Evacuation Day
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Evacuation Day is any of several holidays that celebrate the departure of an occupying army.
- Evacuation Day (Massachusetts)Evacuation Day (Massachusetts)March 17 is Evacuation Day, a holiday observed in Suffolk County and also by the public schools in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. The holiday commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the American Revolutionary War...
, anniversary of departure of British army on March 17, 1776; celebrated in Greater Boston since 1901. - Evacuation Day (New York)Evacuation Day (New York)Following the American Revolution, Evacuation Day on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when the last vestige of British authority in the United States — its troops in New York — departed from Manhattan...
, anniversary of departure of British army on November 25, 1783; celebrated annually until World War I - Evacuation Day (Syria)Evacuation Day (Syria)Evacuation Day is Syria's national day commemorating the evacuation of the last French soldier and Syria's proclamation of full independence and the end of the French mandate of Syria on April 17, 1946....
, anniversary of departure of French army on April 17, 1946. - British Evacuation Day, LibyanLibyanA Libyan is a person or thing of, from, or related to Libya in North Africa.The term Libyan may also refer to:* A person from Libya, or of Libyan descent. For information about the Libyan people, see Demographics of Libya and Culture of Libya. For specific persons, see List of Libyans.* Libyan...
anniversary of the final departure of British forces on 28 March, 1970.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12882213