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The Great Rebellion or Great Revolt is a term that is generally used in English for the following conflicts: First Jewish–Roman War in 66–73 CE, also known as the Great Revolt of Judaea; Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion; English Civil War in 1642–1651, also called English Revolution
The Roman effort at Masada, deploying vast resources and engineering ingenuity to eliminate a small pocket of resistance in an isolated desert fortress of no strategic importance, may have been intended as a message to those considering rebellion: the Romans would relentlessly pursue and crush rebels, even at great cost, to eradicate any trace ...
The Lunenburg Rebellion Great Britain: immigrant rebels Rebellion suppressed 1755–1769 The revolution that ended Genoese rule and established a Corsican Republic: Republic of Genoa: Corsican Republic: Revolution was brought to an end by the French conquest of Corsica: 1760 Tacky's War: Great Britain. Colony of Jamaica Maroon allies. Enslaved ...
From the Restoration to the 19th century, the common phrase for the civil wars was "the rebellion" or "the great rebellion". [2] The wars spanning all four countries are known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In the early 19th century, Sir Walter Scott referred to it as "The Great Civil War". [3]
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...
A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, later known as the Great Revolt, [a] [10] the Great Palestinian Revolt, [b] [11] or the Palestinian Revolution, [c] lasted from 1936 until 1939.