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Example sentences for: insurrection

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Two articles argue that, in lieu of attacking, America's best option with Iraq is to support a rebel insurrection.
Tadeusz Ko§ciuszko, a hero of the American War of Independence, led a military insurrection in 1794, defeating the Russians with a mostly peasant army.
It’s said that a party of local men then set sail from Olhão all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
The insurrection was quashed and its leaders executed, but the king got the message.
The NYT explains that U.S. officials are very concerned about whether Albanian forces will respond to the Yugoslavian pullout by resuming their armed insurrection, which is what prompted Milosevic's incursion in the first place.