It wasn't that many generations ago when European countries ran half the world: Germans in Namibia, Belgians in the Congo, Portuguese in Macau, Dutch in Jakarta, French in Algeria, Austro-Hungarians in Trieste, British…everywhere. What interesting stories – good, bad, and ugly – have you heard about great-great-aunts and uncles who went out to soldier and settle for a few years and came back…or perhaps never came back?