The most prominent figure in the organization of the Cuban revolutionists and the first really constructive leader of the Cuban insurrection was Carlos Manuel Cespedes, a native of Bayamo.
But the regard in which he was held was too great for this to come to pass, and after the insurrection which deposed Maria Cristina he was offered and accepted the post of Governor of Madrid.
Despite the great preponderance of forces in its favor, the Spanish government did not at first depend upon military prowess for the suppression of the insurrection and the retention of Cuba as its colony.
All slaves who have served under the Spanish flag or who have in any way aided the troops during the present insurrection in Cuba are declared free.
The Spaniards did regard it as treason, and it did certainly incite and foment insurrection against Spain.
His second in command, Arango, the Marquis of Santa Lucia, is a native of Puerto Principe, and at taking part in the insurrection emancipated his slaves.
Because then there would remain in the camp of the insurrection only a dozen men; the only ones interested in the continuance of this war between brethren; this war of desolation and extermination.
But in 1832 Abolition agitation and the fears of insurrection had not as yet entirely stifled the discussion of slavery in the South.
This insurrection the South attributed to The Liberator.
After theinsurrection of La Granja he retired from public life and settled in France, where he died.
His cruelty caused an insurrection in the country in 1307, and, according to tradition, he perished by the hand of William Tell.
The castle was one of the strongholds of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, in his insurrection against Henry III.
Her nominal authority proves insufficient to keep the peace between the native population and the Dutch, for Parigi has been for months in a state of insurrection and unrest.
The country was not large enough to render an insurrection there very formidable, but the wild and lawless state of the Welsh Marches, which afforded hiding-places for criminals of all kinds, was a source of much evil.
The Imperial ambassador informs us[454] that the whole blame for the insurrection was laid on him.
The first of these symbols indicated that the insurrection had been undertaken for the defence of the faith; the second was to remind the commons of the spoils of the Church.
Before he had completed the third year of his reign aninsurrection of his subjects obliged him to save himself by flight on board a ship in the road.
The League, however, directed its activities against Turkey, taking advantage of Turkish embarrassments in Libya and of the success of an insurrection in Albania to attempt in 1912 the overthrow of the Turkish regime in Europe.
An insurrection placed him at the head of the colony, but rumours of a western ocean and of the wealth of Peru led him to cross the isthmus.
In 1846 the failure of the Polish insurrection led to the incorporation of Cracow with Austria.
There was an attempt at mutiny among the black soldiers; but the leaders were shot by the French, and the spirit of insurrection was put down for a time.
The insurrection should gradually continue to spread out.
At Lille, an insurrection breaks out Messidor 4, because the municipality, paying nine francs for bread, can give it to the poor only for about twenty and thirty sous.
That is all; their uprisal is not a political insurrection against the form of the government, but a moral insurrection against the criminals in office.
When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
The insurrectionof Toulon, Girondist at the start, dates July 1st.
Comprehending the insurrection in this way, defeat is certain beforehand.
Thereupon, on the 12th of Germinal, an insurrection of workmen and women breaks out; the Convention is invaded and liberated by military force.
Undoubtedly they are less so than the "Mountain;" hence, when the provincial insurrection breaks out, many Feuillants and even Royalists follow them to the section assemblies and join in their protests.
Thus was this insurrection quelled, and the possession of the quarter-deck regained, after it had been full two hours in the power of this great and daring chief and his gallant and unhappy countrymen.
Memoirs of the Insurrection in Scotland in 1715, by John, Master of Sinclair, p.
The Turkish Sultan gloried in the destruction of the Turkish army, but he had to crave the help of an all-too-powerful vassal in order to suppress the insurrection on the Greek peninsula.
A reform may be effected by means of insurrection and bloodshed, and a revolution may be carried out in piping times of peace.
But, as Nietsche prefers not to comprehend, insurrection demonstrates beyond question the bankruptcy of aristocratic morality; discredits it as effectually, and in the same way, as new evidence discredits old theories.
The scepticism with regard to suffering, fundamentally only an attitude of an aristocratic morality, was not the least of the causes, also, of the last great slave insurrection which began with the French Revolution.
Now there is a paradox that does not seem to have occurred to Nietsche, in the slave insurrection by which he accounts for this dreary spectacle.
Among the prisoners taken to-day many have been recognized as old Reds who were actively engaged in the insurrection of June, 1848.
I am convinced that the insurrection will be completely conquered by this evening at the latest.
The sounds of battle we heard from more than one point, and yet every one spoke of the Insurrection as in its last agonies.
The military leaders of the insurrection had been trained in combats where every imaginable expedient had been held lawful, and the Committee of the International thought no price too high for the realization of their fixed idea.
