* 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

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 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.

An attack on the Chadian town of Adre near the Sudanese border led to the deaths of either one hundred rebels, as every news source other than CNN has reported, or three hundred rebels.

Soon after his enthronement, Saga himself took ill. Emperor Saga's untimely health problems provided former-Emperor Heizei with a unique opportunity to foment a rebellion ; however, forces loyal to Emperor Saga, led by taishōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, quickly defeated the Heizei rebels which thus limited the adverse consequences which would have followed any broader conflict.

In 1497, Michael An Gof and the Baron Callum of Perranporth led Cornish rebels in a march on London.

His conscription policies led to a popular Arab revolt in 1834, resulting in major casualties for the local Arab peasants and massacres of Christian and Jewish communities by the rebels.

The rebels were disorganized, had differing goals, and were poorly equipped, led, and trained, and had no outside support or funding.

On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.

This led to an inflammatory speech by Guinean president Lansana Conté which blamed the refugees for the border destabilization and alleged that the vast majority of refugees were rebels.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

After the Matale Rebellion led by Puran Appu in 1848, in which a number of Sinhalese recruits defected to the side of the rebels, the recruitment of Sinhalese to the British forces was temporarily halted and the Ceylon Regiments disbanded.

In the final accords of the First Jewish – Roman War, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire allegedly led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels although there is no archaeological evidence to support this.

* 1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

Later, in 1670 – 71 the Don Cossacks led by Stenka Razin initiated a major uprising in the Volga Region, but the Tsar's troops were successful in defeating the rebels.

Henry fought his next military campaign in Normandy from 1111 onwards, where rebels led by Robert of Bellême were opposing his rule.

In 1641, rebel forces led by Li Zicheng sacked the monastery due to the monks ' support of the Ming Dynasty and the possible threat they posed to the rebels.

In the abortive Uva-Welessa revolt of 1817-1818 of the British times, led by Keppetipola Disawe, the Veddas too fought with the rebels against the British forces.

* In central Persia, the Muzzafarid Empire, led by Shah Mansur, rebels against their Timurid occupiers.

The rebels intended to dethrone George in favor of the king's fraternal nephew, Demna, who was considered by many to be a legitimate royal heir of his murdered father, David V. Demna's cause was little but a pretext for the nobles, led by the pretender's father-in-law, the amirspasalar (" constable ") Ivane Orbeli, to weaken the crown.

* June 12 – Peasants ' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath.

In the east, only the Tyrolese rebels led by Andreas Hofer continued to fight the French-Bavarian army until finally defeated in November 1809, while in the west the Peninsular War continued.

The Kōga ninja were recruited by shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu against Christian rebels led by Amakusa Shirō, who made a final stand at Hara Castle, in Hizen Province.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

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

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.

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.

Next year Jourdain again incurred the displeasure of the church by siding with the rebels of Montpellier against their lord.

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 ).

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

He managed to capture Castra Vetera, the Romans lost two legions while two others ( I Germanica and XVI Gallica ) were controlled by the rebels.

In 614, the Persian Sassanid Empire, supported by Jewish rebels, invaded Palestina Prima and captured Bethlehem.

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.

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.

They are used to strike enemy positions by the Chadian Air Force, but one has been shot down by rebels.

At the same time it is difficult to have an open policy towards neighbouring countries when they are used as safe haven by rebels regularly attacking Central African Republic ( C. A. R.

This terror and the crimes carried out during MLC's war against Bozizé's rebels between October 2002 and March 2003 is now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, which says it has identified 600 rape victims and the real numbers are expected to be higher.

Most of the crimes were committed by Congolese MLC soldiers, but Bozizé's rebels, including elements from Chad, were also responsible.

Since the incident on 19 September 2002 ( see History of Ivory Coast ), a civil war broke out, and the north part of the country has been seized by the rebels, the New Forces ( FN ).

If so, according to, this incident resulted that the Bi officials inadvertently revolted against their own lord through Confucius ' doing, thus forcing Viscount Ji Huan's hand in having to dismantle the walls of Bi ( as it could have harbored such rebels ) or confess to instigating the event by going against proper conduct and righteousness as an official.

Similarly, rebels who took power in the city but with the citadel still held by the former rulers could by no means regard their tenure of power as secure.

From an early stage, the rebels received decisive financial and military support from the United States government, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time.

A Sandinista militiaman interviewed by The Guardian stated that Contra rebels committed these atrocities against Sandinista prisoners after a battle at a Sandinista rural outpost: " Rosa had her breasts cut off.