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  7.3.3 Sweden History: The Medieval Time
A rebellion led by Engelbrecht is motivated by the king of the Kalmar union
January 1435 a diet appointed Engelbrecht as captain for the Swedish realm,
Engelbrecht's "Marsk" (commander-in-chief), who then kills the most famous
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  SpivO Encyclopedia
The struggle against the colonial power began in 1817 with the Uva Rebellion, when the same aristocracy rose against British rule in a fierce rebellion in which their villagers participated heroically.
In 1848 the abortive Matale Rebellion, led by Hennedige Francisco Fernando (Puran Appu) and Gongalegoda Banda was the first transitional step towards abandoning the feudal form of revolt, being fundamentally a peasant revolt.
The masses were without the leadership of their native King (deposed in 1815) or their chiefs (either crushed after the Uva Rebellion or collaborating with the colonial power).
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 Sweden
Although the democratic Engelbrecht was murdered soon after this, yet the efforts to reconcile king and people had no lasting success, and Erik was deposed in 1439.
His strength grew as leader of the rebellion through several fortunate skirmishes, and as he succeeded in winning over the influential Bishop Hans Brask to his cause, a popular assembly at Vadstena appointed him stadtholder of the kingdom (1521); two years later he was unanimously elected king at Straengnaes.
He wrote an account in fairly good verse of the national hero Engelbrecht, and in his songs praised the virture of loyalty and the blessings of freedom.
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 washingtonpost.com: Frederick, Past Present
Engelbrecht was born in Frederick in 1797, the son of a Hessian soldier imprisoned in the barracks who decided to stay in America after his release.
Engelbrecht was, like his father, a tailor and storekeeper.
Engelbrecht, who served as mayor of Frederick after the Civil War, lived until 1878, keeping his diary until almost his final days.
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 Kalmar Union information - Search.com
King Albert, born in Germany, was disliked by the Swedish nobility and their rebellion had received help from the Danes, who intended the union to serve as a check on the growing power of the German Hanseatic League.
Queen Margaret, who was a daughter of the late Danish king Valdemar Atterdag and wife of the late Norwegian king Haakon VI, maneuvered to have her grandnephew Eric of Pomerania recognized as heir to the Norwegian throne, and then elected king over the two other countries.
The unity of the union eroded in the 1430s, even to the point of armed rebellion (the Engelbrecht rebellion), leading to the expulsion of Danish forces from Sweden.
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 Kalmar Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
King Albert, born in Germany, was disliked by the Swedish nobility and their rebellion had received help from the Danes, who intended the union to serve as a check on the growing power of the German Hanseatic League.
Queen Margaret, who was a daughter of the late Danish king Valdemar Atterdag and wife of the late Norwegian king Haakon VI, maneuvered to have her grandnephew Eric of Pomerania recognized as heir to the Norwegian throne, and then elected king over the two other countries.
The unity of the union eroded in the 1430s, even to the point of armed rebellion (the Engelbrecht rebellion), leading to the expulsion of Danish forces from Sweden.
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 Nordic FAQ - 7 of 7 - SWEDEN - allanswers.org
In January 1435 a diet appointed Engelbrecht as captain for the Swedish realm, and as such he that year negotiated with the union-king - with poor result.
In response to demands from the country a new diet was summoned in 1436 where Engelbrecht was elected king.
1434-36 A rebellion led by Engelbrecht is motivated by the king of the Kalmar union breaking a promise not to change laws or taxes without asking the people.
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 Candlelight Stories - Stories
They are full of adventure, tricks, twists of fate, romance, violence, and honor.
A story about youthfull rebellion that leads to an interesting friendship.
What happens when a young bear decides that hibernation is just a waste of valuable time?
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The Engelbrecht rebellion is probably the best picture we can get of how kings had been elected in older times.
The troops are poorly motivated, the war goes badly, a rebellion known as the Anjala-alliance rises among the officers in Finland and Gustav has to stop the Russian campaign.
On Åland, for example, a rebellion starts May 6th with a capturing of the Russians guarding the main island, a few hundreds of men, and hinders thereby probably a planned invasion north of Stockholm.
archive.cs.uu.nl /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/nordic-faq/part7_SWEDEN   (18576 words)

  
 7.3 History
1434-36 A rebellion led by Engelbrecht is motivated by the king of the Kalmar union breaking a promise not to change laws or taxes without asking the people.
In January 1435 a diet appointed Engelbrecht as captain for the Swedish realm, and as such he negotiated with the union-king that year - with poor results.
