9 sentences with 'revolt'
Example sentences and phrases with the word revolt and other words derived from it.
• « A great revolt broke out in Egypt against Persian rule, drawing attention away from Greece until the revolt was put down. »
• « Some members of the League rose up in armed revolt, but the Athenians were able to crush the revolts with little difficulty. »
• « Also, despite the death of Gaius Gracchus, the Republic finally granted citizenship to all Italians in 84 BC, after being forced to put down a revolt in Italy. »
• « After the Italian revolt of 88-84 BC, the Assembly took command from General Lucius Cornelius Sulla of the Roman legions fighting the Parthians and gave it to Gaius Marius in exchange for his support for the emancipation of the people of the Italian cities. »
• « The revolt was brutally suppressed, with more than 100,000 killed, and Lutheranism was able to maintain the support of elites such as Frederick the Wise, who welcomed it. »
• « Attempts by royal officials to enact reforms similar to those undertaken by Richelieu in France failed; even as Spain lost the Dutch revolt, it sought to finance the Catholic forces of the Thirty Years' War, thereby undermining its own financial reserves and stretching its military power to the limit. »
• « This was reflected in the Spanish revolt that began in 1808, the resurgence of Austria and Prussia and their 'liberation' struggles against Napoleon, the Russian leadership of the anti-Napoleonic coalition that followed, and the fierce British pride in their defiance of French military pretensions. »