The rioters were a mix of immigrants and locals, apparently protesting against a controversial court ruling last week in which a man of Turkish origin became the first Danish-born person to get an expulsion order from the country, to be enforced after he had served a three-year sentence for violent theft.

ECONOMIST: Danes on the rampage

That may not be the same as an instant expulsion order, but it led to Ms Hirsi Ali's abrupt resignation from parliament.

ECONOMIST: A noted critic of Islam leaves the Netherlands

Previously migrants had been transferred from Lampedusa to Sicily, where those not given refugee status eventually received an essentially meaningless expulsion order.

ECONOMIST: Law and order in Italy

The museum has an original of the June 1812 expulsion order telling all Americans to leave Quebec City, as well as a Quebec City Militia officer's uniform.

WSJ: 1812 | Canadian War Museum | Four Ways to Look at a War | By Mark Yost