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The English Revolution is a term that has been used to describe two separate events in English history.Prior to the 20th century, it was generally applied to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, when James II was deposed and a constitutional monarchy established under William III and Mary II.
He was a supporter of the Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng (DVQDD, Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam), a Roman Catholic political movement. [1] Đức joined the French-backed Vietnamese National Army, which became the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) after the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) was established
Upon Viet Minh's victory over French in 1954, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) unified all Buddhist sect into an organization called Unified Buddhist Association of Vietnam (Hội Phật giáo Thống nhất Việt Nam) in 1958. [2] [6] The first leader was Thích Trí Độ, and the headquarter was in Hanoi.
The Glorious Revolution [a], also known as The Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange , a nephew of James who thereby had an interest to the throne irrespective of his marriage to Mary, his first cousin.
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution culminated in the American Revolutionary War , which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord , on April 19, 1775.
Seeing the French influence in Vietnam with alarm, the British Empire sent two envoys to Gia Long in 1803 and 1804 to convince him to abandon his friendship with the French. [70] In 1808, a British fleet led by William O'Bryen Drury mounted an attack on the Red River Delta, but was soon driven back by the Vietnamese navy and suffered several ...
The old Vietnam Modernization Association had become effectively defunct, with its members scattered. A new organization needed to be formed, with a new agenda inspired by the Chinese revolution. A large meeting was held in late March 1912. They agreed to form a new group, the Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội (Vietnam Restoration League). Cường ...
The August Revolution (Vietnamese: Cách-mạng tháng Tám), also known as the August General Uprising (Vietnamese: Tổng khởi-nghĩa giành chính-quyền tháng Tám, lit. 'the Total uprising to seize power in August'), was a revolution led by the Việt Minh against the Empire of Vietnam from 16 August to 2