The challenge Competition was accepted Receiving and widely disseminated Dispersal throughout the city , so that when Captain Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart of `` Embuscade '' sailed Self_motion out to meet Come_together Courtenay on the morning of 31 July , the shore was crowded Filling with thousands of sightseers .

An unprecedented Catastrophe manhunt Scouring for Dzhokhar ensued Coming_to_be on April 19 , with thousands of law enforcement officers searching Scrutiny a 20-block area of Watertown ; residents of Watertown and surrounding Surrounding communities were asked Request to stay indoors , and the transportation system and most businesses and public places closed Being_in_operation .

Loyalists also put up Placing thousands of Union flags in public places , which further heightened Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale tension Violence .

The Sinjar massacre was the genocidal killing Killing and abduction Kidnapping of thousands of Yazidi men in Sinjar ( `` Şingal '' ) city and Sinjar District in Iraq 's Nineveh Governorate by the Islamic terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIS ) in August 2014 .

The bloodshed , ethnic cleansing Emptying of thousands of Albanians driving Change them into neighbouring countries , and the potential of it to destabilize Cause_change_of_strength the region provoked Causation intervention by international organizations and agencies , such as the United Nations , NATO , and INGOs .

Annually , the celebrations in Ponta Delgada attract Influence thousands of Azoreans , Luso-descendants and peoples from the various islands of the archipelago to São Miguel .

Port-au-Prince 's morgues were overwhelmed Hindering with tens of thousands of bodies .

It involved Participation thousands of ships in more than 100 convoy Patrolling battles Hostile_encounter and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters Hostile_encounter , in a theatre Social_event covering Filling millions of square miles of ocean .

Government records put Placing the official death Death toll in the thousands but NGO 's say Telling more than 10,000 lives were lost Earnings_and_losses .

The day and night air battles Hostile_encounter over Germany during the war Hostile_encounter involved Participation thousands of aircraft , units and aerial engagements to counter Hostile_encounter the Allied strategic bombing Attack campaign .

In addition to the direct damages Damaging incurred by Germany 's industry and air force , the Wehrmacht was forced Request to use Using millions of men , thousands of artillery pieces , and hundreds of millions of shells in a desperate Change_sentiment attempt to halt Process_end American-British Combined Bomber Offensive .

Inez severely damaged Damaging the island 's banana and sugar crops , and thousands of homes were damaged Damaging , leaving Causation 10,000 people homeless .

hundreds of thousands of residents were evacuated Removing , and florida governor bob graham declared Expressing_publicly a state of emergency for six counties ; this was later cancelled Change_event_time following the relatively minor impacts Influence of kate .

These winds caused Causation widespread damage Damaging and disruption , downing Body_movement tens of thousands of trees and power lines .

Hundreds of thousands of residents lost Earnings_and_losses power due Causation to high winds .

Reports Statement of a potentially destructive hurricane Catastrophe near the United States Gulf Coast forced Causation thousands of residents in low-lying areas to evacuate Escaping prior to the storm Catastrophe moving Motion inland .

From 5 to 12 August 1944 , tens of thousands of Polish civilians along with captured Conquering Home Army resistance fighters were brutally and systematically murdered Killing by the Germans in organised Arranging mass executions Rewards_and_punishments throughout Wola .

Black fires Use_firearm from the burning Bodily_harm of thousands of bodies covered Filling the whole suburb .

The militants then forced Control thousands of locals from the region and committed Committing_crime mass killings Killing that culminated Process_end on the 7th .

Hundreds of thousands of monks , children , university students , housewives , doctors and common people protested against the government .

North Vietnam was heavily backed Self_motion by the People 's Republic of China , which in addition to supplying arms as the USSR did , also sent hundreds of thousands of PLA servicemen to North Vietnam to serve in support roles .