*" When I marched in Selma, my legs were praying.

When the enemy ’ s heavy forces marched on December 1762 and arrived at Harnamadi in January 1763, they found all the local houses already evacuated and the area short of food provisions.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance's armies marched into Beijing, Cixi fled the capital only to accept peace terms by paying the foreign powers huge amounts of silver.

When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of their house, Parks recalls her grandfather guarding the front door with a shotgun.

When he and other people marched in front of the White House, the State Department and Independence Hall only five years earlier, their objective was to look as if they could work for the U. S. government.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

When William marched north and the two armies confronted one another the kings opted to talk rather than fight.

When the German Army marched into France in 1940 during World War II, the Nazis seized the prints and negative of the film, chiefly because of its anti-war message, and what were perceived as ideological criticisms pointed towards Germany on the eve of the Second World War.

When Julius Caesar marched on Rome with legio XIII, he ordered his legate Gaius Fabius to march on Iberia and to secure the passes through the Pyrenees.

When two of Fabius ' legions marched out to protect foragers and crossed the Segre, the bridge gave way, cutting off the small force.

When the Argives ( of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes or Statius ' Thebaid ) marched against Thebes, they met Hypsipyle and made her show them a fountain where they could get water.

When WW2 broke out, the old IRA and old Fianna organisations marched as a body to Griffith Barracks in Dublin and they joined the Irish Army there as a separate battalion.

When the Wehrmacht marched into Holland in 1940 Osendarp became a member of the volunteer SS and an employee of the Nazi Security Police, helping in the deportation of Dutch Jews.

When they failed to return home, a much larger force of militia marched on Nevada.

When Gaye's father marched upstairs to argue with Gaye's mother, Gaye began physically dominating his father, shoving him, knocking him down and kicking him.

When the princes arrived, Peter joined their ranks as a member of council in May 1097, and with the little following which remained they marched together through Asia Minor to Jerusalem.

When they finished in Tirano, they marched to Teglio, Sondrio and further down the valley killing every Protestant that they found.

When he marched on Port Royal though, a British force took over the position and negotiated his surrender in return for amnesty.

When the Revolution erupted in 1789, he became leader of the Jacobin Club in Besançon, and, when a regiment of volunteers of the départment of the Gard marched through the city, he was elected Lieutenant Colonel.

When the Anglo-Portuguese army laid siege to the city he marched to its rescue, and fought and nearly won the famous and very bloody Battle of Albuera on 16 May.

When it was clear that the British were not going to make an attempt on Ticonderoga in 1776, Gates marched some of the army south to join Washington's army in Pennsylvania, where it had retreated after the fall of New York City.

When the event took place during the evening, the military police marched forward and closed in on the demonstrators, then they retreated again to their original position.

When Richard III marched against the invader, Brackenbury hurried himself to reach the King and arrived two days before the Battle of Bosworth Field ( 22 August 1485 ), in which-according to Molinet and Lindsay-he had joint command of Richard's vanguard ; he took part in the final charge on Henry and was killed fighting beside Richard III.

When the slaughter began, and no escape was possible, the children of the city were formed in procession and marched across the market-place singing Luther's hymn: " Lord keep us steadfast in thy Word, Curb Pope and Turk who by the sword, would wrest the kingdom from thy Son, and set at naught all he hath done.

When they besieged the city of Sempach, troops from Zurich, Lucerne and the Forest Cantons marched out and defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Sempach.

When prisoners, the officers usually gave their parole and were only restricted to a city away from the theatre of war.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

When the prisoners were interrogated, it became clear that the information possessed by the guerrillas, who had planned to assassinate Stroessner, could have come only from a high Colorado official.

When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.

When the jailer awoke, he prepared to kill himself, thinking all the prisoners had escaped and knowing that he would be severely punished.

When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20, 000 Russians became prisoners.

When Ensslin devised an " info system " using aliases for each member, the four prisoners were able to communicate again, circulating letters with the help of their defence counsels.

When World War I began in 1914, all political prisoners were relocated from Warsaw into Russia proper.

When he was informed of the massacres of Italian prisoners, Omar Bradley told Patton that U. S. troops had murdered some 50 – 70 prisoners in cold blood.

When the team was unable to find a way to extract their two prisoners, they decided to wait for a mob of pro-Ayatollah revolutionaries to storm the jail and free all 10, 000 inmates, many of whom were political prisoners.

When the Buchenwald camp was evacuated, the SS sent the male prisoners to other camps, and the five-hundred remaining women ( including one of the secret annexe members who lived with Anne Frank, " Mrs. van Daan ", real name Auguste van Pels ) were taken by train and on foot to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

When Debs was released from the Atlanta Penitentiary, the other prisoners sent him off with " a roar of cheers " and a crowd of 50, 000 greeted his return to Terre Haute to the accompaniment of band music.

When the Soviets arrived they in general took all German prisoners back to a Gulag in Soviet Union where life expectancy was about five years.

When the human prisoners are threatened by the Ewoks, Luke levitates the droid above the crowd as demonstration of the supposed god's ability, so as to prompt release.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated.

When the Bishop of Valence and Charles de La Rochefoucault, sieur of Randan, sent by the king to negotiate, arrived in Scotland they were almost treated like prisoners.

When the film was released, the U. S. government's Office of Censorship declined to approve it for export overseas during wartime, because of the " long sequence showing life in a prison chain gang which is most objectionable because of the brutality and inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated.

When the crocodile appears, Hook flees to his office while telling Smee to have their prisoners walk the plank.

When Sir Ralph Abercromby communicated in 1796 that he was transferring 4, 000 prisoners from the West Indies, the Board began the search for a site for a new prison.

According to R. J. Rummel, " Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died, hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain.

When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.