These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.

During and after World War II, freed PoWs went to special " filtration " camps.

During Reconstruction after the Civil War, Republican state governments had militias composed almost entirely of freed slaves and populist whites.

After the Civil War, turmoil continued in Reconstruction, with the rise of white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the issue of granting Civil Rights to freed blacks.

It was the position of the United States government in the 1950s that Raeder should be freed, ostensibly for reasons of health, but in fact because of the demands of the Cold War and the need to integrate West Germany into NATO.

The city of Freetown was founded in 1792 by Abolitionist John Clarkson as a land for freed African American slaves, called the Nova Scotian who had fought on the side with British during the American Revolutionary War.

The southern portion of the land now occupied by the cemetery was used during and after the Civil War as a settlement for freed slaves.

More than 1, 100 freed slaves were given land at Freedman's Village by the government, where they farmed and lived during and after the Civil War.

Sierra Leone, founded by the British to serve as a colony for freed slaves, has a Creole ethnic group whose ancestors migrated from Canada, where many were Americans who had fought with the British and settled there after the American Revolutionary War ; the British West Indies, and various parts of West Africa.

After the end of the American Civil War, historic Hampton University was established here, providing an education for many of the newly freed former slaves.

Violence in the United States against African Americans, especially in the South, rose in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men were given the right to vote.

The outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 led to notable growth in the District's population due to the expansion of the federal government and a large influx of freed slaves.

After the American Civil War ended in 1865, Yulee was imprisoned, the slaves were freed and the site was abandoned.

The Bleeding Kansas affair and the upcoming Civil War brought John Brown, the famous liberator, to this area with an attack on the Lawrence farm, 5 miles south of Hume, in which slaves were freed.

The town was used to relocate former slaves, in part the work of Gerrit Smith, an abolitionist, and in part the result of Civil War veterans inviting freed slaves to return home with them.

It was established by freed slaves after the Civil War and incorporated in 1885.

The site was first settled by freed slaves just after the Civil War.

Soon after the Civil War, freed slaves from farms and plantations settled in Giddings.

Crossroads remained until the beginning of the Civil War when the freed blacks either escaped or were recaptured.

Nancy was freed from Nazi Germany by the U. S. Third Army in September 1944, during the Lorraine Campaign of World War II ( see Battle of Nancy ( 1944 )).

During the Second World War Wervik was again occupied by German troops, until the inhabitants were freed in 1944 by Canadian soldiers.

To `` Monty '', the American people, who in two previous world wars were very reluctant to join the fight, `` now look like the nation most likely to lead us all into a third World War ''.

* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.

He then wrote a seven-volume account in Greek known to us as the Jewish War ( Latin Bellum Judaicum or De Bello Judaico ).

Under the guise of protecting allies, Bickerman tells us, Rome was actually looking to expand its power and control eastward now that the Second Punic War was ended.

About this Second Anglo-Dutch War Pepys wrote: " In all things, in wisdom, courage, force and success, the Dutch have the best of us and do end the war with victory on their side ".

Legend tells us that the long and arduous Trojan War, although nominally a Greek victory, brought anarchy, piracy, and ruin ; already before the Greek fleet set sail for Troy, the conflict had divided the gods as well, and this contributed to curses and acts of vengeance following many of the Greek heroes.

He predicted that " bad " Germans would reemerge, who might seek to regain former German territory lost after World War II and would likely dominate Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, leaving " only Romania and Bulgaria for the rest of us ".

It could have kept us out of World War I.

" The Cold War was World War III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map.

In his War Diaries in February 1948, Ben-Gurion wrote: " The war shall give us the land.

Caria arose as a Neo-Hittite kingdom around the 11th century BC. The coast of Caria was part of the Dorian hexapolis ( six-cities ) when the Dorians arrived after the Trojan War in the last and southernmost waves of Greek migration to western Anatolia's coastline and occupied former Mycenaean settlements such us Knidos and Halicarnassos ( present-day Bodrum ).

In this documentary he referred to the Vietnam War and he said, " None of our allies supported us.

" The effects of the Great Depression in Scotland, and the subsequent high emigration from that country, also led Buchan to reflect in the same speech: " We do not want to be like the Greeks, powerful and prosperous wherever we settle, but with a dead Greece behind us ," and he found himself profoundly affected by John Morley's Life of Gladstone, which Buchan read in the early months of the Second World War.

In February 2000, the Salvation Army publicly ( in their publication known as " War Cry " and in a letter to a Scottish Parliament committee ) opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act ( 1988 ) However, The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland website refers to the organisation offering ' unconditional assistance and support regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual choices, respecting the identity and choices of all those referred to them .... As well as having a right to be dealt with professionally, people can expect from us encouragement and a respect for their individual beliefs, ambitions and preferences.

In his new, autobiographical film, he has had the inspiration to desentimentalise wartime England and show us the Second World War the way he saw it as an eight year old.

In 1940, World War II began to become a threat to us.

In Le docteur Pascal ( set in 1872 ), Zola tells us that Eugène becomes a deputy in the legislative assembly and remains a staunch defender of the Emperor and the Empire after the Franco-Prussian War.

Sallust's account of the Catiline conspiracy ( De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae ) and of the Jugurthine War ( Bellum Iugurthinum ) have come down to us complete, together with fragments of his larger and most important work ( Historiae ), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC, intended as a continuation of Cornelius Sisenna's work.

For example, a universe where World War II ended differently would be “ closer ” to us than one where Imperial China colonized the New World in the 15th century.

The Gud med oss ( God be with us ) coat-of-arms created in 1665 shows a knight standing on a mountain, yellow on a blue background and was inspired the bravery of the citizens of the city in the Dano-Swedish War ( 1658 – 1660 ).

He disagreed with German surrender at the end of World War I, believing German Empire should continue the fight writing " the most the Allies can do is to destroy us "

Clemenceau said ...‘ I am totally opposed to you – we both recognise a great danger and you are ... reducing your army and weakening your navy .’ ‘ Ah ’ said Bannerman ‘ but that is for economy !’... then said that he thought the English ought to have some kind of military service, at which Bannerman nearly fainted ...‘ It comes to this ’ said Clemenceau ‘ in the event of your supporting us against Germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our War Offices and to land 110, 000 men on the coast while Italy marches with us in the ranks ?’ Then came the crowning touch of the interview.