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The new republic was conceived amid an orgy of strikes, church-burnings, and uprisings of the right and left.
Will points out that the GOP establishment's endorsement of Bush was completely voluntary and that grassroots uprisings, as McCain is attempting to bring about, are not always good for the party--look at what George McGovern did to the Democrats.
Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.
The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.
On 10 October 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, a criollo plantation owner who had already had a brief role in uprisings in Spain, issued a call for independence and liberated slaves from his estate, La Demajagua.