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	Freetown Historical Commission - Lexicon of Freetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		East Freetown, (or New Freetown) was annexed from Tiverton in 1747.
		Gilbert, Thomas was born in Freetown in 1714.
		The vote in Freetown was 140 yes and 22 no, and in Lakeville 160 yes and 90 no. Freetown appropriated $20,347.00 and Lakeville $18,152.00 for the preliminary planning of the school.
	town.freetown.ma.us /cul/hist/lexicon/index.shtml (4877 words)

	Freetown
		The Town of Freetown is a pastoral community in Bristol County with a small summer colony and a maritime history.
		One of the state's first trout hatcheries was established in Freetown, and in the 1870's railroad dining cars and the luxurious dining rooms of ocean liners were serving Freetown trout.
		Freetown's position at the head of a tidewater made it the closest port to the iron-producing towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, encouraging iron foundries and nails works as well as shipyards.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/county/bristol/newbedford/freetown.htm (326 words)

	Freetown Historical Commission - Lexicon of Freetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		East Freetown, (or New Freetown) was annexed from Tiverton in 1747.
		Freetown and Lakeville voted for the school, and Berkley and Rochester voted against it.
		The vote in Freetown was 140 yes and 22 no, and in Lakeville 160 yes and 90 no. Freetown appropriated $20,347.00 and Lakeville $18,152.00 for the preliminary planning of the school.
	www.town.freetown.ma.us /cul/hist/lexicon/index.shtml (4877 words)

	Freetown, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freetown is one of the oldest communities in the United States, having been settled by the Pilgrims and their descendants in the latter half of the 17th century.
		Freetown was first settled on April 2, 1659 on the banks of the Assonet River, when the areas of Assonet and Fall River were purchased from the Wampanoag Indians in an exchange known as Ye Freemen's Purchase.
		Freetown is governed in the traditional New England style with a Board of Selectmen overseeing day-to-day operations of the town and at least one town meeting per year to handle all major decisions including, but not limited to, budgets, by-laws, and zoning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown,_Massachusetts (2819 words)

	Federal Period (1775-1830)
		While the Battle of Freetown did not actually take place in present-day Freetown, its leader was an important resident of the district.
		Freetown's stock of munitions, vulnerable to the "mobcrats", was saved by Captain Benjamin Weaver and the First Company, (Assonet) militia.
		Before the Revolution the residents of East Freetown were mainly Whigs while the generally wealthier residents of Assonet were conservative Tories/Loyalists, ready to resist the growing nationalism of the Patriots.
	www.assonetriver.com /preservation/dist_period.asp?P=FED (3858 words)

	Strategic Points Group: Freetown Real Estate: Freetown Massachusetts Real Estate Community Profile
		Freetown is a pastoral community located in Bristol County, MA with a small summer colony and a maritime history.
		Freetown is bordered by Berkley and Lakeville on the north; Rochester on the east; Acushnet, New Bedford, and Dartmouth on the south; and Fall River on the southwest.
		Freetown has mostly single family homes, prices range from $150,000-750,000+ with an average 4 bedroom Freetown home selling in the $180,000-275,000 range depending on the amount of land and the size of the home.
	www.strategicpointsgroup.com /Massachusetts/Freetown.asp (694 words)

	Descendants of Thomas Durfee
		Helen Thomas of East Freetown, Bristol County, MA, in 1985, states that the marriage was February 17, 1732/33, and that February 10 was the date of their intentions to marry (banns).
		Benjamin was selectman of Freetown from 1785, to 1792, and in 1795, and 1796.
		The Battle of Rhode Island was fought on August 29, 1778 in the bunkers and garrisons surrounding Newport, Rhode Island.
	bruce.graham.free.fr /family/genealogy/durfee.htm (15867 words)

	Battle of Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Freetown was a skirmish between American colonists and a British naval ship during the American Revolutionary War.
		Although Freetown was known as a [[Tory stronghold, many townspeople were becoming more engaged in the separation efforts by 1776.
		The Freetown minutemen were aided by other colonist minutemen from the Tiverton outpost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Freetown (270 words)

	Cry Freetown: “Watch ‘Cry Freetown’ and cry”
		Freetown - It is a story of corruption, greed, violence and lust for power.
		On the whole, "Cry Freetown" should be kept for posterity so that our coming generation would sit down in their quiet moment and reflect on the barbaric nature of their ancestors.
		Cry Freetown is indeed a crying scenario that unravels the hypocritical double standards of the Western powers who failed to stop the carnage from escalating to the level portrayed, and at the same time, the heartless disregard that Sierra Leoneans have for their kin and kith.
	www.cryfreetown.org /concord2.html (1161 words)

	FREETOWN Shackled by Garbage
		As Freetown enters the peak of the rainy season, the problems posed by rubbish heaps are likely to get worse.
		Freetown's unending battle with garbage has even prompted local musicians to join the fray.
		A war crimes tribunal in Freetown is currently trying those alleged of bearing the greatest responsibility for these crimes.
	www.visitsierraleone.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=116 (886 words)

