What came from that discussion was Special Field Order No. 15, commonly known as “40 acres and a mule ... some 400,000 acres of confiscated land along the Atlantic coast, stretching from ...

And in February, 2,640 dunams (650 acres) were declared state land east of Jerusalem. Despite opposition abroad, Israel has in recent decades built dozens of settlements across the West Bank.

Sherman during the Civil War. The order would have alotted for 400,000 acres of Confederate land to be broken up to give formerly enslaved freed Black families 40 acres a piece so that they could ...