Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon Reference library
Mordechai Cogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...639 does read like a sign that victorious Assyria had come upon bad times. Manasseh died in 642 bce , and his son and successor Amon (641–640) reigned just two years before being assassinated by his courtiers. There is no way of knowing just what prompted this mutiny, and equally strong cases can be made for either foreign or internal affairs. Judah did not lack for political tensions and intrigues. The uprising was soon put down by “the people of land,” that influential segment of the population of Judah, mostly the wealthy, who appeared in...
Amin, Idi Dada (1925) Reference library
nelson kasfir
Dictionary of African Biography
...Amin announced that he might act on a 1902 colonial map indicating that Uganda had once included all of western Kenya to within twenty miles of Nairobi. Following a public speech by Jomo Kenyatta in February 1976 , and the deployment of Kenyan troops and armor on its border with Uganda, Amin withdrew the warning. In June 1976 , he contrived a proclamation making him “President for Life.” Discontent in the armed forces led Amin to make sweeping changes among his top officers in April 1978 . Probably to outflank a mutiny in the Simba Barracks in...
Timor Leste Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...in the first elections to the constituent assembly, to prepare the country for independence in May 2002 , with Gusmão as president. Contemporary politics (since 2002) The government continued to rely heavily on Australian military and security help. In 2006 , a mutiny in the small army ignited widespread looting and popular protest, which the authorities were barely able to control. Gusmão called on Australian help, and dismissed his Prime Minister, as well as those ministers responsible for the army and the police. To stabilize the country,...
Slocum, Joshua (1844–1909) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
...receiving American citizenship in 1865 , Slocum received his first command, the Washington , and sailed it to various Pacific ports; in 1871 he met and married Virginia Albertina Walker in Sydney. Virginia traveled on Slocum's vessels with him, suffering through shipwreck, mutiny, the eruption of Krakatoa, and seven births before her death in 1884 . Two years later, Slocum married his cousin, Henrietta Elliott , with whom he was wrecked off Brazil on their “honeymoon voyage” aboard the Aquidneck . Slocum built the Liberdade using timbers from the...
Segregation Reference library
Carl H. Nightingale
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...complete with cool foggy mists deemed more appropriate for British constitutions. Separation also served to protect colonial authorities from the uprisings and wars that were often deemed inevitable racial conflicts. After the revolt of 1857 (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny and the Great Mutiny) in India, for example, urban color lines were substantially tightened. Orientalist concerns also came into play: the French built their own section of Rabat, Morocco, with rectilinear avenues and architecture meant to contrast European progress with the supposedly...
Ulisse Quick reference
The Grove Book of Operas (2 ed.)
...no longer and breaks down. The King, noticing his tears, asks his name. Ulysses identifies himself, and agrees to tell them his story. The scene immediately dissolves, revealing (scene ii) Ulysses’ ship about to drop anchor off the island of the Lotus‐eaters. His crew are near to mutiny, but they agree to beach the ship when they hear the sound of the Lotus‐eaters in the distance. The islanders then appear, drugged into euphoric lassitude through eating the blossoms and fruits of the lotus. They offer these to Ulysses’ crew, some of whom, despite his...
Slave Rebellions, American Reference library
Andrew W. Kahrl
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...of slave-ship insurrections. Ships that drew from a single cultural region, for instance, were ripe for insurrection, for this lessened the ethnic tensions that might have prevented cooperation. Sickness and disease frequently depleted crews and left captains vulnerable to mutiny. In many cases, slaves carried out plots against a ship's captain and crew out of desperation and without a plan for successful return. In other instances, captured slaves devised and implemented elaborate plans for reversing sail and returning to their homeland. In 1839 a...
Indian Subcontinent Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
...blunders.” The Anglo-Indian codes were systematically enforced by the courts. A new system of governance was installed in 1857 , after the first war of Indian independence, which the British prefer to call a “mutiny.” Above a hierarchy of lower civil and criminal courts, a new High Court system for each province was introduced by the High Courts Act, 1861 . Appeals lay to the High Courts and from there to the Privy Council in London. The original High Courts of the presidency towns of Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras were followed by High Courts in Allahabad (...
Tanzania: Civil–Military Relations and Nationalism Reference library
Daniel G. Zirker
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics
...the military recruitment patterns were preeminently ideological, beginning with founding President Julius Nyerere’s total rebuilding of the army as a response to the East African mutinies of 1964 . The mutinies were a regional military intervention that affected Tanzania far more directly than they affected Uganda and Kenya, their other two focal points. The mutinies began in Tanganyika on January 20, 1964 . The issues were primarily a dispute over pay and promotions and, especially, a strident disagreement regarding the plans for “Africanizing” the...
Fiction Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...voyages’ events or who sought simply to capitalize on their popularity. Sometimes, multiple accounts of a voyage resulted from efforts to establish the truth surrounding mutinies and disasters, such as works around the mutiny on board HMS Bounty in 1789 , from the time Captain William Bligh ’s trial was first published in 1794 , or offering the truth concerning the shipwreck and mutiny on board HMS Wager , a ship in the squadron of George Anson when he sailed to make war on the Spanish in the Pacific in 1740–1744 . Accounts of this latter disaster...
