According to this view, the people indigenous to Taiwan and those who have taken up residence there have been repeatedly occupied by groups including the Dutch, the Spanish, the Ming, Koxinga and the Ming loyalists, the Qing, the Japanese and finally the Chinese Nationalists led by the Kuomintang.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

The Irish Nationalists, led by Charles Parnell, voted against the Tories on a land Bill.

The Nationalists, now led by Eddie Fenech Adami, refused to accept the electoral result and also refused to take their seats in parliament for the first years of the legislature, mounting a campaign demanding that Parliament should reflect the democratic will of the people.

Republicans and some independent Nationalists who led opposition to the idea of compulsory military service for Irish men in the conscription crisis of early 1918.

Chiang's faith in Tang was due largely to Tang's participation in the Central Plains War in 1927, in which he led his forces into Hunan in support of the Nationalists.

The incident led to a truce between the Nationalists and the Communists so as to form a united front against the threat posed by Japan.

A new generation of leaders, led by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu recognised that the Nationalists were certain to ban the ANC and so make peaceful protest all but impossible.

The Irish Nationalists led by Dillon walked out of the House of Commons and returned to Ireland to join in the widespread resistance and protests during the resulting conscription crisis.

The period between September and November were calm periods of time in which the Nationalists, once more led by the reinstated Chiang Kai-shek, reorganized themselves, though it was not until January 2 that it was formally announced.

The Nationalists were later led by Theodoros Deligiannis who famously said " was against everything Trikoupis was for.

Albizu was pardoned in 1953 by then governor Luis Muñoz Marín but the pardon was revoked the following year after the 1954 nationalist attack of the United States House of Representatives, when four Puerto Rican Nationalists, led by Lolita Lebrón opened fire from the gallery of the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C ..

Makhno fought all factions that sought to impose any external authority over southern Ukraine, battling in succession the Ukrainian Nationalists, the Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian occupation, the Hetmanate Republic, the White Army, the Red Army, and other smaller forces led by Ukrainian atamans.

The Nationalists led by Francisco Franco won the Civil War and established a far more authoritarian regime.

This led to a reunification of the Purified Nationalists with the faction that had merged with the South African Party ; together, they formed the Herenigde Nasionale Party ( Reunited National Party ), which went on to defeat Smuts ' United Party in 1948.

Written in 1939, the story is set in the Spanish Civil War, which began July 18, 1936, and ended April 1, 1939, when the Nationalists ( known in Spanish as the Nacionales ), led by General Francisco Franco, overcame the forces of the Spanish Republic and entered Madrid.

But the Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek attacked his forces and in May 1928 the Fengtian Army had to retreat towards Beijing.

In late 1973 it rejected the idea of compulsory power sharing with Irish Nationalists and consequently refused invitations to take part in the conferences which led to the Sunningdale Agreement.

The Progressives became the biggest rivals to the opposition Nationalists led by Sun.

His election was faciliatated by an informal alliance between the Conservatives and the Nationalists led by Henri Bourassa because of Sevigny's sympathy with Bourassa's views.

Nationalists, led by John Redmond, were adamant that any partition was unacceptable, and he declared that they could never assent to the mutilation of the Irish nation.

To them, the Nationalists had led the way towards Home Rule from the 1880s without trying hard enough to understand Unionist apprehensions, and were instead relying on their mathematical majority of electors.

In Ukraine, the NBP joined other small parties in signing a Declaration of the Kiev Council of Slav Radical Nationalists in 1996, in an initiative led by the Ukrainian National Assembly.

The Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, were also factionalized but to a lesser extent.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

The war had severely weakened the Nationalists, while the Communists were strengthened by their popular land-reform policies, and by a rural population that supported and trusted them.

The Nationalists initially had superiority in arms and men, but their lack of popularity, infiltration by Communist agents, low morale, and disorganization soon allowed the Communists to gain the upper hand in the civil war.

A Savoia-Marchetti SM. 81 | plane, supported by Fiat CR. 32 | smaller fighter planes, of Francisco Franco's Nationalists bombs Madrid during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936-1939 )

Both sides received foreign military aid: the Nationalists from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Portugal, while the Republic was supported by organised far-left volunteers in the International Brigades.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

Although the new party was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader, and thus became Leader of the Opposition.

The Irish Nationalists held the balance of power in Parliament at this time, Gladstone's conversion had convinced them to support the Liberal Government by using the 86 seats of Parliament they controlled.

However, Powell lost his seat in the election by 731 votes to the Social Democratic and Labour Party's Eddie McGrady, mainly due to demographic and boundary changes that resulted in there being many more Irish Nationalists in the constituency than before.

McGrady paid tribute to Powell, recognising the respect he was held by both Unionists and Nationalists in the constituency.

Image: Flag of Castile ( purple ). svg | Flag used by some Castilian Nationalists.

Shantou was taken on 6 November, and by the end of 1925, the Nationalists controlled all of Guangdong province.

Although the UAP was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as leader rather than the Nationalists ' last leader, John Latham.

It began with an oppressive period of crackdown and paternalistic rule, then a dōka ( 同化 ) period of aims to treat all people ( races ) alike proclaimed by Taiwanese Nationalists who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations ( 民族自決 ) proposed by Woodrow Wilson after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( 皇民化 ), a policy which aimed to turn Taiwanese into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor.

During the Spanish Civil War, Badajoz was taken by the Nationalists in the Battle of Badajoz.

To save endless debate in parliament, George V called a Buckingham Palace Conference with two MPs from each of the British parties, and two each from the nationalists and unionists, held between 21 and 24 July, which achieved very little, except a flicker of understanding between Carson and the Nationalists, that if Ulster were to be excluded, then in its entirety, that the province should come in or out as a whole.

He was actively involved in undermining attempts by Lloyd George to negotiate a deal between Irish Nationalists and Unionists in July 1916 over introducing the suspended Home Rule Act 1914, publicly clashing with his archrival Edward Carson.

On July 4, 1946, Stuart was appointed the U. S. Ambassador to China and, in this position, worked in concert with General George C. Marshall to mediate between Nationalists and Communists.