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The uprising was quashed, however, and in 1795, Poniatowski was forced to abdicate.
In 1927 it was the setting for the first Communist-led armed uprising against the Nationalist forces.
In October 1865 at Morant Bay, there was another uprising, led by Baptist minister Paul Bogle and by George Gordon, a mulatto (mixed-race) landowner.
The most memorable incident occurred in 1868 in the mountain town of Lares, when government forces crushed an uprising of secessionists, killing or jailing the insurgents, and many innocent victims.
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after the Tibetans' failed uprising against the Chinese communists, who had taken over in 1951.