Word: rebellion
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June 17. Colonial forces driven from Breed's hill, near Boston's Bunker hill, but inflict casualties of 1,150. Aug. 23. George III proclaims Americans have "proceeded to open and avowed Rebellion...
...commanded by two men who not only are brothers but are thought to be cousins of King George III (their grandmother, the Baroness Kielmansegge, was once a favorite mistress of George I). Despite this royal connection, the two brothers, whom the Crown has now charged with suppressing all rebellion in the Colonies, were until lately among the staunchest advocates of a reconciliation...
...became fashionable in the Congress to believe that if rebellion broke out, many "unhappy" Canadian brethren (an overwhelming majority of whom are French) would view any American invading force as "liberators." No one properly reckoned on the conservatism and clannishness of the French-speaking peasantry, however, to say nothing of the influence of the church. The results are by now only too well known: as General Montgomery fought his way northward, occupying St. John's and Montreal, he enlisted few Canadian recruits despite his generous bonus offer. That virtually doomed the expedition even before the defeat last January...
This is the year, the British government promises, that the Rebellion in America will be crushed. "Once those Rebels have felt a smart blow, they will-submit," predicts King George III, while Colonial Secretary Lord George Germain confidently talks of victory in one vigorous campaign. The vacillations of Lord North, the head of the government, seem ended: he now demands that the Americans be reduced to "a proper constitutional state of obedience...
...Eanes served in all three of Portugal's former African territories, joined the 1973 so-called "captains' revolt" against Lisbon's effort to contain the black struggle for independence, and actively supported Spinola at the time of the April revolution. Eanes is credited with lancing the rebellion last November that nearly led to a leftist dictatorship...