MLC controlled the northern part of DRC and its rebels were stationed on the other side of the Ubangi river from Bangui.

In a minor battle known as the Battle of Covadonga, a Muslim force sent to put down the Christians rebels in the northern mountains was defeated by Pelagius of Asturias, who established the monarchy of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias.

The rebels lacked the engineering expertise or heavy equipment necessary to assault the network of royal castles that cut off the northern rebel barons from those in the south.

However, due to the 2012 insurgency in northern Mali, the military government controls only the southern third of the country, leaving the north of the country ( known as Azawad ) to MNLA rebels.

The executive council, which had been appointed by the Potchefstroom assembly, with Pretorius as president, now took up a bolder attitude: they deposed Schoeman from all authority, declared Zoutpansberg in a state of blockade, and denounced the Boers of the two northern districts as rebels.

* February – The Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva ( the future antipope Clement VII ), pillages Cesena and 4, 000 antipapal rebels are massacred.

Carausius was of humble origin, a Menapian who distinguished himself during Maximian's campaign against the Bagaudae rebels in northern Gaul in 286.

On 31 January 1891, a republican-inspired rebellion broke out in the northern city of Porto and A Portuguesa was adopted by the rebels as their marching song.

On, the rebels met defeat and the surviving leaders were sent to Saint Petersburg to stand trial with the northern leaders.

The Egyptian forces in the Sudan were insufficient to cope with the rebels, and the northern government was occupied in the suppression of the Urabi Revolt.

When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in Lincolnshire and the northern counties late in 1536, Norfolk shared command of the King's forces with the Earl of Shrewsbury, persuading the rebels to disperse by promising them a pardon and that Parliament would consider their grievances.

Together with Zhang Fei, Guan Yu joined Liu Bei and participated actively in fighting the Yellow Turban rebels in northern China.

* February 21: 2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq Turkey launches an offensive in northern Iraq against PKK rebels.

The 1991 uprising in northern Iraq resulted in an Iraqi military response towards the rebels in both northern and southern Iraq.

* The also very important Chimei ( 赤眉, " red eyebrows ") rebels, who were led by Fan Chong ( 樊崇 ), who roved through large swaths of territory in modern southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

During the Croatian War of Independence, Krajina rebels and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) ( at the time under Slobodan Milošević's control ) converged on the city and subjected it to artillery bombardment during Operation Coast-91 in which they tried to take control of northern Dalmatia.

Relations with Papua New Guinea, which had become strained because of an influx of refugees from the Bougainville rebellion and attacks on the northern islands of the Solomon Islands by elements pursuing Bougainvillean rebels, have been repaired.

The Uganda Peoples Defense Force ( UPDF ) launched " Operation Iron Fist " against LRA rebels in northern Uganda in 2002 and conducted operations against LRA sanctuaries in southern Sudan with the permission of the Sudanese Government.

In 1107 Sir Alexander Carron, nicknamed Schyrmeschur (" The Swordsman ") for his deeds against the northern rebels, was granted the arms and name of Schyrmeschur by King Alexander I.

In 1655 Howard was given a regiment, was appointed a commissioner to try the northern rebels, and a deputy major-general of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland.

In the Eighty Years ' War, the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen in 1572 provided the first foothold on land for the rebels, who would conquer the northern Netherlands and establish an independent Dutch Republic.

The film mentions that rebels have taken the " northern area " of Krakozhia.

One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

The capital of the Ifat was Zeila, situated in northern present-day Somalia, from where the Ifat army marched to conquer the ancient Kingdom of Shoa in 1270.

Collecting a large army Maximilian marched to defend his territories ; but no decisive engagement had taken place when a truce was made in 1568, and the emperor continued to pay tribute to the sultan as the price of peace in the western and northern areas of the Hungarian kingdom still under Habsburg control.

* Emperor Carinus marched from Roman Britain to northern Italy and defeats the army under Sabinus Julianus at Verona.

His army sacked the city of Caen, and marched across northern France, to meet up with English forces in Flanders.

The northern Lancastrian army which had been victorious at Wakefield was reinforced by Scots and borderers eager for plunder, and marched south.

But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern Celtic kingdoms preferred to ally themselves with the pagan Norse of Dublin, so in 934 he marched north to ravage Scotland.

The Cimbri conveniently marched into Hispania and the Teutoni milled around in northern Gaul, leaving Marius to prepare his army.

In the summer of 880 the brothers Carloman and Louis marched against him, took Mâcon and the northern parts of Boso's realm.

Thousands of Union troops marched in formation and paraded before President Abraham Lincoln, the northern press, and many onlookers from Washington.

The following year, Wellington marched 121, 000 troops ( 53, 749 British, 39, 608 Spanish, and 27, 569 Portuguese ) from northern Portugal across the mountains of northern Spain and the Esla River, by 20 May 1813, to outflank Marshal Jourdan's army of 68, 000 who were strung out between the Douro and the Tagus.

The first, called the Army of Italy, had marched from northern Italy to the main theatre of operations north of Vienna and was led by Napoleon's stepson, the Viceroy of Italy, Prince Eugène.

In the summer of 880 Carloman and Louis marched against him and captured Mâcon and the northern part of Boso's realm.

Nobunaga, who had prepared over a period of years for just such an opportunity by establishing an alliance with the Azai clan in northern Ōmi Province and then conquering the neighboring province of Mino Province, now marched toward Kyoto.

On the same day that Strasbourg fell French forces marched into Casale in northern Italy.

In northern Italy Catinat marched on Rivoli ( with reinforcements from the Rhine and Catalan fronts ), forcing the Duke of Savoy to abandon the siege and bombardment of Pinerolo ( 25 September – 1 October ) before withdrawing to protect his rear.

He saw action in the Battle of the Meuse, in May 1940, when the German Army marched through the Ardennes into northern France.

The advance guard was reinforced with the 2nd Brigade ( 6th, 15th and 22nd U. S. Infantry ) under Brigadier General Jacob Brown, who took command of the force, and marched eastward along the northern bank of the river.

They had left the town of Verín, 12 kilometers from the northern border with Spain, and had marched towards the border.

The morning of June 21, the Roman troops marched eastward along the road running near the northern edge of the lake.

The Black Flags marched slowly through northern Tonkin, recruiting men to their standard as they went, and eventually set up camp just outside Son Tay, on the northern bank of the Red River.

The twenty Athenian ships entered the gulf sailing in single file along the northern shore ; the Messenian hoplites from Naupactus marched along the shore beside them.