Sentence examples for insurrection spread from inspiring English sources

Insurrection spread to Belgium, Switzerland, a number of German and Italian states and Poland.

The insurrection spread, and the army was asked to take action against the insurgents.

In northern and central Italy the insurrection spread but little and could be sufficiently guarded against with small detachments.

Although the National Guard regained partial control, the insurrection spread, with another general strike and the Sandinistas seizing and holding several major cities.

The insurrection spread beyond Poland into Lithuania and a section of Belorussia and attracted volunteers from the portions of Poland under Prussian and Austrian rule.

After the bloody suppression of an uprising in Madrid, insurrection spread across the whole country, for the Spaniards would not accept Joseph Bonaparte, king of Naples, as their new king.

The uprising spread quickly to other parts of Chiapas, and in the ensuing years insurrections broke out in the nearby states of Guerrero, Veracruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca.

Others, such as the Germans, were put in places that were thought relatively safe, but now that the insurrection has spread, they, too, are in harm's way.

Today once again the insurrection has spread through the mineral-rich forests of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, and West Bengal— homeland to millions of India's tribal people, dreamland to the corporate world.

The insurrection, which spread across the Shiite heartland in a matter of hours, came five days after the ambush in the predominantly Sunni Muslim city of Falluja, outside Baghdad, in which a mob mutilated the bodies of four American security guards and hanged two of them from a bridge.

With the probable encouragement of local communist cadres, the insurrection quickly spread throughout the whole region.