Great Rebellion

American  

noun

1. English Civil War.

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Great Rebellion British  

noun

1. another name for the English Civil War

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Example Sentences

Its incidents had little or no connexion with those of the Great Rebellion, but its results influenced the struggle in England to a considerable extent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

A Novel of the Great Rebellion of 1861.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry

Walker emphatically mentions, among the sufferings of a clergyman's wife and family in the Great Rebellion, that they were forced to drink water with crab-apples stamped in to relish it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

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