Within days, Freetown was overwhelmed by the presence of the RUF combatants who came to the city in their thousands.

The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city ( January 1999 ).

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

Freetown is one of Sierra Leone's six municipalities and is locally governed by a directly elected city council, headed by a mayor.

The city proper had a population of 772, 873 at the 2004 census, As of 2010, the population of Freetown is estimated at 1. 2 million.

The city of Freetown is one of Sierra Leone's six municipalities and is governed by a directly elected city council, headed by a mayor, in whom executive authority is vested.

The wards in the East End of Freetown ( East I, East II, and East III ) contain the city's largest population center and generally the poorest part of the city.

The three westernmost wards ( West I, West II, and West III ) of the city constitute the West End of Freetown.

A famous landmark in the center of the east of Freetown is the Cotton Tree, which is a treasured symbol of the city because it represents the christening of Freetown in March 1792.

The city is served by the Lungi International Airport, located in the city of Lungi, across the river estuary from Freetown.

The city is represented by Senator Joan M. Menard ( D-Fall River ) who serves as the Assistant Majority Leader of the State Senate, in the First Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes the city and the towns of Freetown, Lakeville, Rochester, Somerset and Swansea.

On May 28, 1775, during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Freetown was fought in a part of the town that is now part of the city of Fall River.

New Bedford is a coastal city, a seaport, bordered on the west by Dartmouth, on the north by Freetown, on the east by Acushnet and Fairhaven, and on the south by Buzzards Bay.

The 10 constituencies that fall within the city limits of Belize are: Albert, Caribbean Shores, Collet, Fort George, Freetown, Lake Independence, Mesopotamia, Pickstock, Port Loyola, and Queen's Square.

At the time, rebel activity was increasing and the capital city Freetown was in danger.

But with the timely intervention of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, 800 British troops were sent to Freetown to halt the impending rebel march to the city.

From there it meanders through the towns of Halifax, Middleborough and Raynham, through the city of Taunton for which it is named, the towns of Berkley, Dighton, Somerset, and the Assonet section of Freetown, to Fall River where it joins Mount Hope Bay, an arm of Narragansett Bay.

* Freetown Christiania, is a partially self-governing neighbourhood in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, which has established semi-legal status as an independent community.

Bo also commonly referred to as Bo Town, is the second largest city in Sierra Leone ( after Freetown ) and the largest city in the Southern Province.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.