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Deportation

noun

The act of expelling a person from their native land. Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation. "His deportation to a penal colony" , "The expatriation of wealthy farmers" , "The sentence was one of transportation for life"

The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien.

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"Deportation" Quotes from Famous Books

... instructed to make arrangements for the deportation of a large proportion of the white and coloured population, Methuen hinting that Rhodes himself might be included. Although Rhodes had a few weeks before complained of the difficulties caused by the presence of non-combatants and had even ...

— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... by such glory. He commenced his operations by the expulsion of nearly all the Moorish inhabitants of Granada, bed-ridden men, women, and children, together, and the cruelty inflicted, the sufferings patiently endured in that memorable deportation, were enormous. But few of the many thousand exiles survived the horrid march, those who were so unfortunate as to do so being sold into slavery by their captors. Still a few Moors held out in their mountain ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... ordering that they should not admit into their churches the master-of-camp Don Juan de Vargas Hurtado, or the auditors, or many other persons and military officers who had a share in his banishment, or in the deportation of the Dominican ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898--Volume 39 of 55 • Various

... "We've complained to your Foreign Office, and within a week every Spanish conspirator will receive notice to quit Her Majesty's North American colonies on pain of instant arrest and deportation." ...

— His Lordship's Leopard - A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts • David Dwight Wells

... The deportation and dispersion of the French Neutrals from their Acadian homes at Grandpre, on the peninsula that projects into Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, was one of the most pitiful incidents in the French and Indian war, known as the American phase of the Seven Years' War. The region ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

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