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A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a portion of a state. [2] A rebellion is often caused by political, religious, or social grievances that originate from a perceived inequality or marginalization.
A rebel is a participant in a rebellion. Rebel or rebels may also refer to: People. Rebel (given name) Rebel (surname) Patriot (American Revolution), during the ...
Rebel armies surrendered after the death of Phokas. [144] 993–995 Da Shu rebellion: Sichuan, China: Da Shu Kingdom: The Song dynasty was able to suppress the rebellion and restore their rule over the Shu region. [145] 996 Peasants' revolt in Normandy: Normandy: Norman peasants Suppression of the rebellion [146] 996-998 Revolt of Tyre (996–998)
The classification of rebels vs. revolutionaries, terrorists, insurgents, or freedom fighters is a controversial one. While "rebel" is a general term, a rebel may be called a "terrorist" by the authority figures and may call themself a "freedom fighter". A rebel who seeks to completely transform society should be in Category:Revolutionaries.
The Confederate government avoided the term "civil war", which assumes both combatants to be part of a single country, and so referred to it in official documents as the "War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America". [11] European diplomacy produced a similar formula for avoiding the phrase "civil war".
An illustration of the mutiny on the Bounty. 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 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 ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.