The troops are poorly motivated, the war goes badly, a rebellion known as Anjala-alliance rises among the Finnish officers and Gustav has to stop the Russian campaign.
www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part7_SWEDEN/section-2.html   (6672 words)

  
 Jensen
--The establishment of Paul Engelbrecht was broken up, and his stock of liquors destroyed under authority of Salt Lake City, because he sold liquor without a license.
It was continued daily until the 9th, when it was adjourned to the 14th, then to the 21st and closed on the 28th.
--A decision was rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Engelbrecht case, overturning the judicial proceedings in Utah for the last eighteen months, and declaring null indictments against about one hundred and twenty persons, some of whom had been imprisoned for some time.
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 Michaelcosm  |  Feature  -  The Loudest Yelps For Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 by Douglas Egerton.
In this book, Egerton details two failed slave rebellions.
The interesting part is how President Thomas Jefferson and Virginia Governor James Monroe dealt with the culprits in the aftermath.
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 Petitions for Relief and the Dynamics of Pacification
If the tenant had participated in the rebellion, no deductions would be allowed, unless it could be proven that the tenant had acted under duress, in which case the tenant would be indemnified with the money penalties extracted from «ringleaders» on the Estates’ side;
As Peter Blickle has shown, the thirty-year period between 1502 and 1532 marked a fundamental shift in the legal history of central European politics, when all forms of peasant resistance, including passive resistance and sedition, were criminalized as high treason.
Few could, and duress was excluded as a valid excuse for having taken part in the rebellion.
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 Merchants of Death. A Study of the International Armament Industry, by H.C. Engelbrecht and F.C. Hanighen. With a ...
Moreover, even though the armament makers have played a prominent part in encouraging wars, rebellions and border raids, they never exerted so terrible an influence upon the promotion of warfare as did our American bankers between 1914 and 1917.
Among the leaders of the rebellion was Don Benito Juarez, former President of Mexico.
Spain ordered huge Krupp guns, ostensibly for the purpose of turning them secretly against the British at Gibraltar, but they were so large that they could not be concealed and they served to heighten the British suspicions of Germany.
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 Aisle Say (San Francisco): URINETOWN
The plot focuses on young Bobby Strong (Robert Brewer), who leads poor people in a rebellion against UGC after his father, Old Man Strong (Todd Wright), is hauled off for peeing in public and after the company's owner, Caldwell B. Cladwell (Mike R. Padilla), bribes enough legislators to enact higher pee fees.
In addition to Manley's direction and Risk's choreography, the show benefits from Joe Ragey's flexible set, Julie Engelbrecht's costumes, Kurt Landisman's lighting and Catherine Snider's musical direction.
It also is a pleasure to attend a musical theater production where the sound designer (Shane Olbourne) realizes that singers don't have to be miked in an intimate space like the Foothill College Playhouse.
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 SMS Emden Information
Emden saw her first action suppressing the Sokehs Rebellion on the island of Ponape in the German colonies of the Carolinas Islands in January of 1911.
Together with the German cruiser Nürnberg she shelled a rebel fortification with her 4.1-inch (105 mm) guns and then sent an armed landing party of seamen ashore to capture the rebel stronghold.
H.H. Engelbrecht, a Boer wildlife officer of German descent was falsely accused of supplying meat to the cruiser and jailed.
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 G Bios
Judging by the treatment we have received at the hands of the good people of Bremer County and the rest of our subscribers, that consolidation on the part of the proprietors of the two papers, was one of the most sensible things they did since the war of the Rebellion was won for the Union.
The youngest of the thirteen students enrolled in 1879 was August Engelbrecht, who is now director or president.
Director Grossmann took up his labors at Waverly on a salary of six hundred dollars a year and a house, and continued to direct the work until 1894, when the infirmities of old age made it necessary for him to retire.
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 M - Biographies of Cole County Persons
Menteer died November 13, 1891 and in 1896 William married Emma Engelbrecht, daughter of George J. Engelbrecht, a farmer near the city.
When the rebellion broke out, Judge Miller took his position promptly on the Union side and did a great deal to keep the counties within his judicial circuit quiet by regularly holding his courts, sometimes at great personal peril, and giving the people opportunity for legal remedies.
He was the only circuit judge in the state who was not deterred at some time during the war from holding court.
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When this event took place the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape condemned it as an act of open rebellion and excommunicated anyone who joined the Trek.
In fact, de la Rey died in what appears to have been the first stages of a plot to revolt against British rule, but van Rensburg's prophecies continued to haunt Afrikaners.
