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    Leisler's Rebellion was an uprising in late-17th century colonial New York in which German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control...
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  • Jacob Milborne (category American rebels)
    son-in-law of the rebel Jacob Leisler, served briefly as Attorney General of the province, and was executed for his part in Leisler's Rebellion. Milborne...
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  • 1691. Sloughter was the governor who put down Leisler's Rebellion, which had installed Jacob Leisler as de facto governor in 1689. He died suddenly in July...
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  • and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596) 1691 – Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)...
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    serotine, barbastelle, Daubenton's, brown long-eared, Natterer's and Leisler's. Herds of red and fallow deer roam freely within much of Richmond and...
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    land consisting of six thousand one hundred acres with the help of Jacob Leisler. It was named New Rochelle after La Rochelle, their former strong-hold...
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  • Revolution. 1689 – April: Dominion of New England overthrown in Boston. June: Leisler's Rebellion. July: Proprietary government overthrown in Maryland. War breaks...
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    one of the "rebels". The rebels opened fire but were unable to dislodge Neville, who had his slaves' help to defend the house. The rebels retreated to...
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    1786 and 1787. Historically, scholars have argued that the four thousand rebels, called Shaysites, who protested against economic and civil rights injustices...
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    Dominion Governor Edmund Andros. The province of New York rebelled in May in what is known as Leisler's Rebellion. King William's War with France began during...
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  • Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Leisler's Rebellion, an uprising in which militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of lower New York from 1689...
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    the Cold War. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-61234-586-4. Walther Leisler Kiep (2012). Bridge Builder: An Insider's Account of Over Sixty Years in...
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    raiding Spanish cities under a guise of legitimacy. New York Governors Jacob Leisler and Benjamin Fletcher were removed from office in part for their dealings...
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    Revolt. Nicholson himself was soon caught up in the civil unrest from Leisler's Rebellion in New York Town, and afterwards fled to England. Nicholson...
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    Louisiana. The slave insurgency was the largest in U.S. history, but the rebels killed only two White men. Confrontations with militia, combined with post-trial...
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  • the models for the United States Bill of Rights. The Boston Revolt and Leisler's Rebellion occurs. Toleration Act 1688 is passed by Parliament which gives...
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  • into slavery, including trained soldiers. It is likely that Jemmy and his rebel cohort were such military men, as they fought hard against the militia when...
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    he had been an anti-Leislerite, allied with those who engineered Jacob Leisler's trial and hanging in 1691 and therefore faced a perilous future in the...
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    May 16 John Alford, English politician (b. 1645) Jacob Leisler, Leader of the Leisler Rebellion, de facto governor of New York (b. 1640) Jacob Milborne,...
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    in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt...
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    Island in 1685. The land grant was renewed in 1687. The next year, Jacob Leisler bought 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of the remaining property on behalf of the...
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    1680s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    hearth tax is collected in England and Wales. May 31 – Leisler's Rebellion: Calvinist Jacob Leisler deposes lieutenant governor Francis Nicholson and assumes...
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    expressed outrage at the execution of Leisler and harbored enemies of Fletcher and the New York government that replaced Leisler. