Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

As of September 2011, the government is attempting to form what is called the Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FANCI ), which aims to merge 5, 000 former rebels of the FRCI with 30, 000 veterans of the former regular army ( Forces de défense et de sécurité-FDS ).

Some rebels disliked being called contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order.

Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as (" commandos "); peasant sympathizers also called the rebels (" the cousins ").

* 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The " Regulators ", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

The FARC-EP had called its planned release of the hostages a gesture of recognition for the mediation efforts of Chávez, who had called on the international community to recognize the rebels as belligerents a month prior.

In his Memoirs, Sherman noted political pressures in 1864 – 1865 to encourage the escape of slaves, in part to avoid the possibility that "' able-bodied slaves will be called into the military service of the rebels.

In 1644, after the Ming Dynasty's capital of Beijing was sacked by the peasant rebels, the Jurchens ( now called Manchus ) allied with Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, overthrowing the short-lived Shun Dynasty and establishing Qing Dynasty rule ( 1644 – 1912 ) over all of China.

The duke then issued on 25 July a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by Louis's émigré cousin, the Prince de Condé, declaring the intent of the Austrians and Prussians to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

People who are described as " freedom fighters " are often also called assassins, rebels, insurgents, or terrorists.

A few weeks later the national army engaged Saigō's rebels in a frontal assault at what now is called the Battle of Tabaruzuka.

After pitching camp on Blackheath, Cornish rebels were defeated in the Battle of Deptford Bridge ( sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath ), just to the west, on 17 June 1497.

Finding several letters that condemned the rebels, Bradford and his band called for a military assembly to meet at Braddock's Field, about east of Pittsburgh.

Under the Ottoman Empire the leaders of Bulgaria's Haiduti ( Хайдути ) rebels were called " voevodes " ( Bulgarian, singular: войвода, voyvoda ).

The federals were attacked just south of Sikeston by a small group of rebels led by Confederate General M. Jeff Thompson called the Swamp Fox, a nickname previously belonging to Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion.

In order to get released Philip was forced to sign a treaty with Henry VII – the so called – which included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including the Earl of Suffolk who as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade agreement which allowed English merchants to import cloth duty free in to the Low Countries.

As an envoy of Maskhadov, he also met in London with the representatives of the Union of the Committees of Soldiers ' Mothers of Russia in February 2005, where they agreed on a peace proposal centred around a gradual cessation of violence by rebels corresponding with the three-week ceasefire unilaterally declared by Maskhadov ( who once again called for President of Russia Vladimir Putin to negotiate ).

The turning point came with the President's broadcast radio speech, in which he called on the rebels to surrender and ordered all Civil Guard members who were heading for Mäntsälä to return to their homes:

Using Barton and Hall's structure, Strehler also added several characters, including a Chorus, who used monologues from Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth and Timon of Athens, and two gravediggers called Bevis and Holland ( after the names of two of Cade's rebels in the Folio text of 2 Henry VI ), who commented ( with dialogue written by Strehler himself ) on each of the major characters as they set about burying them.

Using Barton and Hall's structure, Strehler also added several characters, including a Chorus, who used monologues from Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth and Timon of Athens, and two gravediggers called Bevis and Holland ( after the names of two of Cade's rebels in the Folio text ), who commented ( with dialogue written by Strehler himself ) on each of the major characters as they set about burying them.

Using Barton and Hall's structure, Strehler also added several characters, including a Chorus, who used monologues from Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth and Timon of Athens, and two gravediggers called Bevis and Holland ( after the names of two of Cade's rebels in the Folio text of 2 Henry VI ), who commented ( with dialogue written by Strehler himself ) on each of the major characters as they set about burying them.

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 ".

Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists ( Dekabristy, ).

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

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.

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.

Agreements also were struck with rebels from the National Front of Chad ( FNT ) and Movement for Social Justice and Democracy in October 1997.

Since October 1998, Chadian Movement for Justice and Democracy ( MDJT ) rebels, led by Youssuf Togoimi until his death in September 2002, have skirmished with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties, but little ground won or lost.

On November 25, 2006, rebels captured the eastern town of Abeche, capital of the Ouaddaï Region and center for humanitarian aid to the Darfur region in Sudan.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau served as stop-over points for Cuban troops on their way to Angola to fight UNITA rebels and South African troops.

It was also a haven for Gallic rebels and the like, and so could not be left alone much longer.

" She successfully appealed for the lives of the rebels involved in the Evil May Day for the sake of their families.

Because the British promised slaves of rebels freedom for fighting with them, escaped slaves flocked north to join their lines.

# North and South Kivu, where Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda ( FDLR ) continues to threaten the Rwandan border and the Banyamulenge, and where Rwanda supports RCD-Goma rebels against Kinshasa ( see Kivu war ).

In early 1964, a new crisis broke out as Congolese rebels calling themselves " Simba " ( Swahili for " Lion ") rebelled against the government.

It quickly became apparent that Quito's Criollo rebels lacked the anticipated popular support for their cause.

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.

In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.

" Thomas Johnson, the Labour leader thought there was, " no sign of sympathy for the rebels, but general admiration for their courage and strategy "