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Maseru was founded by the British as a small police camp in 1869, following the conclusion of the Free State–Basotho Wars when Basutoland became a British protectorate. [3] [4] [5] Maseru is located at the edge of the "conquered territories" relinquished to the Orange Free State (now the Free State province of South Africa) as part of the peace terms.
The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
Lesotho covers 30,355 km 2 (11,720 sq mi). It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation. Its lowest point of 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) is thus the highest lowest point of any country in the world. Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800 metres (5,906 ft).
These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [1] Fort McDowell/Angel Island, California. Camp Blanding, Florida. Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Florence, Arizona. Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas.
Colonia Dignidad. / 36.38694°S 71.58806°W / -36.38694; -71.58806. Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') was an isolated colony established in post- World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s ...
People Nation: Founded in Midwestern and Southern states, allied with Bloods, bitter rivals with the Folk Nation. D.C. Blacks: Founded in Washington D.C. by African American inmates, are allied with the Black Guerilla Family and United Blood Nation, and enemies to the Aryan Brotherhood and Mexican Mafia.
The fort gave The Battery(in present-day Manhattan) its name, the large street going from the fort past the wall became Broadway, and the city wall (right) gave Wall Streetits name. New Amsterdam(Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam, pronounced[ˌniu.ɑmstərˈdɑm]) was a 17th-century Dutch settlementestablished at the southern tip of ManhattanIsland that ...
Finally, since the early 1970s, the United States has engaged in a historically unprecedented expansion of its imprisonment systems at both the federal and state level. Since 1973, the number of incarcerated persons in the United States has increased five-fold. Now, about 2,200,000 people, or 3.2 percent of the adult population, are imprisoned ...