Nonetheless, despite the change in Guatemalan military government, further civil unrest prompted two officers, Captain Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán and Major Francisco Javier Arana, to lead a final coup d ’ état and depose the dictatorship of the generals.

In July 1936, Francisco Franco and other conservative / monarchist generals instigated a coup d ' état which started the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ).

The Nationalist senior generals held an informal meeting in September 1936, where they elected Francisco Franco as leader of the Nationalists, with the rank of Generalísimo ( sometimes written in English as Generalissimo, after the Fascist Italian fashion ).

After Díaz went into exile, Huerta initially pledged allegiance to the new administration of Francisco Madero, and he was retained by the Madero administration to crush anti-Madero revolts by rebel generals such as Pascual Orozco.

A number of generals from the Peninsular War, such as José de San Martín, Carlos María de Alvear, José Matías Zapiola, Francisco Chilavert and Eduardo Kailitz left Cádiz and moved to Buenos Aires.

The royalist generals Vicente Nieto, Francisco de Paula Sanz and José de Córdoba were captured and executed.

Within days, Spain was divided in two: a " Republican " or " Loyalist " Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic ( within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism ) and a " Nationalist " Spain under the insurgent generals, and, eventually, under the leadership of General Francisco Franco.

This beautiful city of Cumaná saw the birth of several national heroes of and contributors to the Independence, movement among whom it can count Antonio Jose de Sucre, the ‘ Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho ’, first among generals and President of Bolivia ; and next to him the Brigadier General D. Juan Francisco Echeto, brave fighter for Venezuelan independence who did not allow his multiple battle wounds lessen his thirst for liberty.

He selected his generals without respect of politics, sending Moriones to the Basque provinces and Navarre at the head of 20, 000 men, Martinez Campos to Catalonia with several thousand, and Lopez Dominguez, the nephew of Marshal Serrano, to begin the land blockade of the last stronghold of the cantonal insurgents, Cartagena, where the crews of Spain's only fleet had joined the revolt.

Undaunted, Serrano began to conspire with Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Prim and Sagasta ; and on 7 July 1868 González Bravo had Serrano and other generals arrested and taken to the Canary Islands.

Serrano would have nothing to do with the federal republic, and even conspired with other generals and politicians to overthrow it on 23 April 1873.

In 1860, Isabella launched a successful war against Morocco, waged by generals O ' Donnell and Juan Prim that stabilized her popularity in Spain.

Most of the generals in the Mexican War against France were natives of the city, including Mariano Escobedo, Juan Zuazua and Jerónimo Treviño.

In June 1999, judge Juan Guzmán Tapia ordered the arrest of five retired generals.

Two other generals with sufficient stature to potentially eclipse the dictator were murdered under suspicious circumstances while in exile: General Joanquin Zenteno Anaya and, more shockingly, former President Juan José Torres, both in 1976.

The generals from the Battle of Guiling met again ( Sun Bin and Tian Ji versus Pang Juan ), by using the same tactic, attacking Wei's capital.

Wei produced some able generals and politicians, including Li Kui, a reformer and Prime Minister of Wei, Yue Yang, ancestor of Yue Yi and conqueror of the State of Zhongshan, and Pang Juan, who conquered many places but lost to Lord Mengchang of Qi and Sun Bin at the Battle of Maling.

It was defended by generals Juan Morales and José Juan de Landero, but they were forced to surrender a few days later.

To the rescue comes Hepatitos ( Juan Luis Galiardo ), the local homosexual and transvestite, who disguises himself as a medical doctor and advises the generals to order circumstantial homosexuality as a way to relieve the pressure in their men.

In 1973 a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan María Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals.

The PARM was founded by a group of veterans of the Mexican Revolution who no longer found arrangement in the PRI, headed by Juan Barragán and Jacinto B. Treviño, both outstanding revolutionary generals who had held important governmental positions.

The brigadier generals, Juan Bautista Pardo and Salvador Moxó ordered Luisa to be transferred to the Castillo San Carlos de Borromeo in Pampatar.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

His rule was endangered by Bardanes Tourkos, one of his ablest generals, who revolted and received support from other commanders, notably the later emperors Leo V the Armenian and Michael II the Amorian in 803.

