war of independence
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During the War of Independence, he agreed with his officers’ discontent with Congress but equated rebellion against Congress with treason: “This dreadful alternative of either deserting our country . . . or turning our arms against it, which is the apparent object, unless Congress can be compelled into instant compliance, has something so shocking in it that humanity revolts at the idea.”
Too many men from our community were killed in the Turkish War of Independence—husbands, fathers, uncles, brothers, sons, cousins.
From Literature
Papa has agreed to marry me off to a distant cousin who fled to Cuba years ago so he could escape fighting in the War of Independence.
From Literature
Explaining why she picked The Story of Tonight - a number in which revolutionaries in the American War of Independence sing about the future and friendship - Badenoch said it reminded her of the first time she ran to be leader of the Conservative Party in 2022.
From BBC
The combined result of mass emigration and decreased female fertility is that live births in Cuba plunged to levels below those of 1899, when Cuba emerged from a bloody three-year war of independence that decimated its population, said Albizu-Campos.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
