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Zimri
Zimri , in the Bible, king of Israel for a few days. He was one of Elah's generals; he killed the king and held the throne until Omri rebelled.... Read more |
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Battle of Ballymore Hill
Ballymore Hill, battle of, 1798. Father Murphy, leading the Wexford rebels, ambushed a small detachment of British troops on 4 June near Enniscorthy, killing their commander, Colonel Lambert Walpole, and taking several guns. Though no more than a skirmish, it gave great encouragement to the rebels.... Read more |
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Battle of Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill, battle of, 1798. Part of the Wexford rebels in the Irish rising made camp on Vinegar Hill, just outside Enniscorthy, where they terrorized the protestants of the neighbourhood. On 21 June 1798, having recovered from their initial surprise, government forces under General Lake stormed... Read more |
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Robert Kett
Robert Kett d. 1549, English rebel. He led an agrarian revolt in 1549 as a protest against the enclosure of common land for sheep grazing. With 16,000 men he blockaded Norwich, but was defeated and executed.... Read more |
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Korah
Korah , in the Bible. 1 Levite leader, with Dathan and Abiram, of the unsuccessful revolt in the desert against the exclusive priesthood of the Aaronic family and against the leadership of Moses; the rebels were consumed by fire and earthquake. 2 Levitical family, perhaps descended from 1, ... Read more |
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Chita
Chita , city (1989 pop. 366,000), capital of Chita region, SE Siberian Russia, at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda rivers and on the Trans-Siberian RR. Railroad and food-processing equipment are manufactured. Founded in 1653, Chita was a place of exile of the 19th-century Decembrist rebels. ... Read more |
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Bloody Assizes 1685
Bloody Assizes was the name given to the mass trials of Monmouth's rebels in 1685, presided over by Jeffreys and four other judges. Nearly all the 1,300 prisoners were undoubtedly guilty of treason, for which the sentence was death by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering. The revulsion against... Read more |
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rising of the northern earls
northern earls, rising of the, 1569. This was one of the most serious risings on behalf of the old religion during the Tudor period. Between November and December 1569, Thomas, earl of Northumberland, and Charles, earl of Westmorland, mustered a rebel army in the northern counties and gained... Read more |
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Battle of Losecoat Field
Losecoat Field, battle of, 1470. Soon after his capture by Warwick's supporters after the defeat of his troops at Edgecote, Edward IV succeeded in regaining some freedom of action. In the spring of the following year, Warwick gave covert support to a Lancastrian rising in Lincolnshire, led by Sir... Read more |
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North Africa Campaign
...November, four days after the British stopped German general Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in Egypt, the Anglo‐American landings commenced...and nighttime beach landings. The Allies aided Free French rebels and overwhelmed Vichy French resistance, which was relatively... |
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Torch, Operation
...8, four days after the British stopped German general Erwin Rommel in Egypt, the Anglo-American landings commenced with port...and nighttime beach landings. The Allies aided Free French rebels and overwhelmed Vichy French resistance. As a result of the... |
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Monty, Rommel can't help me, says leader of Libya's unruly rebels
...history of Montgomery and Rommel's war in the African...commander of Libya's rebel army has said this knowledge...in beachfront villas. Rebels from the city of Misrata...Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, he...But he said copying ... |
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Ebb and flow mirrors Rommel's desert war
...was a prize sought by Erwin Rommel, the German commander of the...stronghold from which Libya's rebels have pushed out along the coast...colony.And where today both rebel forces and Gaddafi's army...was a master of such war.Rommel initially came to notice ... |
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AFP in Lanao gears for possible diversionary attacksBy Rommel G. Rebollido.
...vital installations amid threats that Moro rebels will resort to diversionary attacks to...on the ongoing operations to get Moro rebel leader Abdulrahman Macapaar alias Commander...spokesman, said they were expecting the rebels to resort to some diversionary moves in... |
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4 rebels, soldiers killed in clash.(Provincial News)
...New People's Army (NPA) rebels and two soldiers were killed...activities of the communist rebels led by Delfin de Guzman aka...Intelligence reports said the rebels were in the barangay to hide...Infantry Brigade under Colonel Rommel Gomez, caught up with the ... |
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Libya rebels push west again, but Sirte awaits.(World)
...Brega and Ras Lanuf that the rebels reclaimed this morning. After Erwin Rommel and his Africa Korps landed...it took just two months for Rommel to lose all that territory...Qaddafi's key stronghold. The rebels have learned hard lessons in...of civilian ... |
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Philippine NPA rebel to free 2 government soldiers
...held captive by the Philippine rebel New People's Army (NPA...from Luis Jalandoni, chief rebel peace negotiator, that the two soldiers Ronald Fidelino and Rommel Nemeno would be freed Wednesday...Sur on Sunday to secured the rebel's release of the two ... |
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Ex-rebel jubilantly receives gov't livelihood package.
By Rommel G. Rebollido GENERAL SANTOS...PNA) -- A former communist rebel who gave up life on the run...He was one of seven former rebels who were presented by the...brothers who have joined the rebel movement." She also urged other rebels to ... |
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3 NPAs nabbed at AFP-PNP checkpoint.
...others are Mariano Julongbayan, alias Tito Garcia and Rommel, the rebel group's finance officer in the province; and Ruelito...from politicians who appeared to have given in from the rebel group's extortion activities. "The three further... |
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Lawrence Wells of Oxford: an interview.(Interview)
...energetic and compelling novels - Rommel and the Rebel (1986) and Let the Band Play Dixie...thinking as an editor - before I got Rommel and the Rebel going. I'd already...writing skills. But then after Rommel and the Rebel ... |
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One Philippine Marine killed in Abu Sayyaf attack
...26 (Xinhua) -- Abu Sayyaf rebels Sunday attacked a government project...Monday. Marine spokesman Capt. Rommel Abrau said the rebels swooped down on the project site...fighting for 15 minutes before the rebels began to retreat, resulting in... |
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