The officers of the Napoleonic Wars brought ideas of liberalism back to Russia with them and attempted to curtail the tsar's powers during the abortive Decembrist revolt of 1825.

* May 26 – Anti-Soviet opposition in the Azerbaijan SSR launches an abortive revolt in Ganja.

In 1859 he attended the execution of John Brown at Charles Town, purchasing a number of the pikes with which Brown had planned to arm slaves as part of his abortive slave revolt, which started and finished at Harper's Ferry earlier that year.

It has been seen by many as a revival of Stalinism and by others as the first open expression of Georgian nationalism since the abortive revolt in 1924.

In the spring of 1940, a group of German generals seeking to overthrow Hitler and make peace with the British approached Pope Pius XII, who acted as a negotiator between the British and the abortive plot.

* Nova Scotia, site of abortive Scottish colony in 1629 ; British colony 1713, but this did not permanently include Cape Breton Island until 1758.

After the break-up of King Crimson in 1974, various plans for a super group involving bassist John Wetton had been mooted, including the abortive British Bulldog project with Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman in 1976.

He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed for high treason.

During Cornwallis ' abortive attack on Greene, another British force made up of grenadiers, light infantry and light dragoons hit Wayne's forward force, who were protected behind a long hedge.

The race was the brainchild of Tom Wheatcroft, who had been trying to bring F1 to the track since an abortive attempt to host the British Grand Prix in 1988.

It departed Canada for Britain on 16 December 1939, and on 13 June 1940 it went to France as part of the abortive Second British Expeditionary Force.

Following the abortive Rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was appointed governor in chief of British North America.

He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed.

The raid was abortive and ended with surviving British troops being captured by the French.

He participated in and criticized General Alexander Smyth ’ s abortive operations against British Canada in 1812, culminating in a bloodless duel between the two.

Relations between France and Prussia quickly soured when Prussia eventually discovered that Napoleon had secretly promised to return sovereignty of Hanover back to Britain during his abortive peace negotiations with the British.

Meinhardt Schomberg was created Duke of Leinster for his part in the Battle on 30 June 1690 and, after taking part in the abortive Siege of Limerick in August 1690, he became a British subject through naturalization by Act of Parliament on 25 April 1691.

He was a great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and a great-grandnephew of the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in an abortive rebellion attempt against the British.

Another abortive uprising would occur in 1867, but the British remained in control.

That same year, he took charge of the Georgia militia in an abortive attempt to seize the British post of St. Augustine, Florida.

He was a leading figure in the so-called Black Flag Rebellion – an abortive attempt to challenge British authority in Kimberley.

The abortive revolutionary insurrection inspired by William Lyon Mackenzie was crushed by British authorities and Canadian volunteer units near a tavern on Yonge Street, Toronto.

The British made an abortive attack with their own militia on October 3, which was quickly repulsed by the American forces in Ogdensburg, after which the militia dispersed.

Founded in 1858 by the former ruler of the insular Pate sultanate after several abortive moves to the mainland, the native sultanate of Wituland was a haven for slaves fleeing the Zanzibar slave trade and thus a target of attacks from the Sultanate of Zanzibar ( ruled by a branch of the Omani dynasty, under British protectorate ).

The abortive expedition by the British explorer John Ross in 1818 ended when he saw what he believed were mountains blocking the end of Lancaster Sound.

In particular, the influx of labourers from the United Kingdom employed by the British government in the construction of the abortive harbour project and other fortifications ( during the reign of Queen Victoria ), as well as the stationing of a sizable British garrison among the small population, served to relegate Auregnais to a lesser status for communication.

The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD.

The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD.

In the west, Liam Mellows led 600 – 700 Volunteers in abortive attacks on several police stations, at Oranmore and Clarinbridge in County Galway.

In 1601 he led an abortive coup d ' état against the government and was executed for treason.

Bakunin supported the German Democratic Legion led by Herwegh in an abortive attempt to join Friedrich Hecker's insurrection in Baden.

The Thuringii had a separate identity as late as 785 – 786, when one of their leading men, Hardrad, led an abortive insurrection against Charlemagne.

It was this involvement in radical Irish politics that led him to become involved in the abortive Fenian raids of 1866, 1870, and 1871.

In 1381 he led an abortive expedition to join with the Portuguese in attacking Castile, but after months of indecisiveness a peace was again declared ( between Spain and Portugal ) and Edmund had to lead his malcontented troops home.

In December 1920, he led another assault, this time abortive, on the RIC station in his home village of Camlough.

In the 1740s Archbishop Thomas Herring left £ 1000 for the rebuilding of the college and this led to several abortive attempts to start construction.

Murtala Mohammed was killed along with his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Akintunde Akinsehinwa, on February 13, 1976 in an abortive coup attempt led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, when his car was ambushed while en route to his office at Dodan Barracks, Lagos.

The unrest that resulted from the 1830 French July Revolution led to a temporary reversal of that trend, but after the demonstration for civic rights and national unity at the 1832 Hambach Festival, and the abortive attempt at an armed rising in the 1833 Frankfurter Wachensturm, the pressure on representatives of constitutional or democratic ideas was raised through measures such as censorship and bans on public assemblies.

The failure of the Meech Lake Accord — an abortive attempt to redress the constitutional problems brought on by the adoption of the 1982 amendment without the Quebec government's approval — strengthened the conviction of most sovereigntist politicians and led many federalist ones to place little hope in the prospect of a federal constitutional reform that would satisfy Quebec's purported historical demands ( according to proponents of the sovereignty movement ).

During his tenure, Kinsley tried to overhaul the paper's editorial page and led an abortive experiment with a Wikitorial, while also receiving criticism from USC professor and feminist advocate Susan Estrich, alleging the lack of editorials written by women.

At the time, Dawkins was averaging 15. 3 points and shooting. 644 from the floor, but the injury sidelined him for 31 of the Nets ’ final 32 games and led to abortive playing attempts over the next three seasons.

Among them, Sheikh Hasina supported abortive military coup led by Lt. General A S M Nasim in 1996 and coming back to power in the same year gave Nasim normal retirement instead of earlier dismissal order.

After abortive attempts by Indian expeditions in 1957 and 1961, the second ascent of Nanda Devi was accomplished by an Indian team led by N. Kumar in 1964, following the Coxcomb route.

In 757 ( 140 AH ), a group of four Basra-educated missionaries ( including Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rustam ) proclaimed an Ibādī imamate, starting an abortive state led by Abul-Khattab Abdul-A ' la ibn as-Samh which lasted until the Abbasids suppressed it in 761, and Abul-Khattab Abdul-A ' la ibn as-Samh was killed.

As part of this campaign, he led an abortive attempt to block Austen Chamberlain's nomination as leader of the Unionist party on Andrew Bonar Law's retirement, putting forward Lord Birkenhead instead with the express aim of " splitting the coalition ".

After the abortive Conspiracy of the Machetes in 1799, the War of independence led by the Mexican-born Spaniards became a reality with the Grito de Dolores coming 11 years after the conspiracy, which is considered in modern Mexico to be a precursor of the War of Independence.

During the abortive Soviet coup attempt of 1991 led by KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, he led crowds to the Russian White House, center of anticoup efforts, and induced Yeltsin to address the crowds.

The Japanese led an abortive rebellion in Dilao against the Spanish in 1606-1607.

He was pensioned, joined the Russian Senate, and retained his royal style until May 6, 1833 when he was demoted from tsarevich ( the Russian equivalent of batonishvili ) to " prince " ( knyaz ), along with other members of the deposed dynasty, following an abortive uprising in Georgia led by David ’ s uncle, Prince Alexandre Bagrationi.