Wars and, more particularly, national military defeats have been decisive in prompting many revolutions.
By 1782 British military defeats made it clear that the Creeks would lose their British connection.
His government signed the latest ceasefire under pressure after suffering a series of spectacular military defeats.
Instead ʿAbd Allāh suffered famine and military defeats in the eastern Sudan.
Last year the M23 rebel movement, to which Ntaganda had been linked, suffered heavy military defeats.
The decline of the Ottoman Empire was marked by military defeats at the hands of Christian Europe and by a weakening of central authority.
The propaganda campaign coincided with territorial losses and military defeats in Iraq and Syria that one Kurdish commander hailed as the start of the group's "era of destruction".
Forced to abandon Taganrog (late January 1918) and threatened with the loss of the Don part of Rostov after several military defeats, he resigned and shot himself.
We thought we were still a great power compared to our continental neighbours, which had each suffered grievous military defeats during the Second World War.
Under Baʿth rule the country's foreign policy was driven by the Arab-Israeli dispute, which resulted in a number of Syrian military defeats.
The string of military defeats and the separatist revolts earlier had convinced Mahmud of the need for reforms in his army and administration.
