In 756, when Chang'an was occupied by the troops of the rebellious general An Lushan, Wang was captured and taken to the rebel capital at Luoyang, where he was forced to accept a post in the administration.
Having ousted one rebellious general, the president now has little choice but to confront -- or cave in to -- the entire COIN cult, including its guru.
They were reported to be followers of Lino Oviedo, a rebellious ex-general who sought asylum in Argentina last March.
In 1580, during the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch stadtholder of Friesland, George van Lalaing, Count of Rennenberg, though having been appointed by the rebellious States-General, shifted his allegiance to the Spanish government, held at that time by Don Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma.
Man of Steel sees Superman attempt to save the world while battling General Zod, a rebellious military leader from his home planet of Krypton - played by Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon.
In Washington's case, the spur wasn't crime or gentrification but the British, who, in their efforts to subdue the rebellious colonies, had already chased the American general and his forces from Long Island.
Over the course of those nine days, I interviewed three government ministers, an army general and the mayor of a rebellious city.
These actions stimulated both British and rebel leaders to consider the possibility of an invasion of the Province of Quebec by the rebellious forces of the Second Continental Congress, and Quebec's governor, General Guy Carleton, began mobilizing the provincial defenses.
In January 1649 he presented himself to the rebellious Parlement of Paris and became one of the generals of the first Fronde (Fronde of the Parlement, June 1648 March 1649).
"The War Not For Abolition" was the paper's bold headline for an article intended "to remove all misapprehension in regard to the policy of the general government in prosecuting the war against the rebellious States".
In 1582 Nobunaga was wounded by a rebellious subordinate and committed suicide; Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his most brilliant general, quickly avenged the death and moved to assume Nobunaga's preeminent political position.
