Rebellion

__NOTOC__ A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. It may thus be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from a mild flouting of social norms to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority. It is often used to refer to armed resistance to an established government. Those who participate in rebellions are "rebels". Throughout history many different groups that used violent methods were called rebels. In the U.S, the term was used for the Continental Army by the British in the Revolutionary War and the Confederacy by the Union in the Civil War. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arms against an established government. For example, the Boxer rebellion was an uprising against Western world commerce and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century, and the Jacobite Risings which attempted to restore the deposed House of Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland were called the ''Jacobite Rebellions'' by the government. A violent rebellion is sometimes referred to as an insurgency while a larger one may escalate into a civil war. There are a number of terms that fall under the umbrella of "rebel", though they range from those with positive connotations to those that are considered pejorative. Examples, in rough order from complimentary to pejorative, are: *"Resistance" carried out by freedom fighters, often to an occupying invader *"Revolution" by revolutionaries, often meant to indicate a desired change in type in government *"Uprising" *"Insurrection" by insurrectionists *"Insurgency" by insurgents *"Revolt" *"Mutiny" by mutineers, normally of military or security forces to commanders *"Subversion" by subversives *"Terrorism" by terrorists, refers specifically to the method of avoiding pitched battle The difference between rebel and terrorist is often subjective. While the term rebel can sometimes have positive connotations as an agent of change, "terrorist" implies destructive action and is always used pejoratively, often by an establishment opposed to rebellious activities. == Famous rebellions / uprisings in history == {|align="center" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #fafafa; border: 1px #ccc solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |73 BC - 71 BC || The Spartacus |- |66 AD - 70 AD || Great Jewish Revolt |- |1378 || Revolt of the Ciompi in Florence |- |1381 || Peasants' Revolt in England |- |1519 - 1659 || Jelali Revolts in the Ottoman Empire |- |1524 - 1526 || Peasants' War in Germany |- |1612 || Time_of_Troubles |- |1637 - 1638 || Shimabara Rebellion |- |1642 - 1649 || The English civil war, also known as the Great Rebellion |- |1670 - 1671 || Insurrection of Stepan Razin |- |1676 || Bacon's Rebellion |- |1689 || Jacobite Rising |- |1715 || the 'Fifteen Jacobite Rising |- |1739 || Stono Rebellion |- |1741 || New York Slave Insurrection of 1741 |- |1745 || the 'Forty-Five Jacobite Rising |- |1763 - 1766 || Pontiac's Rebellion |- |1773 - 1774 || Insurrection of Emelyan Pugachov |- |1775 - 1783 || American Revolutionary War |- |1786 || Shays' Rebellion |- |1792 || New York Revolt of 1792 |- |1794 || Whiskey Rebellion |- |1798 || Irish Rebellion of 1798 |- |1800 || United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland |- |1800 || Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion |- |1804 - 1807 || First Serbian Uprising |- |1811 || Charles Deslandes' Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion |- |1815 || George Boxley Rebellion |- |1816 || Fort Blount Revolt |- |1822 || Denmark Vesey's Uprising |- |1825 || Decembrist revolt |- |1839 || Amistad Seizure |- |1831 || Nat Turner's rebellion |- |1837 || Rebellions of 1837 in Canada |- |1848 || Young Irelanders' Rebellion |- |1851 - 1864 || The Taiping rebellion |- |1853 - 1868 || Nian Rebellion (捻軍起義) |- |1857 - 1858 || Sepoy Rebellion |- |1867 || Fenian rebellion |- |1899 - 1913 || Moro Rebellion |- |1900 || Boxer rebellion |- | 1916 || Easter Rebellion |- |1917 || Russian Revolution |- |1919 - 1921 || Tambov rebellion |- |1921 || Kronstadt rebellion |- |1932 || M�nts�l� rebellion |- |1940 - 1945 || French Resistance |- |1952 - 1959 || Mau Mau Rebellion |- |1968 || May 1968 uprisings in France |- |1994 - Present || Zapatista |- |1992 || Northern Alliance |} == Famous rebels == * Bohdan Chmielnicki * James Connolly * Michael Davitt * Che Guevara * Helgi H�seasson * John O'Mahoney * Subcomandante Marcos * Francis Meagher * John Mitchel * Emelyan Pugachov * Stenka Razin * William Smith O'Brien * Eric Raymond * Satan * Spartacus * Leon Trotsky * Jack Cade * Owen Glendower * Emiliano Zapata ==See also== * American Slave rebellions (Nat Turner's rebellion, Stono Rebellion, et cetera) * List of Polish uprisings * Rokosz, a legal rebellion in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * The Open Source Movement has been called a "rebellion" against closed source software and intellectual capitalism. ==Fictional rebellions== * Maquis (Star Trek) * Rebel Alliance (Star Wars) Types of war Rebellion

Rebellion

Rebellion is the general term for an uprising, revolt, insurgency, and other related terms, that describe an active and armed movement that seeks to take control of a government. While many rebellions are carried out in order to replace the leadership, some aim to complete reform the society and are called revolutions. While many rebellions fail, while some succeed, as in the case of the American Revolution, and the Indian independence; both sought freedom of governance from the British Empire. In many cases, uprisings lead to civil war, often divided along lines of ethnicity, socio-economic status, or religion. Coup d'�tat are a specific form of rebellion where one part (often the military) seeks to usurp control of the country very quickly, and often without the use of violence. ---- Politics History by topic Wars Conflicts

Rebellion

What is the definition of moral majority being used here? The only one I know is the conservative Christian movement of the 80's (which we also don't have an article about) Does this term really apply when talking about Open Source programmers? User:Rmhermen 17:46, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC) :Personally, I'd like to remove the whole open source paragraph. It's totally out of place, if we're talking about armed uprisings and political struggles. Maybe a link at the bottom, like: Open Source "rebellion." Thoughts? --User:Tothebarricades.tk 02:33, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC) ::The more I think of it the more it is like one of the more figurative definiitons of "revolution", than rebellion. User:Rmhermen 12:49, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC) All right, I just put it under "See Also." I removed references to Moral Majority because like you I haven't heard it used other than in reference to the unsavory religious movement in the 1980s. I did a google search; all the uses of the term "moral majority" were about or in allusion to that group. --User:Tothebarricades.tk 17:56, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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