When the English captured pre-existing colonies they continued to allow the local settlers to keep their civil law.

When the settlers protested his language Allen continued the tirade, threatening to send any troops from New York to Hell.

When he returned in 1493 on his second voyage he found the settlement had been destroyed and all 39 settlers killed.

When the settlers brought iron, Native Americans switched to iron hoes and hatchets.

When Bradburn arrested Travis on suspicion of plotting an insurrection, settlers rebelled.

* When Quebec was first established its settlers depended on supplies sent from France.

When the reefs to the East of Bermuda were spotted, the ship was deliberately driven on them to prevent its sinking, thereby saving all aboard ( 150 sailors and settlers, and one dog ).

When European American white settlers first arrived in the Owens Valley in the mid – 19th century, they found a number of large Paiute villages in the Manzanar area.

When that effort failed, most of the settlers, including the Bryce family, left the area.

When emigration over the Oregon Trail began in earnest in about 1836, for many settlers the fort became the last stop on the Oregon Trail where they could get supplies, aid and help before starting their homestead.

When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy — notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap ( but not free ) lands for settlers.

When settlers began to arrive, a system of law and order was already in place and the Dakota lawlessness for which the American " Wild West " was famed did not occur in Canada.

When Oregon City was founded and people began moving to the area, they petitioned their governments to remove the local aboriginals from the land, so that European settlers could have land to farm and live on.

When English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, they soon came into conflict with the Native Americans ( whom they called " Indians ") as the newcomers competed for land, game and other resources.

When Gloucester was formed in 1651 from part of York County the early settlers brought these soft reminders of English springs as they established themselves in the area.

When the first permanent European settlers came to Wayne County around the year 1800, the area was part of Kanawha County.

When railroads arrived they also brought new settlers, and the economy began a shift from ranching to dryland farming.

When the camp was abandoned, most of the settlers moved east into a line of forts that offered protection from the Northern Comanche Indians.

When European explorers and settlers first arrived in the area it became part of New France, Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians were the principal inhabitants.

When hardy Winter wheat was introduced to Kansas by Russian settlers, it eventually became the predominant crop in Smith County.

When the county seat was named Abbeville the early settlers paid respect to their earlier home in Abbeville, South Carolina.

When in June 1812, the U. S. declared war on Britain, the Upper Creek lost the assistance of the British ; but they persisted with war against American settlers in the area.

When the American prairies were plowed under by European settlers for agriculture, many mound sites were lost.

When the papers came back from Washington, they had read it Cornville, so the settlers accepted the name.

When settlers from the east began to arrive in south Arkansas, the land was inhabited by the indigenous tribe known as the Quapaw.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When an occurrence Af is isolated during text reading, a random memory address Af, the address of a cell in the X-region, is computed from the form of Af.

When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

When Christie's daughter, Rosalind Hicks, observed Ustinov during a rehearsal, she said, " That's not Poirot!

When heated to form a solution and then cooled quickly, these alloys become much softer than normal, during the diffusionless transformation, and then harden as they age.

When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.

When played back forward the last echos are heard before the effected sound creating a rush like swell preceding and during playback.

When Bern converted during the Protestant Reformation in 1528, the Unteraargau also converted.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles was not given a command and the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

When asked about the rumor during the launch of her endorsement of FLIRT!

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

When Ansgar asked if King Olof would permit him to establish the Christian religion in the kingdom during his second visit in 852, the king said to him:

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.

When the Communist Party of China took over power, previous schools of thought, excepting notably Legalism, were denounced as backward, and later even purged during the Cultural Revolution.