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108 matches to Seven Against Thebes
Lese Majesty. Crime against state or its ruler. Treason.
Lincolnshire Insurection. 1536. Against taxes, Dissolution of Monasteries.
Lysias. c445-380BC. Greek orator. Unembellished style.Against Eratosthenes 404BC.
Martello Towers. 1804. Swiss designed defensive towers on English coast against Napoleon.
Mitlosh. 1780-1860. Serbian prince. Led revolt against Turkey 1827.
Montfort, Simon de. c1165-1218. French leader of crusade against Albigenses. Conquered south France.
National Covenant. 1638. Oath to maintain Scottish Presbyterianism against Charles I episcopacy. 1638-90. Presbyterians persecuted in Scotland. 1643-67 Solemn League allied with Parliament in Civil War. 1647-supported Charles. 1661 illegal.
Nivelle, Jean. 1422-77. Son of John II who refused to march against Burgundy.
Philip II. 1527-98. Spanish king. Revolt, 1579. Married Mary I of England. Sent Armada against Elizabeth I, 1588. Counter-Reformation champion.
Philippics. Acrimonious orations of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedonia.
Pilgrimage of Grace. 1536. Catholic uprising in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire against dissolution of monasteries, taxation and inflation.
Rankin, Jeanette. 1880-1973. First US Congresswoman. 1917-9, 1941-3. Only vote against declaring war on Japan. WWII.
Reformation. 16C religious movement against practices of Roman Catholic church led to founding of Protestant churches. Luther. Calvin. Knox. Zwingli. Henry VIII.
Savonarola, Girolamo. 1452-98. Led Florence 1494- after Medici overthrow. Reformer against vice and corruption in the church and society. Burned books, paintings, luxuries. Hung+burned.
Spanish Armada. 1588. English support Dutch Revolt. Philip II sends 129 ships against England. Howard, Drake, Hawkins, with 197 ships, chase the armada from English Channel, thanks to a NW gale. Spain declines as naval power. Wars of Religion.
Spanish Civil War. 1936-9. Germany and Italy aid Fascist Franco’s revolt against the Republic, which surrenders after 1M die. International Brigades. A cause of WWII. Guernica.
Spartacus. -71BC. Leader of slaves revolt against Rome 73BC. Defeated and killed by Crassus. Servile War.
Speyer, Diet. 1526,1529. Luther’s protest against the church’s intolerance of Reformers.
Star Chamber. 1327-1641. English tribunal to try offences against the state. Abused by Charles I.
Suárez, Francisco. 1548-1617. Spanish Scholastic philosopher, Jesuit theologian. Wrote against divine right of kings.
Trade Disputes Act. 1906. British unions immune from suits against members’ activities.
White Terror. 1815. Against Jacobins and Bonapartists.
William I. The Silent. 1533-84. Prince of Orange. Dutch leader of Protestant revolt against Philip II of Spain. Founded dynasty to today. Netherlands.
Xanthos, Sieges. Lycians defend against: 546BC Persians. 43BC Romans. Residents commit mass suicide both times. Asia Minor.
Aetolian League. 4-2C BC. Confederation of Greek city states, led by Thebes.