British Raj Reference library
Patit Paban Mishra
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...of Surendra Sai , and the Santhal rebellion, among others, were some of the major peasant and tribal uprisings. Because of the isolated nature of the revolts and the superiority of the British army, these movements failed. The revolt of 1857 , also known as the Sepoy Mutiny and the Great Mutiny, engulfed major parts of India, posing a real threat to British colonial rule. Although it began as a discontent of the sepoys—indigenous soldiers having the lowest rank in the British Indian army—it soon affected various classes of people. The new type of bullet...
India Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...poised to take advantage of the power vacuum and the renewal of internecine struggle. Victorious over its French rival, the English East India Company laid the basis in the 18th century for the subsequent hegemony of the British Raj . Following the Indian Mutiny control of India passed, via The Act for the Better Government of India ( 1858 ) from the English East India Company to the British Crown. The India Acts of the late 19th and early 20th century granted greater Indian involvement in government. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885 ,...
Soldiers, Roman Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...and during the winter, when soldiers often lived in stationary camps. Such training was supplemented by knowledge transmitted by veterans and superiors to less experienced soldiers. Punishment could be extremely harsh. Nevertheless, it was not uncommon for soldiers to desert or mutiny. A fundamental but still unresolved question is how changes in military service affected the Roman population. Traditional interpretations see greater demands on manpower from the Second Punic War onward as significantly weakening the smallholding farming population that made up...
Boucicault, Dion Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
...oncoming train. Borrowed from Under the Gaslight ( 1867 ) by the American Augustin Daly , and removed to the new London Underground, it had litigious consequences as well as cinematic posterity. Seizing on other contemporary subjects, Boucicault turned out a play on the Indian Mutiny, Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow ( 22 February 1858 ), which opened only three months after the title event; and he turned out another invoking issues of slavery and racism that opened fortuitously four days after John Brown's execution. In the latter, The Octoroon;...
Shipwreck Accounts Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...and others placed extraordinary events in a recognizable format, and most important, in one readily available to a wide audience. The narratives commended virtue, self-sacrifice, and bravery on board vessels, while greed and cowardice produced condemnation. Often surrounded by mutiny and murder, a few brave and heroic individuals represented the remnants of civilization, and they lived to tell their version of the story. Cowardice or naïve behavior could result in death, not only for the individual but for the entire crew and any passengers. Class played an...
Yuán Chónghuàn (1584–1630) Reference library
Kenneth M. SWOPE
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography
...Wuqiao Mutiny ( 1631–1633 ). With Yuan out of the way, the Jin attacked the Ming base of Dalinghe, which was still under construction, in the summer of 1631 . It fell after several months and the Jin captured large numbers of cannon as a result. These became the basis for the weaponry in the artillery corps that Hong Taiji created with the help of Chinese defectors in the following years. Meanwhile, a Ming relief force led by Kong Youde, one of Mao Wenlong’s former lieutenants, mutinied while traveling through Shandong en route to Dalinghe. This mutiny lasted...
Seychelles Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
...monitor the mail of suspect individuals under the Post Office Act. In 1981 the then sixty-two-year-old Irishman Mad Mike Hoare flew into Seychelles along with fellow mercenaries from South Africa in an attempt to overthrow René. After a confrontation at the airport, all but six of the mercenaries hijacked an Air India plane and flew back to South Africa, only to be arrested there. At René’s request, Tanzania sent 400 troops to ensure stability; a year later they helped defeat an army mutiny. Some implicated the United States and South Africa, citing...
India Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...rule India had come under British colonial rule by 1850 , after a drawn‐out process of territorial conquest, acquisition, and contracts with existing rulers which had been drawn up over a period of 250 years. British rule was asserted by the suppression of the Indian mutiny ( 1857–8 ). Perhaps the most intriguing question of the first half of the twentieth century with regard to Indian history is why and how a small colonial British elite could govern the world's second most populous country, then containing around 450 million people. The most important...
Gregory I the Great (c.540–604) Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...in his own person even after his elevation to the papacy, which happened in 590 , after Pelagius's death. The years of the pontificate ( 590–604 ) The historical moment was extremely delicate, given the difficulties deriving from the devastation due to the Gothic war and the mutinies and robberies of the imperial soldiers, to which were added natural catastrophes (rains, overflowing of rivers, including the Tiber) and various Sicknesses such as the plague. Gregory overcame his initial reservations and faced the material situation with awareness and...
Childhood Reference library
Black Women in America (2 ed.)
...trans-Atlantic slave trade, had already experienced serious encroachments upon their childhoods before they disembarked in Havana and boarded the Amistad . The horrors intensified when they witnessed a bloody revolt led by shipmates while en route to Puerto Principe in 1839 . Mutinies occurred on approximately 10 percent of the voyages, and there was an estimated 10 percent death rate among the Africans. The extent to which children were involved in rebellions is unknown; however, their participation is not to be discounted. In 1734 Samuel Waldo , owner of...
