mutiny
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Alekseyev, who had longtime links with Wagner, was detained after the mutiny and later released.
In March 1783 Gen. George Washington put down a conspiracy among some of his officers who wanted to mutiny against Congress.
In 1971, he joined a mutiny against West Pakistani forces and declared independence for Bangladesh.
From BBC
I proclaimed, embarking on a brief and ineffective cane mutiny.
But he preferred to concentrate all his attention on the mutiny aboard the Potemkin in June 1905.
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