These conditions have led me to the conclusion that there will be no general rising in the Cape Colony, and that the continuance of the war will depend more on the Republics than upon the Cape Colony.
He hopes, therefore, that measures will be taken to guard against the possibility of a general rising consequent on fear.
John Lawrence, who was straining every nerve to check the Mutiny and prevent a general rising of the population, was impatient at the idea of delay, and lost no time in giving Anson his opinion.
Arrangements were made for a general rising of the Lower Province; the meeting of St Charles took place, and resolutions were passed of a nature which could no longer be overlooked by the Provincial Government.
The 23rd of May had been appointed for a general rising.
One of these conspiracies was for a general rising of the Jacobites and a simultaneous invasion of England from France.
There were great difficulties in the way of a general rising.
Passing on to the question whether help was to be expected from Cape Colony, General Smuts declared that there would be no general rising.
At all events, we cannot entertain any hopes of a general rising of the Colonists.
The existence of this difficulty, and the facts which he had brought before the delegates, had forced him to the conclusion that a general risingin Cape Colony was an impossibility.
The whole world was ill at ease; and one check served to bring about a general rising.
In 1792 the count de la Rouairie had prepared a general rising, which failed on account of his arrest; but all yet remained ready for an insurrection, when the decree for raising three hundred thousand men was put into execution.
Puisaye had recourse to England to extend the Chouanerie, leading it to hope for a general rising in Brittany, and from thence in the rest of France, if it would land the nucleus of an army, with ammunition and guns.
After waiting for the expected freedom until the 14th of April, they determined on that day to have a general rising, which was signalled by burning heaps of cane-trash in the parish of St. Philip.
As early as the year 1649 a plot for a general risingin Barbados was discovered through the information of a bond-servant.
On Sunday, the 17th of August, a number of the bolder spirits met after service and discussed a plot which had been already under consideration, for a general rising at eight o'clock next evening.
On the report that there was a probability of a settlement of the matter the fleet left, when the maroons immediately began to plot with the slaves for a general rising.
Mack was despatched to Naples for the purpose of bringing about a general rising in Southern Italy against the French, and England lavished gold.
Austria, when preparing for war in 1809, could therefore confidently reckon upon a general rising in the Tyrol.
The Guises sent emissaries to keep Ireland disturbed, and the appearance of a fleet under the Duke of Medina Celi was the appointed signal for a general rising.
There was a general rising, the old king was brought over from Normandy, and Canute was driven out for a moment by force of arms.
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