It was the government's view the prophecies of van Rensburg were the principle cause of the rebellion.
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 H-Africa - Swaziland Bibliography
These have been translated from Siswati to English, forming a continuous narrative beginning with Chakijanes birth, ending with his/her death.
"Rituals of rebellion: the Swazi case re-examined" / Gopala Sarana.
Also deals with the Incwala ceremony and the author wonders whether or not the Incwala is a ritual of rebellion.
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 Hemp The Bush That George Wants To Cut Down
American Ordinance, New York Powder Company, United States Dynamite Company, and The American Textile Powder Manufacturing Company were but a few of the smaller companies put out of business or bought out by DuPont and companies they controlled.
"The policy pursued was one of ruthless elimination", wrote Engelbrecht and Hanighen in "Merchants of Death".
So out of hand was the League that they had even tried to mount an armed rebellion against Roosevelt, trying to use General Samuel Butler, but failing, as he exposed this scheme.
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 Document   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WAR OF THE REBELLION OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION and CONFEDERATE ARMIES.
For all of the cosmetic flaws, the book is still in condition--straight, square, tight binding, bright and clean pages, tissue protecting the frontis.
Engelbrecht, H. / Hanighen, F. New York; Dodd, Mead and Company.
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Frederick Engelbrecht, living at home); she has one son, William; and a daughter, Mary (now living in Des Moines).
Was born in Shelby county, Indiana, October 10, 1854, and after living there for a time he moved to Ottawa, Kansas, where he resided about five years.
During the war, on the call for men to suppress the rebellion, he enlisted on the 10th of May, 1861, in company W, Fourteenth Illinois Infantry and served until May 11, 1866, when he was discharged.
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 Richard J. Cox
rebellion, using it as a scenario upon which to make some satirical judgments about mankind.
Hamilton satirized some of the current notions of history in his farcical "history" of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis.
Some problems resulted from the turmoil and confusion of the 1689 rebellion, 72 a situation that Nicholson, as the
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 BASUTOLAND ROLL OF HONOUR 1851 - 1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal
The Basutoland Rebellion (The Gun War), 1880 to 1881.
In all these wars African levies fought on the side of the white troops and their casualties, where known, are included.
The Basutoland Rebellion was fought by the Cape Colony with the idea of disarming the Basotho, an object which failed completely, and by the Basotho, in alliance with various tribes in the Transkei and East Griqualand, to drive out the whites.
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Performative tautology or a priori synthesis, which structures any foundation of the law upon which one performatively produces the conventions that guarantee the validity of the performative, thanks to which one gives oneself the means to distinguish between legal and illegal violence.
I do not invoke Derrida in a plea for the gentle treatment of those who, like Magnus Malan and Krappies Engelbrecht, gave high-level orders, or of people like Spyker van Wyk who actually "applied" hose pipes, electrodes and wet canvas hoods.
In Cinders he insists "[t]here is rebellion against the Phoenix and also the affirmation of the fire without place or mourning" (59).
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 1895 State Census- Blue Grass Twp, Scott Co, IA
63 29 183 189 Engelbrecht Louisie 50 F.
63 31 183 189 Engelbrecht Manda 16 F.
64 2 183 189 Engelbrecht Joseph 14 M.
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 Index E
On Feb. 22, 1986, he left the people of the Philippines rubbing their eyes when he barricaded himself and his military supporters inside defense headquarters and announced he was abandoning the Marcos government to support Corazon Aquino, Benigno's widow, who, just weeks before, had lost to Marcos in an apparently rigged election.
By February 25 Enrile's rebellion and Aquino-inspired street demonstrations had broken Marcos's 20-year stranglehold on the presidency.
He was retained as defense minister by new president Aquino, but just weeks after helping her come to power, he began scorning her policies, particularly that of negotiating with the country's Communist insurgents.
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 April 15 - 30, 2005 Global News Monitor - Prevent Genocide International
Old tensions aggravated by war The Dioula are Muslims who originally came from the north of Cote d'Ivoire, the heartland of the rebellion, but many of those in Boli had been living there for generations.
Yao, the village chief, played down suggestions that the feud between them and the local Baoule people had anything to do with the war.
Many were particularly at risk since they had been severely weakened by ill-treatment, torture and lack of adequate medical care for chronic illnesses, the London-based rights watchdog said in a statement.
www.preventgenocide.org /news-monitor/2005apr2.htm   (19673 words)

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