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Great Rebellion

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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 village during the time of the Great Rebellion was held as a Royalist outpost in the Banbury area.

From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin

His Diaries have been extensively drawn upon by Forster, Gardiner, and by Sanford in his Studies of the Great Rebellion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

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 military events of the war are described in the article Great Rebellion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

During and after the Great Rebellion, the pamphlet had made its appearance as the chief instrument of controversy.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

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