	Case Study
		The AFRC/RUF infiltrated forces into Freetown catching ECOMOG by surprise, resulting in another brutal battle in Freetown.
		Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, has been the sight of several major battles, causing many civilian fatalities.
		The RUF retains possession of the countryside, including many of the important diamond producing areas, yet is not strong enough to attack Freetown.
	www.american.edu /TED/ice/diamond-sl.htm (2977 words)

	Battle of Adowa
		The outcome of the battle, the greatest victory of an African over a European army since the time of Hannibal, was of major significance in the history of Europe’s relations with Africa.
		During the battle to resist the consolidation of British Imperialism the West African intelligentsia increasingly took part in Pan-African activity.
		The Battle of Adowa and the struggle to maintain and regain independence in the Gold Coast must have figured into the epic memory of those that were Nkrumah’s first educators.
	www.lincoln.edu /history/his304/Battles-of-Adowa-Abyssinia-Asante.htm (8501 words)

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		The battle for Freetown and the ensuing three week rebel occupation of the capital was characterized by the systematic and widespread perpetration of all classes of atrocities against the civilian population, of over one million inhabitants, and marked the most intensive and concentrated period of human rights violations in Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war.
		Freetown's largest hospital was turned into a temporary rebel base for hundreds of combatants.
		While the RUF committed the vast majority of atrocities and other violations of international humanitarian law during the battle for Freetown, those defending the capital also committed serious abuses, both during and after the rebel incursion.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/sierra/SIERLE99.htm (2894 words)

	East Freetown, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Freetown, Massachusetts is one of two villages within the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, USA, in Bristol County.
		East Freetown was made a part of Freetown as a result of the Pocasset Purchase of 1747.
		From the early 1800s until 1950, Freetown was serviced by several neighborhood grammar schools, several of which existed in East Freetown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Freetown,_Massachusetts (721 words)

	Sierra Leone Analysis - mattagee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After the January 1999 assault on the capitol Freetown, a failed peace agreement between the RUF and the government of Sierra Leone has given Sankoh legal control of the minerals (including diamonds), as well as granting amnesty for the atrocities committed during the was to that point.
		Speaking against the elite governing class of Freetown, which had neglected the rural population for decades, Sankoh was able to convey a successful revolutionary message to the impoverished people of the south.
		At the same time as this, the largest and bloodiest battle of the 9-year-old civil war was being fought, the world’s eyes laid on a similar conflict in the heart of Europe where video cameras and news reporters literally bumped into one another in search of a story.
	www.mattagee.com /sl2.htm (6204 words)

	Joyce D. Lopes Realty Corp. & The Village, Realtors - GMAC Real Estate
		The town’s early economy was based mostly on agriculture, but the water power of the Assonet River eventually brought grist, saw and fulling mills after 1696 and in the late 18th century the town’s industries included a tannery.
		Freetown’s position at the lead of a tidewater made it the closest port to the iron-producing towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, encouraging iron foundries and nails works as well as shipyards.
		By the end of the century, much of the land that had been farmed was returning to forest as Freetown gained some of its pre-Colonial rural landscape.
	www.joycedlopesrealty.com /communities-freetown.htm (265 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		Fighting was already under way in the capital Freetown as an initial force of 250 British troops flew in from neighbouring Senegal.
		The battle erupted after at least 15 people were shot and wounded when thousands of peace protesters marched to the house.
		The dozens of UN peacekeepers guarding the house appeared overwhelmed by the crowds, pushing back against them and shouting ineffectively as the mob advanced, with some yelling that Sankoh should be beheaded and castrated.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/09052000/News/News0.html (533 words)

	tribuneindia... World
		FREETOWN, Jan 13 — Sierra Leone’s detained rebel leader has set out his conditions for a ceasefire in the battle of Freetown after he was flown to neighbouring Guinea for secret talks, a senior UN officials said.
		FREETOWN, Jan 13 (Reuters) — Sierra Leone’s detained rebel leader has set out his conditions for a ceasefire in the battle of Freetown after he was flown to neighbouring Guinea for secret talks, a senior UN officials said.
		Sankoh was flown from war-torn Freetown where he is held by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s government and Ecomog, the Nigerian-led West African force fighting the RUF rebels.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jan14/world.htm (2881 words)

	Sierra Leone: Chronology
		Yet, it appears that the street-children of Freetown are being armed and set loose in the country's provinces, where, to survive, they quickly adopt RUF tactics to live off the civilian population.
		In March, Kabbah returns to Freetown, but is still faced with the military threat of the undefeated RUF rebels and renegade AFRC soldiers, many of whom have retreated into the north of the country, where the civil defence movement is weakest.
		By mid-December 1998, despite rebel attacks within fifty kilometres of Freetown and a spate of attacks in the east and north of the country, President Kabbah tells Freetown residents in a radio broadcast there is no reason to panic.
	www.c-r.org /our-work/accord/sierra-leone/chronology.php (3713 words)

	Unique Court to Try Killers of Sierra Leone - Global Policy Forum - International Justice
		The announcement in Freetown came days after the UN officially declared the 10-year conflict over, as the last of 47,000 combatants handed in their weapons.
		The Freetown tribunal, to be called the Special Court, will also be the first where UN and local judges sit side by side.
		That kept the RUF from seizing Freetown and led to the revival of the Sierra Leone army, which eventually forced the rebels to agree to end the war and disarm.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/tribunals/2002/0117.htm (801 words)

