Eventually, on the 15th, between 150 and 250 volunteers with two artillery pieces behind them left Konstanz, reportedly accompanied by "jubilant crowds."

But suddenly a hush fell over the jubilant crowd.

That jubilant crowd was heavily black and yesterday's included just a smattering of African-Americans.

The crowd, so noisily jubilant before, gasped and fell silent.

There was another sobering undercurrent running through the jubilant crowd.

Wherever I looked there were bonfires set on contraptions, and jubilant crowds.

Taking the roses back, she held them up into the air, waving to the jubilant crowd.

Addressing the jubilant crowd, she told her supporters: "There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

They were greeted by a jubilant crowd while the Japanese were confined to their barracks.

The statue, above, was torn down by jubilant crowds in 1991.