Thousands starved or died of disease during the evacuation and its aftermath.

Thousands succumbed to a yellow fever during the summer months and more than half of the French army died because of disease.

Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.

Thousands of soldiers died in the city during the retreat ; the mass graves were uncovered in 2002.

Thousands died of drowning, starvation, or illness as a result of the deportation.

Thousands of prisoners held in appalling conditions in Nazi concentration camps such Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen also died of typhus during World War II, including Anne Frank at the age of 15 and her sister Margot.

Thousands of people died of starvation during the first half of the 20th century.

Thousands of combatants on both sides died in the fighting, alongside civilians, many of which were reportedly ethnic Russians ; unclaimed bodies were later collected and buried in mass graves on the city outskirts.

Thousands were dispatched for " re-education " in remote parts of the country, where many died and many more were kept for up to ten years.

" Thousands should have died, not hundreds ," he has said.

Thousands died in forced labor camps such as Lambinowice, Zgoda labour camp, Central Labour Camp Potulice, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, Glaz, Milecin, Gronowo, and Sikawa.

Thousands of Armenians died on the journey.

Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.

Thousands more died and were deported in fighting in eastern Slavonia, but the JNA was the principal actor in that part of the conflict.

Thousands of Nigerians of southern origin died as a result of the riot.

Thousands of warriors died and with the army decimated the generals had no choice but to return home.

Thousands died, and hundreds of thousands more fled, often into neighboring China.

Thousands of people have died in fighting since the passage of Sharia law in the Muslim dominated northern region after a return to civilian rule in 1999.

Thousands became ill, and some children died, after consuming the product.

Thousands of them died in disease epidemics common to the squalor of refugee camps, such as cholera and dysentery.

Thousands died or were arrived sick and were treated in the hospital ( equipped for less than one hundred patients ) in the summer of 1847 ; in fact, many boats that reached Grosse-Île had lost the bulk of their passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island.

Thousands of Irishmen did join ( particularly those from working class areas, where unemployment was high ) and many died in the war.

Thousands died in these marches.

Thousands of fleeing Bastarnae perished, many asphyxiated in nearby woods by encircling fires set by the Romans, others drowned trying to swim across the Danube.

Thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were also released.

* 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese ( and many who are not ) in Cronulla Sydney.

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

Thousands of people lost limbs during many stages of planting of land-mines.

Thousands of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with many more being created every year.

** Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Thousands of people were invited each year to receptions in the Paris city hall, while many political, media and artistic personalities were hosted in private flats owned by the city.

Thousands of Tutsi were forced to resign from such positions, and many were forced into exile.

Thousands of people were displaced by the disaster and many found shelter in the ruins.

Thousands of students, residents from the surrounding area and many from out of state, many armed, were involved.

Thousands of black men fought on the side of rebellious colonists in the American Revolutionary War, many in the new Continental Navy.

Thousands of Thai academics have been sent to train in Israel while many Thai schools have been modeled after Israel's experience and know-how with aid from Mashav.

Thousands of skilled and unskilled Thai workers are employed in Israel and many Thai students study in Israel.

Thousands of Spanish settlers also immigrated to Puerto Rico from the Canary Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, so many so that whole Puerto Rican villages and towns were founded by Canarian immigrants, and their descendants would later form a majority of the Spanish population on the island.

Thousands of acres of old-growth forest were harvested and floated down Loyalsock Creek and its tributaries to one of the many sawmills that had sprung up throughout Lycoming County.

Thousands upon thousands of these luminares lined the many blocks of Windcrest.

Thousands of Union troops marched in formation and paraded before President Abraham Lincoln, the northern press, and many onlookers from Washington.

Photography collector Michael Wilson observed " Thousands of commercial photographers and a hundred times as many amateurs were producing millions of photographs annually … The decline in the quality of professional work and the deluge of snapshots ( a term borrowed from hunting, meaning to get off a quick shot without taking the time to aim ) resulted in a world awash with technically good but aesthetically indifferent photographs.

Thousands of troops deserted and many more were captured.

Thousands of victims lay under a shroud of ashes, heaped in windrows several feet deep, caked by the rains ; many of these bodies were not retrieved for weeks, and few were identifiable.