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rebel and Volunteers
The British eventually took the position, which had not been reinforced by the nearby rebel garrison at Boland's Mills, on Thursday but the fighting there inflicted up to two thirds of their casualties for the entire week for a cost of just four dead Volunteers.
However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.
He and his Volunteers raided rebel settlements throughout the Mohawk Valley, stealing their cattle, burning their houses, and killing many.

rebel and were
But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.
Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.
During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.
In some cases, however, people that were conquered by the Muslims would rebel and revert to prior forms of worship.
By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.
His supporters reportedly were joining or were prepared to join rebel movements in belief that their leader was still the rightful head of state of the country.
In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.
The horse mounted infantry of the Scouts were effective and reportedly feared by their opponents in the rebel African forces.
The Barbary pirates thus had no need to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, who were their nominal state government, to gain recognition for their sovereignty.
The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.
These parties included the preceding government, the rebel groups that were fighting against the government, with heavy Rwandan and Ugandan support, the internal opposition parties, and the Civil Society.
The rebel headquarters was located at the General Post Office ( GPO ) where James Connolly, overall military commander and four other members of the Military Council: Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, Seán Mac Dermott and Joseph Plunkett were located.
Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.
The raids were considered a success since the major goal of destroying any rebel alliance networks was completed.
In both cases, the rebel fleets were defeated by the Constantinopolitan Imperial Fleet through the use of Greek fire.
After the battle of Culloden the leaders were declared to be traitors, with Jacobite officers executed and many of the rebel soldiers shipped to the colonies as indentured servants.
Eustace and his wife, Juliane, were outraged and threatened to rebel.
Within a few months of John's return, rebel barons in the north and east of England were organising resistance to his rule.
" Johnny and his companions were not only not kidnapped, but were given a rebel escort to the golf course.

rebel and minority
The study interpreted this as stating that minority groups are more likely to rebel if they feel that they are being dominated, but that rebellions are more likely to occur the more homogeneous the population and thus more cohesive the rebels.
" Rai became an important means of cultural expression for a minority struggling to carve out an ethnic identity and a space for itself in an inhospitable, racist environment " Rai is more than simply cultural expression, it morphed into a unique blend of popular " rebel " music.
It was the homeland of the minority Akazu and a refuge for thousands of people displaced by the rebel RPF occupation of large areas in the south.
Alone among Mali's many northern rebel groups, the FIAA drew its members mainly from north-west Mali's Hassani Arab minority, which is closely related by tribal ties, dialect and culture to the Moorish population of Mauritania and the Sahrawis of Western Sahara, Algeria and Morocco.

rebel and faction
The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, the rebel faction of the Taiping Rebellion in 1860s Qing China was a heterodox Christian Theocracy led by the self-proclaimed younger brother of Jesus Christ, Hong Xiuquan.
In 1363, Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated his arch rival and leader of the rebel Han faction Chen Youliang in the Battle of Lake Poyang, arguably the largest naval battle in history.
The victory destroyed the last opposing rebel faction, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang in uncontested control of the bountiful Yangtze River Valley and cementing his power in the south.
Although sources are not clear, it seems apparent that in 778 the town was in hands of a Basque local or Muslim rebel faction loyal to the Franks at the moment of Charlemagne ´ s crossing of the Pyrenees to the south.
He and his ka-tet also discover a plot between the Barony's elite and " The Good Man " John Farson, leader of a rebel faction, to fuel Farson's war machines with Mejis oil.
Child soldiers are fighting with the Chadian Military, integrated rebel forces-the United Front for Democratic Change ( Front Uni pour le Changement, FUC ), local self-defense forces known as Tora Boro militias, and two Sudanese rebel movements operating in Chad-the Justice and Equality Movement ( JEM ) and the G-19 faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army ( SLA ).
The First Barons ' War began in 1215 between King John and a faction of rebel barons opposed to his rule.
Next, Father Mack went to the Town Hall and got warrants for the arrest of the rebel faction, after which the police arrested three of them.
Sun Yat-sen led a faction to rebel against Yuan on July 12 but was completely defeated within two months.
He went on to lead the rebel faction of the party advocating a no vote in the 2005 Referendum, and was seen as the spearhead of the whole no campaign in France.
She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani's control of their planet.
Wang sent Xu Rong and Hu Zhen ( former members of the Liang faction ) to fight the Liang force en route, but Xu was killed in the first encounter and Hu led his troops to join the rebels and the size of the rebel force was inflated to 100, 000 when they surrounded the capital.
During the crisis over the Parliament Act 1911, Halsbury was one of the principal leaders of the rebel faction of Tory peers — labelled the " Ditchers "— that resolved on all out opposition to the government's bill whatever happened.
During the flight back to Trantor a rebel, Gornon Vlimt, turns out to be another robot from a faction of Calvinians, who want to send Hari into the future.
The nonplayable factions ( in the campaign ) are: Macedon, Pontus, Armenia, Numidia, Scythia, Dacia, Thrace, Spain, the S. P. Q. R., and the rebel faction.
During the night of April 23, and whilst the Blanco Encalada was lying quietly at anchor in Caldera Bay, the Almirante Lynch torpedo gunboat, belonging to the Balmaceda faction, steamed into the bay of Caldera and discharged a torpedo at the rebel ship.
The second half of the series see the protagonists join up with the rebel faction, the Comodeen, and board the submarine, Jane, which is bound for Telos, the only place in Wonderland that has a natural deposit of the gravity defying flying water.
Sacasa, under political pressure from José María Moncada, who had been a leader of a rebel faction which later joined the government after U. S. mediation efforts, appointed Anastasio Somoza García as chief director of the National Guard.
After the departure of U. S. troops in 1933 ( at the depth of the Great Depression ), the Sacasa government opened negotiations with the rebel faction of Augusto César Sandino.
However he fell out with a faction in the local Conservative Party and launched a rebel group which led to his expulsion.
He led the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ), an Afar rebel group, during the civil war of the 1990s ; after the group split in 1994, he led a radical faction of FRUD.
" Because of the hallucinogenic gas and the intertwining of their cultural mythology and their condition of slavery, several years would pass before the Tenctonese could even remember there having been anyone on the slave ship to rebel against, or even that there had been attempts by slaves to rebel, such as the Udara faction.

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