The Revolutionary War - Rise to Rebellion

Regardless of the close ties of people and culture with Britain, the colonists started the American Revolutionary War. They also invited the habitants, of which the major population in Quebec was composed, to stage a rebellion with them. An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... The attitudes toward British reign between the Thirteen Colonies and the Province of Quebec ...

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As a result, revolutionary nationalism was seen by a growing group as a viable option. Cause #1 Small group of revolutionary nationalist's stage an uprising. ... The rebels seized on WW1 as an opportunity for rebellion, acting on the thought that "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity". ... Cause #4 British responses to the Sin Fein mandate Sinn Fein dominated, the 1918 general election, gaining 73 seats compared to the INP 's 7, signifying the change in mood amongst the Irish people with the drop in support for constitutional nationalism and rise in s...

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Benjamin Martin knew the horrors of war and was a great warrior in the French and Indian war. At the time of the rebellion from Great Britain, Martin was a father with a large family to care for. ... This is why the colonists made it through and won the war. ... We have seen rebellions throughout history that end with a dictator in power; Castro's rise to power in Cuba, the Communist rise in China and dozens of other places. ... Others felt no need to leave the blanket of Great Britain; still others felt they couldn't trust such extreme revolutionaries that were pushing for war. ...

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The Easter Rising Three weeks after the war had started in Europe, a meeting was held at which it was decided that Ireland should make use of the European war to rise in rebellion against England. ... The British saw the Easter rising as a threat, the British could not afford to fight two wars at the time because Britain was at war with Germany in the first world war. ... Jhon Dillon 1916 he was a leading nationalist MP There was an Irish Catholic Rebellion lead by the Catholic English King, James the 2nd who was trying to regain his throne. ... The Irish rebellion was lead by wolf tone...

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They send representatives to the council that is in charge of organizing the rebellion, the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Commitee. ... "So we decided that there is no way other than to organize and rise up like this in armed struggle. So we began to organize ourselbes like that, secretly, in a revolutionary organization. ... Even though they have been surrounded by thousands of Mexican troops and are experiencing low intensity warfare, they have still managed to beat the giants and in some ways to reenact some of the old Mayan war stories of big defeats done by small children. .....

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The Mexican War/The War Against Iraq The Mexican war between the U.S. and Mexico was started because of a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on April 25, 1846. ... Numerous rebellions had occurred within Mexican territory and the Texas revolution had resulted in the independence of Texas. ... But, in 1979, this relationship fell when Iranian revolutionaries deposed the American-backed shah and took U.S. hostages. ... President Bush called to Iraqis to rise up against Saddam, and many Iraqi Kurds and Shiites did. But U.S. forces did not reinforce...

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In the years following 1815, the four great powers, Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia, agreed to hold periodic conferences to discuss matters affecting the Vienna Settlement 1814-1815, and to discuss the maintenance of order in Europe which was destroyed by the Napoleon Wars which lasted for over 20 years. In the year 1789, the French revolution broke out, a series of revolutionary wars began, leading to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. ... Congress of Verona 1822 , when French troops were used against rebellion in Spain and which Britain withdrew from the Quintuple Alliance afterwards ...

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The American Revolution in 1776 was not a first war in America that fought for freedom, but before the American Revolution, there was another revolutionary war that fought for the same reasons. People seem to be forgetting and not realize that we did have a revolutionary war before the American Revolution in 1776. ... However, this war was very important to the Native American because it was a bloody war that the Native American rebelled against the Spanish's government in 1680. ... What were the reasons for this great rebellion, and why did it happen exactly in 1680? ... Therefore, ...

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This particular book dealt with the notion that the Russian peasantry was a viable revolutionary force, but lacked the capability of developing on its own. ... His solution was a revolutionary party that would come from the bourgeoisie and be composed mainly of middle class intellectuals. Digging farther he describes the party as being a small, highly centralized, highly disciplined, conspiratorial band of professional revolutionaries. ... War Communisms shelf life only lasted to the end of the civil war when Lenin went against his ideology and abolished it to avoid rebellion. ... The offi...

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