He also sought to protect the rights of peasant freeholders, who served as the main recruitment pool for the armed forces of the Empire, against attempts by the aristocracy to acquire their land-putting him in direct conflict with some of the largest landholders in the Empire.

Louis Philippe put himself between a peasant armed with a carbine and the priests, saving their lives.

At the same time, Fujimori's government armed rural Peruvians, organizing them into groups known as " rondas campesinas " (" peasant patrols ").

Patrician Landvögte, sheriffs, ruled the politically powerless countryside, often using armed force to put down peasant revolts.

" One hundred and fifty KPRA seats were allocated for peasant representatives ; fifty, for the armed forces ; and fifty, for worker and other representatives.

Members and candidate members of the CPK, local-level leaders of poor peasant background who collaborated with the Angkar, and members of the armed forces had a higher standard of living than the rest of the population.

With the exception of periodic, localized peasant uprisings, the Shimabara Rebellion was the last large-scale armed clash in Japan until the 1860s.

16th century peasant rebelsFor example, in the 1420-1497 period, the Hussites fielded large numbers of peasant foot soldiers armed with flails.

The Green armies, Green Army ( Russian: Зелёная Армия ), or Greens ( Russian: Зелёные ) were armed peasant groups which fought against all governments in the Russian Civil War.

They incited armed resistance to Soviet institutions in nearby villages and towns, bragging of peasant victories and recruiting new soldiers, sometimes by force.

Instead of focusing armed attention on the Greens as a whole, the Reds treated each peasant army as a specific instance of unrest, suppressing harshly and further angering the peasant population.

The peasant army was known as the Antonovtsi or " Blue Army ", as opposed to the " White Army " ( anti-communist army ), " Red Army " ( communist army ), " Green Army " ( armed peasant groups ) and " Black Army " ( anarchists of Ukraine and Russia )— all taking part in the Civil War.

At the same time, however, Austria extracted from Galicia considerable wealth and conscripted large numbers of the peasant population into its armed services.

While the Jacobites appeared to have great advantages in terms of numbers in Ireland, in fact, the troops raised by Tyrconnell were mainly hastily conscripted peasant bands, most of them poorly armed and trained.

Initially after the occupation of Poland by the Soviet Union and Germany, the peasant parties were reluctant to forming their own armed resistance forces.

Most of members of peasant parties grouped into CKRL ( Central Directorate of Peasant Movement ) who received military training before the war were transferred to other armed resistance organizations, most notably to ZWZ.

The congress advanced the slogan of fighting for the complete abolition of the dictatorship of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie and for the proletariat winning power in alliance with the peasant poor, through an armed uprising.

The congress made all its decisions subordinate to the chief objective, which was to train the working class and the peasant poor for an armed uprising to bring about the victory of the socialist revolution.

" As a result, the Communist Party of Georgia chose, for the time being, to use peaceful persuasion rather than armed coercion to extend their influence over the peasant masses, and to moderate the attempts to enforce collectivization.

Over 200 armed ( with bow and arrow ) warriors stood along the border of the property near the campsite of the would-be peasant invaders.

The Telangana peasant armed struggle was successful in driving out local landlords ( zamindars ), and distributing their land to the landless.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.

Holtom later said that it also represented " an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad.

This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

Gastro-tourism and the Guide Michelin helped to acquaint people with the rich bourgeois and peasant cuisine of the French countryside starting in the 20th century.

From 1515 to 1523, the Habsburg government in the Netherlands also had to contend with the Frisian peasant rebellion, led first by Pier Gerlofs Donia and then by his nephew Wijerd Jelckama.

The revolutionary armies were formed by cacos, peasant brigands from the mountains of the north, along the porous Dominican border, who were enlisted by rival political factions with promises of money to be paid after a successful revolution and an opportunity to plunder.

The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).

Another national peasant organization, the National Union of Peasants ( Unión Nacional de Campesinos — UNC ), claiming a membership of 40, 000, was affiliated with the CGT for many years and was a principal force within the confederation.

During a 16th-century peasant revolt in southern Norway, the rebels claimed, during their trial, that they expected the " Hun king Atle " to come from the north with a great host.

The nobility class fell under control of a handful of powerful families with established territorial domains, the urban population and infrastructure fell into ruin, together with most peasant farms.

The " Red ", or left-wing conspiracy faction, which promoted peasant enfranchisement and cooperated with Russian revolutionaries, became involved in immediate preparations for a national uprising.

The Cossack leader Stenka Razin led his followers up the Volga River, inciting peasant uprisings and replacing local governments with Cossack rule.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

His pictures of Italian peasant life and pastoral genre scenes became very popular with British visitors on the continent and generated multiple commissions for his work.

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

Originating as a peasant dish, all parts of beef are used, including tail, leg and rib bones with or without meat attached ; these are boiled in water to extract fat, marrow, and gelatin to create a rich soup.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

In 1915 – 1916 he worked with other Suprematist artists in a peasant / artisan co-operative in Skoptsi and Verbovka village.