Fighting was going on at Belleville about an hour ago, but still there is every reason the believe that the insurrection is virtually over.
Such was the cause and such the conduct of this two months' war; but a war, nevertheless, it was, waged by a political insurrection on behalf of a political object.
The disastrous termination of that insurrection did not stop the propaganda of the abolitionist ideas which reached even to the palace, through the famous Russian poet Zhukoffsky, instructor of Alexander II.
For some time he lay concealed, but in the spring of 1486 he attempted to raise an insurrection along with Humphrey and Thomas Stafford, who had broken out of their sanctuary at Colchester.
Eyre says that the commencement of the insurrection was “an attack by certainly not 300 men on the dwellings of Sir Alexander Burnes and Captain Johnson.
How far he may have sown the seeds of insurrection among the Ghilzyes is not very clearly known, but it is probable that the influence he exercised at that time was rather of a passive than of an active kind.
John Conolly, who was to have accompanied him to Bombay, was giving directions about the packing of some of the Envoy’s chattels, when an Afghan rushed wildly in, and announced that there was an insurrection in the city.
Burnes was with me the evening before the insurrection occurred, and it is a singular fact that he should have congratulated me on my approaching departure at a season of such profound tranquillity.
Whilst affairs were in this distressing and dispiriting state at Caubul, our outposts were exposed to imminent danger; and it was soon only too plain that the insurrection was not confined to the neighbourhood of the capital.
But he continued to talk of the “impudence of the rascals,” and expressed his belief that, the insurrection put down, the country would be quieter than ever.
It is the common opinion of all competent authorities that a prompt and vigorous movement, on the morning of the 2nd of November, would have strangled the insurrection at its birth.
I replied to this note, that if there was an insurrection in the city, it was not a moment for indecision, and recommended him at once to decide upon what measures he would adopt.
He was one of the promoters at the insurrection of Vienna, and showed great bravery in the fights of the students with the troops.
For planning an insurrection against the Prussian Government he was arrested, but won his acquittal.
He was pardoned it is said, but making a wild attempt at insurrection again, was this time tried and executed.
Ramsay died in 1758, when the troubles of the country were over, the last seeds of insurrection stamped out, and the powerful revolution begun which made the clans loyal to Government and Scotch politicians faithful to the Union.
But the insurrection came to nothing, and "the unfortunate prince or adventurer" was taken prisoner.
I had almost begun to think that the insurrection might pass away without bloodshed, when a mounted aide-de-camp rode up and conferred with the leaders on the barricade.
The insurrection now budding into life and vigour in so many of her provinces illustrates this proposition.
In Easter week there was an obscure insurrection in Cleveland.
Of the three leaders who had thrown themselves into the insurrectionwith a fixed and peremptory purpose, Aske alone, the truest and the bravest, ventured to the king's presence.
But the motives which had led to these overtures remained to invite their renewal; the insurrection was for the present prostrate, and the emperor therefore withdrew his first step, and disowned his compromised minister in London.
The discussions of the latter body were opened by the archbishop in a sermon, in which he dared to declare the meeting unlawful and the insurrection traitorous.
Sidenote: Who consents to go, and writes a narrative of theinsurrection at the king's request.
The impunity of the first insurrection had borne its natural fruits, and wholesome severity could alone restore quiet.
By the end of December many of the gentlemen who had been out in the insurrection had been in London; in their interviews with the king they had been won back to an unreserved allegiance, and had returned to do him loyal service.
In the spring of 1535, the sessions at Taunton and Bridgewater were forcibly dissolved by an insurrection of "wilful persons.
Sidenote: The Spanish ambassador compromised in the insurrection is withdrawn.
The windows that were closed during the weighty hours of the insurrection are opened wide; the houses breathe again.
Second Insurrection of Guarionex, and his Flight to the Mountains of Ciguay VII.
Insurrection of Guarionex, the Cacique of the Vega III.
Insurrection of Guarionex, the Cacique of the Vega.
By skillful management, with a handful of men, he defeated a formidable insurrection without any effusion of blood.
He related also the disasters sustained in the island of Jamaica; the insurrection of the Porras and their band; and all the other griefs and troubles of this unfortunate expedition.
Second Insurrection of Guarionex, and His Flight to the Mountains of Ciguay.
While Cloumbus was engaged in his fourth voyage, and shortly after the accession of Ovando to office, there was an insurrection of this cacique and his people.
It acknowledged the receipt of his statement of the alleged insurrection of Roldan, but observed that this matter must be suffered to remain in suspense, as the sovereigns would investigate and remedy it presently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insurrection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