In 1078 two generals, Nikephoros Bryennios and Nikephoros Botaneiates, simultaneously revolted in the Balkans and Anatolia, respectively.

Both Majorian, comes domesticorum, and Ricimer, comes, initially supported Avitus, but when the Emperor lost the loyalty of the Italian aristocracy, the two generals revolted against him.

Because of such cruelties, many people, including Zhou Xin's own former generals, revolted and fought against Zhou Xin's dynasty, Shang.

In 987, the generals Bardas Sclerus and Bardas Phocas revolted against the Byzantine emperor Basil II.

By that time the Kashmiris had revolted, and Mongke appointed his generals, Sali and Takudar, to replace the court and a Buddhist master, Otochi, as darugachi to Kashmir.

The situation was extremely critical, because along with de la Huerta, about 60 % of the army revolted, including various high-ranking generals across the country.

His conduct of the operations against Jourdan and Moreau in 1796 marked him out at once as one of the greatest generals in Europe.

His student Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of Alexander the Great's generals, Nicanor and Philip.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

Portales brought the military under civilian control by rewarding loyal generals, cashiering troublemakers, and promoting a victorious war against the Peru-Bolivia Confederation ( 1836 – 1839 ).

Some of them refused to fight against blacks, supporting the principles of liberty ; also, a few Poles ( around 100 ) actually joined the rebels ( Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was one of the Polish generals ).

In the council of war which followed, Julian's generals persuaded him not to mount a siege against the city, given the impregnability of its defenses and the fact that Shapur would soon arrive with a large force.

Stalin ordered one of his best NKVD agents, General Nikolai Skoblin, to pass Heydrich false information suggesting that Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other Soviet generals were plotting against Stalin.

Soviet military prosecutors did not use the forged documents against the generals in their secret trial ; they instead relied on false confessions extorted or beaten out of the defendants.

A loose confederation of anti-Bolshevik forces aligned against the Communist government, including land-owners, republicans, conservatives, middle-class citizens, reactionaries, pro-monarchists, liberals, army generals, non-Bolshevik socialists who still had grievances and democratic reformists, voluntarily united only in their opposition to Bolshevik rule.

In the wake of the plot against Hitler's life by a group of regular military generals in July 1944, the Führer came to distrust his regular military, putting ever more trust in the SS, particularly Himmler, who had acted against the plotters and their families.

Given this sense of caution among key members of the British cabinet and of the army, it is even harder to understand why the British government went against the advice of its generals ( such as Wolsely ) to send substantial reinforcements to South Africa before war broke out.

"( 蒼天已死 ， 黃天當立 。 歲在甲子 ， 天下大吉 。) Emperor Ling dispatched generals Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, and Zhu Jun to lead the Han armies against the rebels, and decreed that local governments had to supply soldiers to assist in their efforts.

In a different and more controversial account, Aureolus forges a document, in which Gallienus appears to be plotting against his generals, and makes sure it falls into the hands of the emperor's senior staff.

When Demetrius advanced far into India one of his generals, Eucratides, made himself king of Bactria, and soon in every province there arose new usurpers, who proclaimed themselves kings and fought against each other.

Western nations view Russian bellicosity and belligerence as having markedly increased as of late, with tests of new nuclear-capable missiles occurring on a regular basis, military conflicts with neighboring states, claims of a Russian " sphere of influence " on the perimeter of the old Soviet Union, the rise of ultra-nationalist " Putin Youth " groups, aggressive politicization of and threats of withdrawal of natural gas supplies to Europe should the Europeans not make certain policy concessions, and even threats of a nuclear first strike against Poland have been heard to be made by certain Russian generals.

The first part of his long reign was dominated by civil war against powerful generals from the Anatolian aristocracy.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Theodosius I and Valentinian II then invaded from the east, and campaigned against Magnus Maximus in July – August 388, their troops being led by Richomeres and other generals.

Bragg retained his position, relieving or reassigning the generals who had testified against him, and retaliated against Longstreet by reducing his command to only those units that he brought with him from Virginia.