
1) Asylum seekers 2) Defectors 3) Displaced persons 4) Einstein and others 5) Ellis island visitors 6) Expatriates of a sort 7) Fleers 8) People fleeing a land 9) Political exiles 10) Political fugitives 11) Political refugees 12) Some aliens 13) Some expatriates 14) Some fugitives 15) Some political fugitives
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The emigres were monarchist fugitives from France who fled at the time of the Revolution in 1798, settling in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the USA. At the head of these emigrants stood the royal princes of Conde, Provence, and Artois, the first of whom collected a part of the fugitives to co-operate with the allied armies in Germany f...
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