[lemma=from] □ □
[lemma=from] [□] □
[lemma=from] □ □ □
It happened 230 years ago in our War of Independence from the British . Wall Street in Manhattan , for example , started as a 12-foot-high wooden stockade the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam built to protect themselves from repeated attacks from the British . As with the Aircraft Warning Service , military and civilian defense officials learned a great deal about how to organize and train for air raids from the British . Even violent and revengeful Pashtuns of Afghanistan under the leadership of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in a part of India were non-violent fighters in Mahatma Gandhi 's movement for the freedom from the British .