Great Rebellion

noun

1. English Civil War.

Great Rebellion

noun

1. the Great Rebellion
   another name for the English Civil War

Example Sentences

President Abraham Lincoln observed that he had arrived in Washington only to find “an empty Treasury and a great rebellion.”

From Washington Post

Observed the former Union general in his address to the nation, “The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding Administrations have never had to deal with.”

From National Geographic

In Detroit, the 1967 "Great Rebellion" was provoked by a police attack on an unlicensed bar frequented by industrial workers getting off of long shifts.

From Salon

At its best, this boozy style of disobedient social life has given shape and impetus to legitimate demonstration; every college old enough to have had a campus in the early nineteenth century hosted at least one “Great Rebellion” against restrictive policies.

From The New Yorker

Jacob dreamt of raising the Jews of Paris in a great rebellion, washing over the bridge in waves of righteous anger like the Maccabees washed over the Greeks.

From Literature