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George Washington and the Continental Congress hoped to sever French-speaking eastern Quebec from the rest of British Canada and bring it into the war as a 14th rebel colony.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Voters in northern states such as Michigan that border Canada and conduct lots of trade with that country could rebel over the latest flare-up in tensions.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Mr. Sharaa, the victorious rebel commander, now complies with the IAEA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Like, the rebel I am, I love to juxtapose," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

In 1959, a rebel force led by Fidel Castro had overthrown the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, an authoritarian leader supported by the United States and by the many American companies doing business on the island.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Since 2004, a low-level conflict has simmered in the southernmost provinces of Buddhist-majority Thailand, as rebels in the Muslim-majority region battle for greater autonomy.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The move highlights the complexity of tackling Ebola amid ongoing hostilities between the Congolese government and the rebels.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels are escalating attacks along the country’s Red Sea coast, pushing closer to the key Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Central Command is reviewing 15 additional incidents during the campaign against Houthi rebels that could have caused civilian casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The rebels fled into the rugged Sierra Maestra and, very slowly, began to gather strength.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Unlike the majority of his generational cohort, he never rebelled against the establishment that promoted it.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

Paraguay’s national anthem starts by stating that the people of the Americas were “oppressed for three centuries” until they rebelled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

After running almost two and a half miles, the youngsters rebelled and fled into a private yard beside the road.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

Prosecutors say Mr. Mangione wrote in a notebook that he was rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"I'm playing Caesar in the first film, leading the apes to freedom and rebelling and breaking out of the facility," he recalls.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers pace across the United States.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

When it came to creating this new government, rebelling against and pushing back against restrictions we had experienced under English common law, press freedom was seen to be essential.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

I had moved from the role of a gadfly within the organization to one of the powers that I had been rebelling against.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela