Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia ( 26, 765 troops ) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

* 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.

After the ending of the war, all refugees were repatriated to Sudan ; the last of the 9, 700 remaining in Central African Republic were evacuated in April 2007.

On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.

On 12 May 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD.

* 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.

* 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

On 2002-12-12 Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace treaty ending their war and created a pair of binding judicial commissions, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission and the Eritrean-Ethiopian Claims Commission, to rule on their disputed border and related claims.

For the following years with his family, till he left for studies in Paris in 1525, Francis ' life in the Kingdom of Navarre, then partially occupied by Spain, was surrounded by a war that lasted over 18 years, ending with the Kingdom of Navarre being partitioned into two territories, and the King of Navarre and some loyalists abandoning the south and moving to the northern part of the Kingdom of Navarre ( currently France ).

After the war ended, the great powers pressured Denmark into ending the four hundred year-old tradition of the Sound Dues, thus eliminating at a stroke the canal's usefulness as an alternative to the Øresund.

Paris therefore proposes single combat between himself and Menelaus, with Helen to go to the victor, ending the war.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

On 11 November, the Compiègne armistice was signed, ending the war.

Henry IV notably enacted the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which guaranteed religious liberties to the Protestants, thereby effectively ending the civil war.

The treaty ending the war, put France in a protectorate over northern and central Vietnam, which it divided into Tonkin and Annam.

British pressure, and tensions between the pro-and anti-Treaty factions of the IRA, led to a bloody civil war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction.

* 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.

* 1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.

* 1774 – Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.

Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800, 000 gold francs.

The period starting with the construction of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration building ( 1952 ) and ending with Wean Hall ( 1971 ) saw the institutional change from Carnegie Institute of Technology to Carnegie Mellon University.

More generally, the ending can be applied to noun phrases ( as in the man you saw yesterday's sister ); see below.

Jackson saw attacks on Eaton stemming ultimately from the political opposition of Calhoun, and he used the affair to consolidate control over his cabinet, forcing the resignation of several members and ending Calhoun's influence in the cabinet.

* The ending of the introduction saw Lye's face in a sketch with his mouth opening up, leading to a stamp put on his face reading You Can't Do That on Television, followed by the screen cracking and finally splitting in 2 pieces which the cast are seen.

The Federation was formed largely out of the aftermath of the Earth-Romulan War of the late 2150s ending in 2160, when the founding members saw the need for interstellar unity to prevent the horror of further war.

The original ending of the film saw Sam go missing ( after he had left the child at the orphanage ) while he was meant to be writing an article about an upcoming boxing match.

A 2012 Memorial Day ceremony saw the south and east barracks officially turned over to the care of the National Park Service, ending its status as the US Army's " longest continuing operation west of the Mississippi River.

This was done mainly to address ABC's inability to find a suitable 8 p. m. lead-in program for MNF since the 1992 ending of MacGyver ( not even two other series from Paramount Television – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Marshal – which produced MacGyver, saw success, despite the former's ties to Paramount's Indiana Jones film series ), and to allow stations to start their late local newscasts nearer to their regular times.

The season ending in 1980 saw Port Vale finish 20th in the Fourth Division ( 88th overall ), the club's worst ever finish.

The defeated German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires saw the abolition of their monarchies in the close aftermath of the war, ending the reigns of Wilhelm II, Charles I and Mehmed VI respectively.

During this work experience, with his school term ending, Mitsuda saw an advertisement for a sound producer at Square in a copy of Famitsu magazine at a game company he was visiting.

This may take a tragic form-' I saw no prospect of its ending except with death-the death of one of three people ' - or alternately a comic one: ' A man at the funeral of a friend's wife, with whom he has been carrying on an affair, breaks into tears and finally becomes hysterical, while the husband remains impassive.

He also strengthened military ties with neighbouring China, while deteriorating relations with India saw the five-week Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, ending in a United Nations-mandated ceasefire.

In the 1890s, Dow saw that the recession was ending.

Okakura, however, saw it as ending with the transfer of the capital to the Heijō Palace of Nara.

Keegan's last appearance in a Liverpool shirt on home soil, however, saw Liverpool lose the FA Cup final to bitter rivals Manchester United, ending the possibility of the " treble ".

The following year, however, saw an Allied army decisively defeat the Persians at the Battle of Plataea, thereby ending the Persian invasion.

His tenure at MAFF saw several animal health crises ending with the 2001 foot and mouth crisis.

WrestleMania XIX saw Steve Austin's last match to date as he faced The Rock for a third time at WrestleMania, ending their long-running feud.

When the young man returned he disguised himself as a common person and saw for himself the myriad of injustices that the local governor had perpetrated ; using his authority to kill him, things are set straight and the maiden is set free, giving the tale a happy ending.

Graves saw this process of stable plateaus interspersed with change intervals as never ending, up to the limits of the brain of Homo sapiens, something he viewed as far greater than we have yet imagined.

The 2011 " Hall of Fame " saw Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 return to the top spot, ending Vaughan Williams ' four-year run, and held the position again in 2012.

Turner saw the land frontier was ending, since the U. S. Census of 1890 had officially stated that the American frontier had broken up.

What the SIGGRAPH audience saw was the first three-fifths or so of the film, ending a cliffhanger moment with Tinny running into his box and watching in horror through the box's cellophane as Billy advances towards him.