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rebellion organized resistance or opposition to a government or other authority Rebellion Absalom conspires to overthrow father, David. [O.T.: II Samuel 15:10–18:33] celebration of day Paris mob stormed prison; first outbreak of French Revolution (1789). [Fr. Hist.: EB, I: 866] early, aborted Nazi coup (1923). [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 198–241] irate colonists, dressed as Indians, pillage three British ships (1773). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 58, 495] xenophobic Chinese Taoist faction rebelled against foreign intruders (1900). [Chinese Hist.: Parrinder, 50] sailors seize command from the pathological and incompetent Capt. Queeg. [Am. Lit.: Wouk The Caine Mutiny in Benét, 157] (fl. late 18th century) leader of mutinous sailors against Captain Bligh (1789). [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] unsuccessful Irish revolt against British (1916). [Irish Hist.: EB, III: 760–761] Guy Fawkes’s aborted plan to blow up British House of Commons (1605). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1165] scene of Brown’s aborted slave uprising. [Am. Hist.: John Jameson, 220]
iron-curtain country futilely resisted Soviet domination (1956). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 553] peasant revolt, brutally carried out and suppressed (1358). [Fr. Hist.: Bishop, 372–373] with God’s sanction, establishes hegemony over ten tribes of Israel. [O.T.: I Kings 11:31–35] rose up against Moses; slain by Jehovah. [O.T.: Numbers 16:1–3] fugitive from Turkish law; firebrand for Bulgarian independence of Ottoman rule. [Bulgarian Lit.: Under the Yoke] activities of mutineers, Captain Bligh, island wanderings (1789). [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] the English villeins’ attempt to improve their lot (1381). [Br. Hist.: Bishop, 220–221, 373–374] the Mr. Gray successfully carries out many assignments for the rebels and thwarts the British [Am. Lit.: Cooper The Pilot] soldiers’ uprising against British rule in India (1857–1858). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1328] led an aborted revolt against King David. [O.T.: II Samuel 20: 1–2] returns from exile disguised as a priest and engages in antifascist activities. [Ital. Lit.: Bread and Wine] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 25, The New York Times (NYT) quoted Suleiman Jamous, a senior commander with the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), as saying a government warplane had bombed a rebel camp in a village called Tadit, roughly 40 km south-west of the North Darfur capital, El-Fashir. Christmas morning dawned gloomy and cold over the rebel camp. Meanwhile, the complexity of the war has increased considerably amid major splits in the southern rebel camp, one the one hand, and the lack of cohesion among the political groups in the northern side. |
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