Great Rebellion
Americannoun
noun
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Some tracts relating to the period of the Great Rebellion were bought at the sale of Dr. Bandinel's extensive Caroline collection.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
There is a similar difference between the Revolt of the Netherlands, the Great Rebellion, the War of Independence, or the rising of Brabant, on the one hand, and the French Revolution on the other.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
In the early days of the Great Rebellion the island was fortified for the Parliament, and, like Poole, it withstood the attacks of the Royalists.
From Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch by E. W. Haslehust
The Copes were with the people in the time of the Great Rebellion, and after Edge Hill the Castle was taken by the Royalists.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
Botts, John Minor, his Great Rebellion quoted on Lincoln's offer to evacuate Sumter, 159, 160; denies Baldwin's story, 160, 161.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
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