The phrase "abortive insurrection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a failed or unsuccessful uprising or rebellion against authority or government.
Example: "The government swiftly quelled the abortive insurrection, restoring order to the region."
Alternatives: "failed uprising" or "unsuccessful rebellion".
After Apristas staged an abortive insurrection in Callao, near Lima, the president outlawed the party.
In 1848 he undertook the defense of the Young Ireland leaders, who were charged with high treason for their abortive insurrection that year.
In 1832, disguised as a peasant, she crossed the French border from Italy and made her way to the Vendée, where she succeeded in instigating a brief but abortive insurrection (June 1832).
Eventually all these factors led the way to the abortive insurrection known as the "Grito de Lares", whose date had to be brought forward to September 23 , 1868
The discovery and execution at Belfiore (1852 53) of the leaders of a conspiracy in Mantua, as well as abortive insurrections in Cadore and Lunigiana, discredited the democratic movement and discouraged its most dedicated adherents.
Sentenced to death for his role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834, Garibaldi fled to South America, where he joined two successive fights for independence--Rio Grande do Sul's against Brazil and Uruguay's against Argentina.
When de Gaulle slowly moved toward giving Algeria its independence, Salan felt himself betrayed and was one of four generals who led an abortive military insurrection in Algeria on April 22 , 1961
Duffy was seized just before an abortive attempt at insurrection (August 1848) and imprisoned until 1849.
In 1848 he was involved, with William Smith O'Brien, in an abortive attempt to mount an insurrection against English rule.
Planning an insurrection?
There was a small insurrection.
