Mutinies in a sentence

Given the political magnitude of naval mutinies, it is unsurprising that officials have taken steps to prevent such revolts, and to suppress them as quickly as possible when they break out.

Of the mutinies discussed here, two happened during the Great Depression, two at the end of disastrous wars, and one in the midst of a crisis of modernity.

Writers covering wars or uprisings in antiquity tended to focus more on mutinies than desertions.

He has no rebel force opposing him and has managed, following a series of mutinies in 2014 and 2017, to bring the army under tighter control.

Some of these mutinies were put down without consequence, others led to bloodshed, and still others helped spark revolution.

Police officers guarding the exterior of the presidential palace in La Paz remained in their barracks on Saturday, while officers in other Bolivian cities have declared mutinies and joined protests against President Evo Morales.

The movement continued into 1906 with further mutinies and strikes.

As a writer on India, he offered the outsider’s bewildered, shocked perspective on the “million mutinies” that raged within.

Despite these mutinies, the armed forces were largely apolitical and remained mostly loyal, if dissatisfied — and were widely used by the government to control the 1905 unrest.

During the Soviet offensive the Army of Manchukuo, on paper a 200,000-man force, performed poorly and whole units surrendered to the Soviets without firing a single shot; there were even cases of armed riots and mutinies against the Japanese forces.

During this chaotic period there were frequent mutinies, protests and many strikes.

Gibraltar, pg. 105. Quoted in Gibraltar: British or Spanish?, pg. 8. * 1802 – Several mutinies among some regiments garrisoned in Gibraltar.

He became soon unpopular within the army, resulting in violent mutinies in 1996–1997.

In 1780 actual mutinies broke out in the American camp.

In 1918, mutinies broke out in the military.

In 1996–1997, reflecting steadily decreasing public confidence in the government's erratic behaviour, three mutinies against Patassé's administration were accompanied by widespread destruction of property and heightened ethnic tension.

In early 1994, political instability increased as first the army, followed by the police and prisons services, engaged in mutinies.

It included terrorism, worker strikes, peasant unrest and military mutinies, and was only suppressed after a fierce battle.

Its disloyalty to the president came to the fore during the mutinies in 1996–1997, but ever since then it has faced internal problems.

Later in 2000, Fiji was rocked by two mutinies when rebel soldiers went on a rampage at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks.