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  2. Bussa's rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The rebellion takes its name from the African-born enslaved man, Bussa, who led the rebellion. The rebellion, which was eventually defeated by the colonial militia, was the first of three mass slave rebellions in the British West Indies that shook public faith in slavery in the years leading up to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire ...

  3. Category:1816 in Barbados - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1816 in Barbados" ... Bussa's rebellion This page was last edited on 3 March 2019, at 17:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  4. Matamoros Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Matamoros Expedition was a planned 1836 invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros by rebellious Texians.As the Mexican government transitioned from federalism to a centralized government in 1835, many federalists offered armed opposition.

  5. List of revolutions and rebellions - Wikipedia

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    Rebellion eventually defeated by Xerxes I, Babylon's fortifications were destroyed and its temples were ransacked. [17] 464 BC Third Messenian War: Sparta: Messenian Helots: Slave revolt put down by Archidamus II, who called Sparta to arms in the wake of an earthquake. [18] 460–454 BC Inaros' revolt Egypt, Achaemenid Empire: Inaros II and his ...

  6. Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition - Wikipedia

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    In Texas their numbers increased to 300, and they proceeded to take the town of Santísima Trinidad de Salcedo (located on the east bank of the Trinity River at Spanish Bluff, ten miles downriver from the present Highway 31 crossing), on September 13. Their success would push them on; they traveled southward, to conquer the next Spanish stronghold.

  7. Spanish American wars of independence - Wikipedia

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    A green flag from the expedition represented the rebels. The Northern Republican Army was defeated in the bloodiest battle in Texas, the Battle of Medina. Thus, Texas was incorporated into the Mexican Independence, and later Texas Independence and its annexation to the United States took place. The United States remained neutral.

  8. Battle of San Patricio - Wikipedia

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    Texian Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73086-1. OCLC 29704011. Lack, Paul D. (1992). The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-497-2. Reid, Stuart (2007). The Secret ...

  9. Thomas Moody (geopolitician) - Wikipedia

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    James Leith (b. 25 June 1816, Barbados, d. 1896). Named after Sir James Leith, [19] to whom his father had served as aide-de-camp during the Napoleonic Wars, [25] [29] and of whom his father was an admirer. [19] James Leith Moody was educated at Tonbridge School and at St Mary Hall, Oxford.