Dutch troops were eventually forced to withdraw because of mass desertion of recruits from the southern provinces, while the States-General in Brussels voted in favour of secession and declared independence.

As the Civil War loomed, Greenville was divided over the issue of secession, as were several area towns and counties.

Mexican families lived in the area when Anglo settlers began moving in following the secession of Texas during the latter half of the 19th century.

This is a timeline of the Texas Revolution, spanning the time from the earliest independence movements of the area of Texas, over the declaration of independence from Spain, up to the secession of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.

In the Bellville area of Austin County, another destination for Forty-Eighters, the German precincts voted decisively against the secession ordinance.

After the proclamation of the Turkish republic, Azdavay was made a district in 1946, although by the secession of the towns Ağlı and Pınarbaşı in 1988, its population and land area largely decreased.

Absaroka, named after the Absaroka Range, was an area in the United States, comprising parts of the states of Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming, that contemplated secession and statehood in 1939.

If the proposed secession were to occur, the surviving Suffolk County would have a land area of 1, 462. 001 km² ( 564. 482 sq mi ) and an adjusted 2000 census population of 1, 293, 927 inhabitants.

The Washington State Constitution is unclear on the process by which new counties can be created, but indicates that for the process of secession to begin, residents must gather the signatures of 50 % of the registered voters in the area.

In 1998, the state Supreme Court ruled that signatures from half the registered voters of the affected area are required to propose a new county, shelving many county secession movements in the state.

In accordance with its rights under the Constitution, in 1996 the Nevis Island Administration under the Concerned Citizens ' Movement ( CCM ) of Premier Vance Amory initiated steps towards secession from the Federation, the most recent being a referendum in 1998 that failed to secure the required two-thirds majority for secession.

The council passed resolutions calling for Northern Rhodesia's secession from the federation and demanding full internal self-government under a new constitution and a new national assembly based on a broader, more democratic franchise.

The group declared secession from the United States and announced their intent to join the Confederate States of America under the name of the Arizona Territory.

Two sets of extremists had arisen: Northerners who demanded no new slave territories under any circumstances, and Southerners who demanded free entry for slavery into all territories, the penalty for denial to be secession.

* In the Riau archipelago: sultanate of Lingga-Riau by secession in 1818 under the expelled sultan of Johore ( on Malaya ) Sultan Abdul Rahman Muadzam Syah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud

The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native population of Egypt, leading to the secession of Upper Egypt under pharaohs Harmachis ( also known as Hugronaphor ) and Ankmachis ( also known as Chaonnophris ), thus creating a kingdom that occupied much of the country and lasted nearly twenty years.

In his 1991 book Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec, philosophy professor Allen Buchanan outlined limited rights to secession under certain circumstances, mostly related to oppression by people of other ethnic or racial groups, and especially those previously conquered by other peoples.

Allen Buchanan, who supports secession under limited circumstances, lists arguments that might be used against secession:

Once the election returns were certain, a special South Carolina convention declared " that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the ' United States of America ' is hereby dissolved ", heralding the secession of six more cotton states by February, and the formation of an independent nation, the Confederate States of America.

The Clarity Act ( known as Bill C-20 before it became law ) is legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada that established the conditions under which the Government of Canada would enter into negotiations that might lead to secession following such a vote by one of the provinces.

In this regard, is there a right to self-determination under international law that would give the National Assembly, legislature or government of Quebec the right to effect the secession of Quebec from Canada unilaterally?

After the secession of Belgium in 1830, the Orangist sentiment in Flanders for a time sought the restoration of the United Kingdom under the house of Orange.

On March 16 the convention adopted a secession ordinance citing the region's common interests and geography with the Confederacy, the need of frontier protection and the loss of postal service routes under the United States government as reasons for their separation.

217 was an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of a unilateral secession of Quebec from Canada.

In this regard, is there a right to self-determination under international law that would give the National Assembly, legislature or government of Quebec the right to effect the secession of Quebec from Canada unilaterally?

First, they stated that under the Canadian Constitution ( and with Quebec being a party to it since its inception ), unilateral secession was not legal.

