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Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders. The term is commonly used for insubordination by members of the military against an officer or superior, but it can also sometimes mean any type of rebellion against any force.
Revolt suppressed, Jacob and Simon executed by Tiberius Julius Alexander. [68] 60–61 Boudican revolt: Norfolk, Britain, Roman Empire: Celtic Britons led by Boudica: Revolt crushed by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. [69] 66–73 First Jewish–Roman War: Judea: Jewish people: Revolt crushed by the Roman Empire, Jerusalem and the Second Temple are ...
A revolt is a rebellion with an aim to replace a government, authority figure, law, or policy. [5] If a government does not recognize rebels as belligerents , then they are insurgents and the revolt is an insurgency . [ 6 ]
The right of revolution only gave a people the right to rebel against unjust rule, not any rule: "whoever, either ruler or subject, by force goes about to invade the rights of either prince or people, and lays the foundation for overturning the constitution and frame of any just government, he is guilty of the greatest crime I think a man is ...
The War in the Vendée was a royalist uprising against revolutionary France in 1793–1796.. A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part.
The name Luddite (/ ˈ l ʌ d aɪ t /) occurs in the movement's writings as early as 1811. [3]The movement utilised the eponym of Ned Ludd, an apocryphal apprentice who allegedly smashed two stocking frames in 1779 after being criticized and instructed to change his method.
The aristocratic chronicler Jean Froissart and his source, the chronicle of Jean le Bel, referred to the leader of the revolt as Jacque Bonhomme ("Jack Goodfellow"), though in fact the Jacquerie 'great captain' was named Guillaume Cale. The word jacquerie became a synonym of peasant uprisings in general in both English and French. [4]
Apostasy (/ ə ˈ p ɒ s t ə s i /; Ancient Greek: ἀποστασία, romanized: apostasía, lit. 'defection, revolt') is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person.