In time Étienne was back in good graces with the cardinal, and in 1639 had been appointed the king's commissioner of taxes in the city of Rouen — a city whose tax records, thanks to uprisings, were in utter chaos.

The presenters often have expertise in the story they are sent to cover, for example, former Paris correspondent Jon Sopel presented coverage of the 2007 French presidential elections, while channel presenters and former reporters Ben Brown and Clive Myrie were dispatched to Cairo and Tripoli during the Middle East uprisings.

These interventions were meant to put an end to democratic liberalization efforts and uprisings that had the potential to compromise Soviet hegemony inside the Eastern bloc, which was considered by the Soviets to be an essential defensive and strategic buffer in case hostilities with NATO were to break out.

Poland was restored and most of the provinces of Posen and West Prussia, and some areas of Upper Silesia were reincorporated into the reformed country after plebiscites and independence uprisings.

Espartero's liberal reforms were then opposed by moderates, and the former general's heavy-handedness caused a series of sporadic uprisings throughout the country from various quarters, all of which were bloodily suppressed.

During this time there were many racial tensions, and Jamaica had one of the highest instances of slave uprisings of any Caribbean island.

The colony's slaves, who outnumbered their white masters by a ratio of 20: 1 in 1800, mounted over a dozen major slave conspiracies ( the majority of which were organized by Coromantins ), and uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's revolt in 1760.

For example, uprisings of Isatay Taymanuly and Makhambet Utemisuly in 1836 – 1838 and the war led by Eset Kotibaruli in 1847 – 1858 were one of such events of anti-colonial resistance.

In the emerging Soviet state there appeared Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks which were a series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups including Socialist Revolutionaries, Left Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and anarchists.

In some cases these states were simply overthrown by nationalist uprisings in the 19th century.

In the 1950s, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party denounced the Constitution and Muñoz Marín support as a sham, and staged a series of uprisings in 1950, known as the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, of which the most notable were the ones in Jayuya, Utuado and San Juan, plus the attack on Blair House, and the United States House of Representatives in 1954.

There were uprisings in many cities and towns, mainly located in the southern part of the country.

There were anti-Soviet uprisings in East Germany, Poland in 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

He notes that the 1880s saw the Mahdi uprisings, the first time the Western world had to face militant Islamic fundamentalism ; physicists were beginning to make discoveries that would pave the way to the atomic bomb ; and the growth of both Zionism and anti-Semitism.

These notions were what prompted him to investigate the peasant uprisings in Hunan while the rest of the China's communists were in the cities and focused on the orthodox Marxist proletariat.

After setting up and ambush and attacking their lightly armoured Humvee vehicles with small arms fire and RPG ’ s the patrol stopped and Macedonian forces and guerrillas exchanged fire in a short skirmish, after soldiers started retreating half of the patrol managed to escape one soldier was shot and 7 others captured and allegedly executed with knives and then their corpses were allegedly burned. News of the massacre sparked local uprisings against Muslim Albanians in several towns and cities across Macedonia, and such revolts included burning and vandalising shops and Mosques.

Roman legions entered Provence three times ; first in 181 BC the Romans suppressed Ligurian uprisings near Genoa ; in 154 BC the Roman Consul Optimus defeated the Oxybii and the Deciates, who were attacking Antibes ; and in 125 BC, the Romans put down an uprising of a confederation of Celtic tribes.

These widespread popular and clerical uprisings, which found support among the gentry and even the nobility, were collectively known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Indigenous uprisings aimed at Spanish subjugation plagued the territory at this time, and they were re-interpreted by the Republicans to serve their purpose and show popular support for independence.

There were numerous rebellions against slavery and serfdom, most often in conjunction with Cossack uprisings, such as the uprisings of Ivan Bolotnikov ( 1606 – 1607 ), Stenka Razin ( 1667 – 1671 ), Kondraty Bulavin ( 1707 – 1709 ), and Yemelyan Pugachev ( 1773 – 1775 ), often involving hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions.

