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Mutiny Act

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Before the Glorious Revolution, James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was ...

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams  

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Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Classical studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Media studies, Music, Performing arts, Philosophy, Religion, Society and culture
(1767–1848)US Republican statesman, 6th President of the USA (1825–29). The eldest son of President John Adams, he was minister to Britain (1809–14). As Secretary of State (1817–24) he helped to ...
Persia

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East

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2011
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Archaeology, History
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...against Seleucid rule at this time. This is evidenced by the destruction level of the citadel at Pasargadae in southwestern Iran, which on the basis of numismatic evidence dates to the end of Seleucus's reign. [See Pasargadae .] In addition, Persian troops in Persis started a mutiny, which resulted in their massacre by Greek infantry and cavalry, and we also hear of a massacre of three thousand Macedonian settlers by local troops in Persis. By the time of his death In 261 , Antiochus had consolidated the empire of his father. Both Seleucus and Antiochus...

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