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  2. Spartacist uprising - Wikipedia

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    The Spartacist uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand) or, more rarely, Bloody Week, [3] was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.

  3. January 1919 - Wikipedia

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    Soldiers with the Freikorps are established to suppress the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. Spartacist uprising – The Freikorps attacked Spartacus League supporters throughout in Berlin. As most of the units were composed of World War I veterans who retained most of their military equipment, they were able to successfully put down the uprising ...

  4. Spartacus - Wikipedia

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    Spartacus [a] (/ ˈ s p ɑːr t ə k ə s /; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a century after his death.

  5. Weimar paramilitary groups - Wikipedia

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    The Freikorps especially took part in significant fighting in the Baltics, Silesia, Berlin during the Spartacist uprising and the Ruhr during the 1920 uprising there. [2] The paramilitary groups as a whole contributed significantly to the remilitarization of Germany between the wars. [4]

  6. List of Texas Revolution battles - Wikipedia

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    Texan Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73086-1. OCLC 29704011. Huson, Hobart (1974). Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Commandancy of Goliad, 1835–1836: An Episode of the Mexican Federalist War in Texas, Usually Referred to as the Texan Revolution. Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann ...

  7. Texian Army - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Revolution essentially ended on April 21, when the Texian Army routed a Mexican force and captured Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. [ 47 ] For six months David G. Burnet , ad interim President of the Republic, had diligently maintained the army laws set forth by the Consultation in December 1835.

  8. Gustav Noske - Wikipedia

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    The demonstration grew into the Spartacist uprising, which had the goal of replacing the national government with a council republic. [4] After the insurgents seized Berlin's city centre and the newspaper district, Ebert attempted to negotiate with them. When the discussions broke down, his major concern was with maintaining internal peace.

  9. George Fisher (settler) - Wikipedia

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    In 1837, he became a commission agent in Houston, in the Republic of Texas, and served as justice of the peace in 1839. [2] Fisher was admitted to the bar in 1840 and was elected to the Houston city council. In 1843 he became a major in the Texas militia. [2] He traveled to Panama in 1850 and on to California in 1851.