There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

Or was it another revolt inside Vientiane??

Ahab was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842 BC.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

This led to a further revolt near Philippopolis, and the commander of the field army in the west, Gregory Pakourianos, was defeated and killed in the ensuing battle.

General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated.

It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the philhellene league of Onesilos of Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from Achaemenid Persia in 500-494BC, when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the capture and execution of Onesilos.

After this, the Ionian revolt carried on ( without further outside aid ) for a further five years, until it was finally completely crushed by the Persians.

Thus while Athens was increasing her navy with the funds they contributed, a revolt always found itself without enough resources or experienced leaders for war.

Chios, the greatest and most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed a success of several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt.

In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

Italy was lost, raiders from Moravia and Hungary were continually raiding his lands, and Lotharingia was in revolt against Zwentibold.

Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: Colonia Aelia Capitolina ) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 136.

He was twenty when his family, the ruling Umayyads, were overthrown by a popular revolt known as the Abbasid Revolution, occurring in the year 750.

There was a recorded revolt against Russian workers in Amchitka in 1784.

Vienna was also under pressure from Rákóczi's Hungarian revolt from its eastern approaches.

Nevertheless, by 1704, the threat was still real: Rákóczi's Hungarian revolt was already threatening the Empire's eastern approaches, and Marshal Vendôme's forces threatened an invasion from northern Italy.

During the Cultural Revolution, a number of top naval commissars and commanders were purged, and naval forces were used to suppress a revolt in Wuhan in July 1967, but the service largely avoided the turmoil affecting the country.

Although Mexico had been in revolt in 1811 under Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, resistance to Spanish rule had largely been confined to small guerrilla bands in the countryside.

Theophanu's regency was largely spared internal revolt.

Similarly, General Murray, though initially sceptical of the Arab Revolt's potential, thought highly of Lawrence's abilities as an intelligence officer ; indeed, it was largely through Lawrence's persuasion that Murray came to support the revolt.

According to Ira Lapidus, " The Abbasid revolt was supported largely by Arabs, mainly the aggrieved settlers of Marw with the addition of the Yemeni faction and their Mawali ".

Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land.

In 1848, largely on account of his personal attachment to Martin Van Buren, he participated in the revolt of the “ Barnburners ” or Free-Soil faction of the New York Democrats.

His troops, largely Bulgarian, joined the revolt, and Michael IV was chased out of the vicinity of Thessalonica.

Kazan was largely destroyed in 1774 as a result of the Pugachev revolt, a revolt by border troops and peasants led by the Don Cossack ataman ( captain ) Yemelyan Pugachev, but was rebuilt soon afterwards, during the reign of Catherine the Great.

Known as the " Knight of Hope "-the title of a biography written by Jorge Amado-Prestes helped organize the failed tenente rebellion of 1922, a revolt by the largely middle class officer corps and poor conscripted servicemen against the agrarian oligarchies that dominated Brazil's Old Republic ( 1889 – 1930 ).

In the autumn of 1922, Chamberlain faced a backbench revolt ( largely led by Stanley Baldwin ) designed to oust Lloyd George, and when he summoned a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club on 19 October, a motion was passed in favour of fighting the forthcoming election as an independent party.

Instead he organized a revolt against the emperor, led largely by his former prison comrades.

In the early days of the revolt, Hussein's forces were largely made up of Bedouin and other nomadic desert tribes, who were only loosely allied, loyal more to their respective tribes than the overall cause.

Beginning with a revolt against the Umayyad Caliphate, largely centered in Khurasan, not too far from Talas, the rising Abbasid Caliphate decisively defeated the rival Umayyad Caliphate, in the Battle of the Zab, in 750, which thus freed up their armies for other purposes, one of which would be challenge the Tang expansion into the region.

How people answered these questions depended largely on their position prior to the revolt.

In the subsequent revolt, Hatusilli gathered a considerable force including natural allies from his local strongholds of Nerik and Hakpissa, as well as many non-aligned Hittites who were impressed with his record of service to the Hittite Empire including his strategic military victory over Ramesses II of Egypt in the 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh compared to the rather " undistinguished and largely unproven occupant of the throne of Hattusa "-Urhi-Teshub / Mursilis III — who had lost Hanigalbat to Assyria in his reign.

Even as the revolt was unfolding across the country and Queipo de Llano was seizing Seville, republican Prime Minister Santiago Casares Quiroga remained confident that Queipo de Llano would remain loyal to the central government, largely because of the latter's participation in the failed 1930 revolt against the monarchy and the government of Primo de Rivera, but also because Queipo was known to be a freemason, and thus presumably at odds with Spain conservative church hierarchy, which supported the rising.

) Also, he stressed the national aspect to the Ukrainian renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries and thought the great revolt of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Cossacks against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a largely national and social rather than simply religious phenomenon.

For the next eight years, the Almohad revolt was largely confined to an irresolute guerilla war through the ravines and peaks of the Atlas range.

The revolt did not achieve any major changes, the participating troops were pardoned and they largely kept their ranks and military positions.

In 727, a revolt of the thematic fleets, largely motivated by resentment against the Emperor's iconoclasm, was put down by the imperial fleet through use of Greek fire.

* 1846-Spring: A ‘ peasants ’ revolt ’ inaugurates the last phase of the Revolution, starting as an uprising of the peasants of the Minho, largely led by women ( their movement is named after the semi-mythical ‘ Maria da Fonte ’) against land enclosures and new land taxes demanded by the Costa Cabral government to finance its grandiose public works.