The answer to the second question, which concerned Quebec's right under international law to secede, gave the opinion that the international law on secession was not applicable to the situation of Quebec.

West Virginia's secession from Virginia on June 20, 1863 recognized existing Virginia charters ; Bethany College continues to operate under the Virginia charter today.

Welensky was opposed to any talk of secession, and the Monckton Report suggested it in writing when it stated that the territories should have the option after five years under a new federal constitution.

Kentucky and Missouri both held secession conventions and seceded while under Federal occupation.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.

A few weeks before the war, he went so far as to pen a letter to every governor asking for their support in ratifying the Corwin Amendment as a means to avoid secession.

Eleven southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (" the Confederacy "); the other 25 states supported the federal government (" the Union ").

After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

To overcome the political barrier of nationalism, Lenin said it was necessary to acknowledge the existence of nationalism among oppressed peoples, and to guarantee their national independence, as the right of secession ; and that, based upon national self-determination, it was natural for socialist states to transcend nationalism and form a federation.

Shortly after, the Tuareg separatists were sidelined by Islamist groups associated with Al-Qaeda, and dropped their demands for secession.

Another difference is that Soviet Union faced strong secession threats from their ethnic regions, while China faced arguably less.

While opposing secession, the Government acknowledged the constitutional rights of Nevisians to determine their future independence.

Since the early 1990s, the legitimatization of the principle of national self-determination has led to an increase in the number of conflicts within states, as sub-groups seek greater self-determination and even full secession, and as their conflicts for leadership within groups and with other groups and with the dominant state become violent.

Most sovereign states do not recognize the right to self-determination through secession in their constitutions.

In the last chapter of The Dispossessed, we learn that the Hainish people arrived at Tau Ceti 60 years ago, which is more than 150 years after the secession of the Odonians from Urras and their exodus to Anarres.

In 1977, distressed over losing their guaranteed seat in the Massachusetts General Court, inhabitants of Martha's Vineyard considered the possibility of secession from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, either to become part of another state ( having received offers from both Vermont and Hawai ' i ), reincorporating as a separate U. S. territory, or as the nation's 51st state.

Although in previous reigns, younger sons of Savoy had been granted rich appanages in Switzerland ( Genevois, Vaud ), Italy ( Aosta ), or France ( Nemours, Bresse ), the Savoy dukes found that this inhibited their own aggrandizement while encouraging intra-dynastic strife and regional secession.

Although in previous reigns, younger sons had been granted rich appanages in Switzerland ( Genevois, Vaud ), Italy ( Aosta ), or France ( Nemours, Bresse ), the Savoy dukes found that this inhibited their own aggrandizement while encouraging intra-dynastic strife and regional secession.

Leverett concludes that while " few of these people had any real stake in the great economic and political issues that precipitated the war and that most of them opposed the political policy of secession the South from the Union ", " the threat of coercion of the South by the North galvanized the loyalties of Jones Countians to their region and their way of life.

The second concerns the successful secession of two households from the city because the City of Omer was charging them a water tax while refusing to deliver water service to their property.

In 1997, in order to change what were considered unequal fishing regulations between the U. S. and Canada, Angle Township resident Gary Dietzler utilized this cartographical mishap to implement a mock secession from the United States, going so far as to get a bill issued by their Congressman Collin Peterson ( D ) in the U. S. House of Representatives.

* Democratic Secessionism: the right of secession, as a variant of the right of self-determination, is vested in a " territorial community " which wishes to secede from " their existing political community "; the group wishing to secede then proceeds to delimit " its " territory by the majority.

The reality is today, that although " South Islanders " are most proud of their geographic region, secession does not carry any real constituency, the party was not able to field any candidates in the 2008 election due to being unable to enlist 500 paying members a requirement by the New Zealand Electoral commission.

In 1993, leading into South Africa's first elections of universal suffrage and the end of Apartheid, the Natal and Cape regions called for their secession from South Africa.

Spain ( known officially as " the Kingdom of Spain ") was assembled in the 15th century from various component kingdoms, of which Portugal seceded in the Portuguese Restoration War while other component kingdoms lost their secession wars.