	CNN - Cry Freetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Captured and threatened by the rebels, Samura, escaped and during the next few days, while battle raged between rebel and Nigerian 'peacekeeping' forces in his country's civil war, Samura took his handheld camera and captured on video some of the atrocities committed by both sides as almost every-day acts of war.
		Now the award-winning cameraman returns to Sierra Leone in Cry Freetown to relive the story of the country's civil war that he risked his life to document.
		Cry Freetown includes much of the graphic and disturbing footage that Samura shot last year - and raises important questions about how much of the reality of war should be shown on television.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /CNNPromos/cnn/cry.freetown (556 words)

	Christians Targeted in Sierra Leone
		FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Compass) -- Rebel soldiers have targeted Christians and churches of various denominations during the past year as this West African country's civil war, one of the region's bloodiest conflicts, shows few signs of abating.
		The rebels burned at least 20 churches in Freetown, including the Church of God on Circular Road and Holy Trinity Church on Kissiy Road.
		Freetown was originally bought by the British to resettle former slaves.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-sierra-leone.html (804 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Double attack on Freetown rebels
		The offensive came as the Archbishop of Freetown, Joseph Ganda, and four missionaries escaped from rebels, who were holding them hostage.
		Nigerian soldiers in the West African intervention force, Ecomog, are moving east from Freetown city centre while troops from Guinea are approaching the eastern suburbs from the other side.
		Foreign aid workers were evacuated to escape the three-week battle for Freetown.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/261013.stm (350 words)

	Guardian \| Britain rejects call to join UN peacekeepers in Sierra Leone
		Senior ministers are expected to hold a crisis meeting today to confront the dilemma Britain faces: getting involved in a war that cannot be won, or suffering the opprobrium that will come if UN peacekeepers are left in the lurch by British paratroopers sent to Sierra Leone to oversee an evacuation of expatriates.
		If the strife in Sierra Leone intensifies into a battle for Freetown, the UN admitted yesterday its forces might have to fight.
		The RUF was said to be 25 miles from Freetown and up to 10,000 people were estimated to be on the move from Waterloo, 18 miles away - the rebels' likely next target.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4016929-103681,00.html (457 words)

	Sierra Leone: Humanitarian Crisis
		Most of the population of Freetown was desperately poor before the fighting; many may now suffer from life-threatening shortages of food, water, and medical care.
		Gaining access for humanitarian aid to Freetown is a first step; establishing secure routes or humanitarian corridors to other parts of the country would be a second step.
		Allegations of excessive force being used by ECOMOG in the battle for Freetown are extremely worrisome.
	www.africaaction.org /docs99/sl9901.htm (2072 words)

	Obituary for General Maxwell Khobe - BBC West Africa Correspondent Mark Doyle, 22 April 2000 - Sierra Leone Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Early last year I was in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, when rebels were trying to oust the elected government.
		In the middle of that fierce battle for Freetown, Maxwell Khobe briefly lent the foreign press corps his only helicopter so that we could evacuate our colleague’s body.
		According to a soldier who was there, he looked at the smoking battle front and then began walking towards it saying, cool as a cucumber, "Gentlemen, let’s go." Analysts will no doubt debate Khobe’s military record for years to come.
	sierra-leone.org /doyle1.html (661 words)

	BBC News \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Covering the battle for Freetown
		It was fierce house-to-house battles, until the Nigerians succeeded in clearing most of the rebels out of central Freetown.
		Throughout the battle it was firmly in the hands of the Ecomog troops who, with a mandate from the United Nations and partly paid for by Britain, are defending the elected Sierra Leone government against the rebels.
		Anyone who did not wave a white handkerchief as a sign of support for the rebels, some of whom were boys as young as eight, risked being shot or having their house burned down.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/257697.stm (963 words)

	Sierra Leone: The Lomé peace negotiations
		For ECOWAS, the Freetown attack dented the prestige of its ECOMOG peacekeeping force by reviving criticisms of the effectiveness of the regional peacekeeping mechanism.
		On the alliance's plus side, the Freetown attack had weakened the government and strengthened its own case as a force to be reckoned with.
		I was captured in Freetown during the AFRC coup by the Sierra Leone Army and taken to Kono where I was trained to use a gun – an AK-47.
	www.c-r.org /our-work/accord/sierra-leone/lome-negotiations.php (4519 words)

	The Rory Peck Trust: The Free Lens
		He was filming all the way through the battle for Freetown,’ the Nigerian added.
		Sorious turned out to be a quiet-spoken and exceptionally modest man, even when describing how he had been trapped behind rebel lines and had then managed to link up with ECOMOG and film some of the most chilling and terrifying combat footage seen for quite some time.
		The close-up combat footage of Nigerian troops battling on the streets of Freetown and of terrified civilians fleeing through the fighting required Sorious to place himself in the thick of the action.
	www.rorypecktrust.org /award97/keane2.htm (417 words)

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