Word: revoluton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freed after three weeks and still enthusiastically rebellious, the Boys of '28 launched outright revoluton in April. They seized Dictator Gómez' Miraflores Palace (Gómez was away), grabbed all the guns they could find. They charged up the street toward San Carlos Barracks, where a confederate was supposed to fling open the gates and let them in. But the chief of the military forces arrived before the rebels, barred the gates and organized a stout defense. For the first time in his life, Rebel Betancourt fired a rifle. It was an ancient German weapon with...
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