Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.

The Muladi rebels were the first problem he confronted.

For the remainder of his reign there are problems: one of his sons rapes one of his daughters, another son kills the first, his favourite son rebels and is killed, until finally only two contenders for the succession remain, one of them Bathsheba's son Solomon.

Diocletian moved into Egypt to suppress him, first putting down rebels in the Thebaid in the autumn of 297, then moving on to besiege Alexandria.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

The first shot shows the gate to the mission station from the outside being attacked and broken open by Chinese Boxer rebels, then there is a cut to the garden of the mission station where the missionary and his family are seated.

On 10 March, France became the first nation to recognise the National Transitional Council of the anti-government rebels as the sole representative of Libya.

Within classical Islamic jurisprudence — the development of which is to be dated into the first few centuries after the prophets death — jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates, rebels, highway robbers and dissenters renouncing the authority of Islam.

The rebels made the first move in the war, seizing the strategic Rochester Castle, owned by Langton but left almost unguarded by the archbishop.

Barely six months after the rebels first attacked, they had reached the outskirts of Monrovia.

* 1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

The first napalm attack in Greece took place on the mountain of Grammos, which was the stronghold of the Communist rebels.

The first allegation supporting the FMLN rebels in El Salvador with safehaven ; training ; command-and-control headquarters and advice ; and weapons, ammunition, and other vital supplies.

Two years later Beijing falls to rebels, the Chongzhen Emperor commits suicide, and the Shunzhi Emperor becomes the first Qing Emperor to rule over China proper.

* May 27 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.

* December 25 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and execute Pedro de Valdivia, the first Royal Governor of Chile.

He was first received by Charles VIII of France but in 1492 expelled under the terms of the Treaty of Etaples, in which Charles had agreed not to shelter rebels against the Tudors.

Darius first finished defeating the rebels in Elam, Assyria, and Babylon and then attacked the Scythian invaders.

The first big clash in the Swedish War of Liberation that now started, took place at Brunnbäck's Ferry in April, where the rebels defeated an army loyal to the king.

At first light on 25 August the rebels changed tactics.

* In the second month of the first year ( 1661 ) of Kangxi, Qing court issued the emperor's decree: The sea shore inhabitants will be ordered to move inland 50 Li ( Chinese: 里 ; translation: mile ), to curb their links with the Taiwan rebels ( Koxinga ).

During the Shaba invasions, France sided firmly with Mobutu: during the first Shaba invasion, France airlifted 1, 500 Moroccan troops to Zaire, and the rebels were repulsed ; a year later, during the second Shaba invasion, France itself would send French Foreign Legion paratroopers ( 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment ) to aid Mobutu ( along with Belgium ).

He followed the Young King in his abortive rebellion against his father in 1173 – 74, and William makes his first appearance in the historical record in a list of rebels compiled by the clerks of Henry II.

It was through the League that many future political leaders and rebels first met, laying the foundation for groups such as the Irish Volunteers ( 1913 ).

On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium ( London ), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels ' next target.

Suetonius Paulinus rode to London, the rebels ' next target, but concluded it could not be defended.

King Richard II was still a child, and his uncle John of Gaunt was the power behind the throne and so a main target of the rebels.

During the American Revolutionary War, no battles took place in present-day Closter, though the residents were seen largely as supporters of the rebels and became the target of British foraging and reprisal raids.

Suetonius brought Mona to terms and marched along the Roman road of Watling Street to Londinium ( London ), the rebels ' next target, but judged he did not have the numbers to defend the city and ordered it evacuated.

The settlement was a target for the rebels because the veterans who inhabited the city " drove people out of their houses, ejected them from their farms, called them captives and slaves ".

One particular target of the rebels was the oil pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum Company constructed only a few years earlier to Haifa from a point on the Jordan River south of Lake Tiberias.

King Richard II was still a child, and his uncle John of Gaunt was the power behind the throne and so a main target of the rebels.

They want the team to eliminate El Cirujano (" The Surgeon "), an ex CIA torture master who's working with the rebels ( and has previously injured the Indian leader ), listed as a target of opportunity.

He is given the task of destroying the rebels who didn't support the king of Nineveh in his resistance against Cheleud and the king of Media, until Israel also becomes a target of his military campaign.

Coptic Christians were divided: Their close affiliation with Europeans angered many and sometime made them a target, but the deep rivalry between Coptic and Syrian Christians led many to align with other Egyptian rebels.

) Eighteen rebels captured in the Civil Hospital were immediately executed in the Moncada small-arms target range within two hours after the attack.

" Pardoned " rebels were a particular target.

Basayev further said an FSB agent ( Khodov ) had been sent undercover to the rebels to persuade them to carry out an attack on a target in North Ossetia's capital, Vladikavkaz, and that the group was allowed to enter the region with ease because the FSB planned to capture them at their destination in Vladikavkaz.

The series began with the main character, Dex, escaping the Plague Patrol with a small group of Edenoites rebels, before leaving for Earth, the next target of his sinister uncle Count Dregon, who ruled Edenoi with an iron fist after displacing Dex's grandfather, King Lexian, who also gave Dex the Masked Rider powers ( where the powers came from is a mystery, although apparently they have been in use for some time by Edenoi's champions ).

Pope was convicted last year of having aided North Celebes rebels by flying bombing missions.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated.

Charlemagne's force eventually headed back to France via a narrow pass in the Pyrenees, where his rearguard was wiped out by Basque and Gascon rebels ( this disaster inspired the epic Chanson de Roland ).

In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands ( until 1493 ) and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.

In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.

Londinium was abandoned to the rebels who burnt it down, slaughtering anyone who had not evacuated with Suetonius.

Proving more fortunate was his choice to break with the French and seek friendly ties with Libyan president Qaddafi, taking away the rebels ' principal source of supplies.

Malloum proved himself unable to cope with the FROLINAT and at the end decided his only chance was in coopting some of the rebels: in 1978 he allied himself with the insurgent leader Hissène Habré, who entered the government as prime minister.

However, peace was short-lived, as FARF rebels clashed with government soldiers, finally surrendering to government forces in May 1998.

The Chadian government denied a warning issued by the French Embassy in N ' Djamena that a group of rebels was making its way through the Batha Prefecture in central Chad.

On Friday, February 1, 2008, rebels, an opposition alliance of leaders Mahamat Nouri, a former defense minister, and Timane Erdimi, a nephew of Idriss Déby who was his chief of staff, attacked the Chadian capital of Ndjamena-even surrounding the Presidential Palace.