short as 3. 05m ( 10 feet ) to as long as 5. 30 m ( 17 feet 4. 5 inches ), with a wide range of weight ratings.

The majority of present inhabitants of Warmia are descendants of Poles who either were the Warmiaks or migrated from other parts of Poland, including the pre-1939 Polish Borderlands, after 1945.

* September 22 – Battle of Obertyn: The Moldavians are defeated by Polish forces under Jan Amor Tarnowski, allowing the Poles to recapture Pokucie.

He despised Czechs and Poles, and wrote " no considerations can be taken for Poles, Czechs etc., who are as impotent as they are valueless and overbearing.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

Both reguations, ( 1 ) and ( 2 ), provided for a considerable group of Poles and Israelis, residing in Poland and Israel, who are simultaneously Germans.

While the Cossack elite and the ecclesiastical authorities supported this pro-Polish orientation, the masses and the Cossack rank-and-file remained deeply suspicious and resentful of the Poles, by whom they had long been forced into serfdom.

While it is considered certain that Harald took part in Yaroslav's campaign against the Poles in 1031, it is possible that he also fought against other 1030s Kievan enemies and rivals such as the Chudes in Estonia, the Byzantines, as well as the Pechenegs and other steppe nomad people.

In 2005, the Lukashenko government launched a campaign against the Union of Poles in Belarus ( UPB ) which represents the Polish minority in Belarus and was the largest civil organization uncontrolled by the government at that time.

After the failed campaign the Poles no longer threatened Moldova for the rest of Stephen's reign.

Poles under Russian and German rule also endured official campaigns against the Roman Catholic Church: the Cultural Struggle ( Kulturkampf ) of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to bring the Roman Catholic Church under state control and the Russian campaign to extend Orthodoxy throughout the empire.

There was a significant electioneering propaganda campaign as Poles tried to win the support of other ethnic groups present in the area.

As a result of Napoleon's campaign in 1812 against Russia, the Poles expected that the Duchy would be upgraded to the status of a Kingdom and that during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, they would be joined by the liberated territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland's historic partner in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Both the Poles and the Germans were allowed to organize campaign organizations.

The number of Poles in Ukraine gradually increased over the centuries, but after World War II it drastically decreased as a result of Soviet mass deportation of the Poles in Ukraine to Siberia and other eastern regions of the USSR as well as a campaign of ethnic cleansing, carried out in the early 1940s by Ukrainian nationalists in western part of the country ( see: Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ).

Staszewski then shocked the audience, singing the song 100 000 000, which was based on Lech Wałęsa's presidential campaign unfulfilled promise that all Poles would be given 100 million złotys.

It is estimated that over 40, 000 Poles killed during spring and summer of 1943 campaign in Volhynia.

Even though the Bzura campaign ended in defeat for the Poles, its strategic importance lay in the fact that because of initial Polish local victories the German advance on Warsaw was halted for several days, and the Wehrmacht was required to divert units from its push towards Warsaw.

" On the other hand, Timothy Snyder suggests that the argument was intended only to provide justification for the state-sanctioned campaign of mass-murder meant to eradicate Poles as a national ( and linguistic ) minority group.

It was arguably the most heroic battle in the campaign, in which according to latest sources under 720 Poles defended a fortified line for three days against more than 40, 000 Germans.

Poland also did not intend to make any territorial concessions, justifying its actions not only as part of a military campaign against the Soviets but also as the right of self-determination of local Poles.

After being captured by the Poles in 1663, Bohun was offered freedom in exchange for taking part in a new military campaign against the Tsardom of Russia.

After killing many of the Jewish merchants at the Sich, the Cossacks set off on a campaign against the Poles.

After a postponed 2005 release date, Light Poles and Pine Trees dropped in June 2006 to high acclaim and much fanfare, owing at least partly from an extensive promotional campaign by Disturbing tha Peace and multiple radio promo tracks.

