Add in the American Indian wars, and assume the larger British and French empires were usually fighting two insurrections at once, and you get eleven battle days/day. In World War II, counting four Allied fronts against Japan and five against Germany/Italy, plus partisan activities in ...
The emergence of Antigua and Barbuda as an independent nation was the result of the confluence of a number of international currents with the local struggles for decolonization. The turning point in this history of anticolonial struggle was the series of peasant/worker insurrections that occurred in...
The Calling Forth Clause empowers Congress to “provide for” — that is, to regulate and control — the authority and procedures for “calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.” As Justice Jackson explained in Youngstown, this prov...
working in the family hotel in Ennis, the St Stephen’s Green Club in Dublin and the world’s first duty-free shop in Shannon Airport, where he is credited with inventing Irish coffee. In 1959 he was appointed by Seán Lemass as the first head of the Shannon...
They served primarily as luxurious homes for the daimyo, their families and retainers, and to protect the daimyo, and his power base, against peasant uprisings and other internal insurrections. The Tokugawa shogunate, to forestall the amassing of power on the part of the daimyo, enforced a ...
In response, the Spanish authorities use prison, exile, torture and death to quell insurrections. 1810: US President James Madison instructs his minister to Great Britain to warn the British that the United States will not sit idly by if Britain were to try to gain possession of Cuba. ...
In Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark it manifested itself in peaceful reforms of existing institutions, but democratic insurrections broke out in the capitals of the three great monarchies,… Read More television history In television: Mechanical systems …by John Logie Baird in Britain (see the...
Anotherlegacyof Vietnam was a debate over the war-making powers of thepresident of the United States. Article I of theU.S. Constitutiongives only Congress the power “to declare war” and “to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and...
the beginnings of an intense east-west hostility had grown into several insurrections. In 1768 western North Carolinans organized themselves into theRegulatorsto defy government policies, and, after being suppressed by the governor’s militia, many moved away from the colony. Hostility to British rul...
and insurrections broke out. Dōst Moḥammad—who had escaped first to Balkh, then to Bukhara, where he was arrested—escaped from prison and returned to Afghanistan to lead his partisans against the British. In a battle atParwan on November 2, 1840, Dōst Moḥammad had the upper hand...