The Kuomintang's " Second Revolution " ended in failure as Yuan's troops achieved complete victory over revolutionary uprisings.

Even in Piedmont, King Vittorio Emanuele I, undecided what to do, abdicated in favor of his brother Charles Felix of Sardinia, who asked Austria to intervene militarily: April 8, the Hapsburg army defeated the rebels and the uprisings of 1820-1821, triggered almost entirely by the Carbonari, ended up in a total failure.

After he was announced as the new President, the government intervened together with the army and right wing Freikorps against the leftist uprisings, which resulted in the death of several left politicians and ended the partnership of the S. P. D.

The Greater Poland Uprising is one of the two most successful Polish uprisings: the other was the Great Poland Uprising of 1806 which was ended by the entry of Napoleon's army.

After uprisings ended, the knights built the Ordensburg out of stone from 1274-80.

Successive governments have dealt forcefully with Chakma uprisings, and finally ended the conflict with The 1997 Peace Treaty.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

As the Space Race gathered momentum, the continuing turmoil of decolonisation visited wars, coups, famine, armed uprisings and violent repression on countries across South and Central America, Africa and Asia.

The uprisings of 1910-1912, and the Montenegrin, Serbian, and Greek invasion of Albania, led to the proclamation of independence by Ismail Qemali in Vlora, on 28 November 1912.

* Arab Spring, uprisings which began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia

The Kuomintang is anti separatist, and during its rule on mainland China, it crushed Uyghur and Tibetan separatist uprisings.

In early 1927, Mao returned to Hunan where, in an urgent meeting held by the Communist Party, he made a report based on his investigations of the peasant uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition.

From 1850 until 1903, the United States used troops to suppress separatist uprisings and quell social disturbances on many occasions, creating a long-term animosity among the Panamanian people against the US military and resentment against Bogotá.

Having been imposed by a foreign power, and relying on French troops to survive, the Helvetic Republic was highly unpopular and encountered severe economic and political problems and uprisings.

In late 1401, the new war against the Order overstretched the resources of the Lithuanians, who found themselves fighting on two fronts after uprisings in the eastern provinces.

" Reports that Zhou " organized " or " ordered " the second and third uprisings on 20 February and 21 March exaggerate his role.

Slave uprisings repressed in Attic silver mines and on the island of Delos.

Simón Bolívar noticed the Guadalupan theme in these uprisings, and shortly before Morelos ' execution in 1815 wrote: " the leaders of the independence struggle have put fanaticism to use by proclaiming the famous Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of the patriots, praying to her in times of hardship and displaying her on their flags ... the veneration for this image in Mexico far exceeds the greatest reverence that the shrewdest prophet might inspire.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard also took a commanding role in civil defense and emergency response on the West Coast, dispatching warships to the Pacific Northwest to subdue Native American uprisings.

Based on the 1976 Soweto youth uprisings, Sarafina!

was re-released in South Africa on 16 June 2006 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the youth uprisings in Soweto.

To sponsor more uprisings, Sun made a personal plea for financial aid at the Penang conference held on 13 November 1910 in Malaya.

At the same time, increasing unrest and uprisings by serfs and peasants, like Tyler ’ s Rebellion in England in 1381, put pressure on the nobility and the clergy to reform the system.

In order to win the war against the French, Vienna was counting on massive nationalist, anti-French, uprisings throughout Germany and hoping that an early success might convince Prussia to join the new Coalition, while calculating that Russia would most likely not interfere in support of the French.

To prevent further uprisings he introduced countrywide policing on a local basis, appointing Lords Lieutenants who were in close contact with the central authority.

The rise of the working class on the continent began not with humanitarianism but with the Revolution or uprisings of 1848.

The Girondist role in the government was undermined by the popular uprisings of 27 and 31 May, and, finally, on 2 June 1793, François Hanriot, head of the Paris National Guards, purged the Convention of the Girondists.

His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.