Sentence examples for launched a revolt from inspiring English sources

During the minority of King Charles VIII, he launched a revolt and was imprisoned (1488).

In 1185 the brothers Ivan and Peter Asen of Tŭrnovo launched a revolt to throw off Byzantine sovereignty.

On November 1 1954, the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), founded four months earlier, launched a revolt throughout Algeria.

Los concuñados del cuarenta y siete, by Luisa Moreno Sartorio, a Paraguayan Argentine author, is set in Paraguay in 1947, when the Liberal Party launched a revolt against the country's president and the ruling Colorado Party that resulted in a devastating civil war.

He left a small garrison there and departed, but the inhabitants launched a revolt soon after.

From this position, he launched a revolt in July 803, probably in opposition to Nikephoros's economic and religious policies.

In the course of the 18th century, however, a number of changes occurred both in the international situation and in Greek society itself that gave rise to hopes that the Greeks might themselves launch a revolt against Ottoman authority with some promise of success.

As Rousseff launched a digital revolt following the NSA scandal, the US government recognized it was facing something more serious than a bunch of UN experts or civil society activists from the South.

The Moors launched a general revolt and inflicted a severe defeat on the Byzantines in Thacia in 545.

In early February, the Cannibal Army became the Artibonite Resistance Front, and launched a full-scale revolt.

Across California, voters passed Proposition 13, launching a tax revolt that began the erosion of public funding for what had been the country's best school system.