| They were under the general orders of Mola and Franco, the leaders of the military insurrection that had sparked the Spanish Civil War. |
| One sector, led by the Ministry of Education and the Mayor of Caracas, called for a popular insurrection to defend the government. |
| In 1920 British troops put down an insurrection in Iraq, and crushed protests and strikes in favour of independence in Egypt. |
| Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot. |
| In February 1917 economic strikes and food protests led by women fused into a general strike that drew the army into an insurrection. |
| For a short while, the police continued to insist that they had thwarted an armed insurrection. |
