Thousands of French refugees, fleeing the slave rebellion in Saint Domingue, brought slaves and expertise in sugar refining and coffee growing into eastern Cuba in the 1790 and early 19th century.

Thousands of slaves found freedom by fleeing from their masters, forming communities of maroons and raiding isolated plantations.

Thousands of slaves found freedom by fleeing into the mountains, forming communities of maroons and raiding isolated plantations.

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs, fleeing towns captured by Israel, settled in refugee camps around Nablus and in Nablus itself.

Thousands of Greek refugees streamed to the coast from all parts of Anatolia, fleeing from the revenge of the Turks.

Thousands of years ago the long-lived Gardenborn arrived in the land, fleeing a cataclysm.

Thousands of Basque refugees fleeing Spanish Civil War on 1939 also settled and have many descendants in the country and have even intermarried with, other Spanish ethnic groups other than Castilians, and other European ethnic groups.

Thousands more perished in Bratsigovo, Perushtitsa and other rebel villages which are also burnt and looted.

Thousands of livestock perished.

Thousands of Africans and Boer women and children were forcibly moved from their land into concentration camps, where some 40, 000 people perished.

Thousands of British, Dutch and Australian nationals perished in the railway's prisoner of war construction camps during World War II, and the railway's construction served as the inspiration for the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Thousands more perished in the Ponary massacre, in German concentration camps, and in ghettos.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Thousands of cattle and wild animals were also asphyxiated, but no official counts were made.

Thousands of Madison residents commute to Cummings Research Park and Redstone Arsenal in nearby Huntsville.

Thousands of nearby city residents attend the Carver County Fair which is held in Waconia.

Thousands of tourists visit the city and nearby islands including Qeshm and Hormuz every year.

* Thousands of individuals were exposed at Fort McClellan Alabama, when a chemical weapons training center and a nearby Monsanto factory disposed of chemicals into a west Anniston creek over several decades.

Thousands of feet of evaporites ( anhydrite and gypsum then halite ) started to build up in the Mid Pennsylvanian and storms occasionally washed sediment from the nearby mountains.

Thousands of villagers migrated to this town from nearby villages in the rapid urbanization of post-independence India, and this has created serious infrastructure problem.

Thousands of people from nearby villages and the natives of Koduvayur from different parts of the globe along with their family and friends gather here for the car festival.

Thousands of Paleolithic-era artifacts have been recovered from the nearby area of Ca ’ Belvedere ( for Casa Belvedere ) and dated to around 850, 000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of human habitation in Italy.