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Emiliano Zapata was a pivotal figure in Mexico’s 20th-century revolution. As a leading agrarian rebel, he championed the Plan de Ayala, advocating for land redistribution and returning property to rural communities. His actions profoundly influenced Mexican nationalism and continue to resonate with...

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a Roman Catholic priest and a leading initiator of the Mexican War of Independence. On 16 September 1810, he issued the appeal remembered as the Grito de Dolores, calling supporters to rise against Spanish colonial authority. Hidalgo led a large insurgent movement durin...

Túpac Amaru II, born José Gabriel Condorcanqui, was an indigenous Peruvian nobleman of Inca descent who led a massive uprising against Spanish colonial rule in 1780. The rebellion began in the Andean region as a protest against heavy taxation and labor abuses. Although the revolt was ultimately supp...

The Battle of Aleppo was a major military engagement of the Syrian Civil War, lasting from 2012 to 2016 in Syria's largest city. The conflict began when rebel forces captured eastern neighborhoods, leading to a divided city and a prolonged stalemate with Syrian government forces controlling the west...

William Wallace was a Scottish military leader active during the First War of Scottish Independence. In 1297, forces led by Wallace and Andrew Moray defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, after which Wallace served as Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland. He was later captured by...

Zenobia was the 3rd-century ruler of Palmyra, an influential trading city in Roman Syria, initially governing on behalf of her young son Vaballathus. Palmyrene forces extended their control across much of the Roman East and occupied Egypt during the political instability of the Roman Empire. Emperor...

Andrés Bonifacio was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary leader who played a central role in the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. In 1892, he co-founded the Katipunan, a secret society dedicated to achieving independence through armed revolt, and served as its leader or "Sup...

Túpac Katari, born Julián Apaza, was an Aymara indigenous leader who orchestrated a massive rebellion against Spanish colonial rule in Upper Peru, now modern-day Bolivia. In 1781, he and his wife Bartolina Sisa led a blockade of tens of thousands of indigenous fighters that surrounded the city of La...

Hristo Botev was a prominent Bulgarian poet, journalist, and national revolutionary who played a key role in the 1876 April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Born in Kalofer, he spent much of his youth in exile in Romania, where he worked as a teacher and editor while developing his revolutionary...

Rebel Creamery Triple Chocolate is a packaged frozen dessert made from cream and cocoa, with chocolate flakes and a chocolate swirl. The product is formulated as a low-carbohydrate, no-added-sugar ice cream and uses sweeteners including erythritol and monk fruit rather than ordinary table sugar. The...

Yemelyan Pugachev was a Yaik Cossack and the leader of a major uprising in the Russian Empire from 1773 to 1775. Presenting himself as the supposedly surviving Emperor Peter III, he attracted Cossacks, peasants, serfs, and other groups opposed to the government of Catherine II. The rebellion combine...

Rebel Creamery Butter Pecan is a butter-pecan flavored ice cream product from Rebel Creamery. It belongs to the company's keto-oriented line and is formulated for consumers seeking a low-carbohydrate dessert, while the product description specifies that it contains no sugar alcohols. Its defining ch...

Vincent Ogé was a free man of color in the French colony of Saint-Domingue who led an armed revolt in 1790. He demanded that colonial authorities enforce political rights recently extended to some free people of color, making the uprising part of the wider conflict over race, citizenship, and repres...

Li Zicheng was a Chinese rebel leader who rose during the peasant uprisings that weakened the Ming dynasty in the seventeenth century. His forces entered Beijing in 1644, after which the Chongzhen Emperor died and Li proclaimed the Shun dynasty. Li was soon driven from the capital after the Ming gen...

Gabriela Silang (1731-1763) was a Filipino revolutionary leader who became one of the first women to lead a movement for independence from Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. After her husband Diego Silang was assassinated in 1763, she assumed command of the Ilocano revolt he had started in th...

Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion in China. After reportedly experiencing visions, Hong came to believe he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and began preaching a syncretic form of Christianity mixed with Chinese philosophical elements. In 1851, he established th...

Mirza Kuchik Khan was an Iranian revolutionary and nationalist leader associated with the Jungle Movement in Gilan. In 1920, the movement helped establish the short-lived Gilan Soviet Republic during a period of political conflict and foreign intervention in Iran. He is studied in connection with Ir...