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Great Rebellion

American  
Great Rebellion British  

noun

  1. another name for the English Civil War

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Walford, Edwin

The Great Rebellion, however, acted as the Reformation had done in Germany, and Cavaliers and Roundheads caricatured each other freely.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

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 White, Horace

The Great Rebellion broke out, Charles i. was put to death and his son exiled.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

A term applied generally to the clergy about the time of the Great Rebellion.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

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