While this rebellion may have begun with the aim of stopping social, national, and religious oppression of Ukrainians, it rapidly became a full-fledged campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed against Poles, Jews, and non-Orthodox Ukrainians.

Himmler's belief that " it is in the nature of German blood to resist " led to his conclusion that Balts or Poles who resisted Germanization were racially superior to more compliant ones.

Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, but by March 1939 German demands had been rejected by the Poles three times, which led Hitler to decide, with enthusiastic support from Ribbentrop, upon the destruction of Poland as the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.

That same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack.

Ribbentrop had used such extreme language, in particular his remark that if Germany had a different policy towards the Soviet Union then Poland would cease to exist, that it led to the Poles ordering partial mobilization and placing their armed forces on the highest state of alert on 23 March 1939.

In 1612 the Poles were forced to retreat by the Russian volunteer corps, led by two national heroes, merchant Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

The many ethnic groups such as Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews, Italians, and African Americans that began to settle in Chicago in the early 1900s were mostly detached from the political system, due in part to lack of organization which led to underrepresentation in the City Council.

* August 10 – Battle of Nakło: The Poles, led by Bolesław III Wrymouth, defeat the Pomeranians.

Repnin also demanded religious freedom for the Protestant and Orthodox Christians, and the resulting reaction among some of Poland's Roman Catholics, as well as the deep resentment of Russian intervention in the Commonwealth's domestic affairs, led to the War of the Confederation of Bar from 1768 – 1772, where the Poles tried to expel Russian forces from Commonwealth territory.

Individual Poles, both clerical and secular, also offered various forms of aid to the Jewish people. For example, the children's section of Żegota led by Irena Sendler saved 2, 500 Jewish children with cooperation of Polish families and the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary, Roman Catholic convents such as the Little Sister Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Conceived Immaculate.

The differences between Germans and Poles led to the First & Second Silesian Uprisings, and German resistance against them.

" An office of the Polish Government in Exile wrote to warn Władysław Sikorski that if the Charter was implemented with regards to national self-determination, it would make the desired Polish annexation of Danzig, East Prussia and parts of German Silesia impossible, which led the Poles to approach Britain asking for a flexible interpretation of the Charter.

The atmosphere of revenge for the Soviet crimes against ethnic Poles led to the Jedwabne pogrom of July 1941, where a mob of Poles murdered around 300 local Jews in a burning barn-house.

The massacres committed by UPA led to ethnic cleansing and retaliatory killings in kind by Poles against local Ukrainians in both Poland itself and the regions to the east of the Curzon Line.

The London Poles, led by Mikołajczyk, refused to this proposition, even when Churchill threatened to cut off relations with them.

Poles led to the trains under German army escort, as part of the Nazi German ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the Reich immediately following the Invasion of Poland ( 1939 ) | invasion of 1939.

The West Ukrainian People's Republic, led by Yevhen Petrushevych, had tried unsuccessfully to create a Ukrainian state on territories to which both Poles and Ukrainians laid claim.

It was formerly part of the Zielona Góra Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ), a reconfiguration of the old German state of Prussia, the eastern 40 % of which was inherited by Poland in 1945, and led to the expulsion of its native German inhabitants and the repopulation of the city and the environment by Poles.

The Poles, led by Poniatowski, defeated one of the Russian formations at the Battle of Zieleńce on June 18.

This led to increasing numbers of Poles being sent to Siberia for katorga, where they were known as Sybiraks.

An Austrian division then crossed the Vistula again trying to pursue the Poles, but was routed on May 2 at Góra Kalwaria in a daring attack led by General Michał Sokolnicki.

Later, the increase in the sheer numbers of Poles led the government to a direct anti-Polish demographic policy.

The state itself was led by German nationalism and Bismarck viewed Poles as one of the chief threat to German power ; as he declared The Polish question is to us a question of life and death and wanted Polish nation to disappear in private going as far as expressing his wish to exterminate Poles As a result the Polish population faced economic, religious and political discrimination the Germanisation of their territories was promoted and in places where Poles and Germans lived a virtual apartheid existed.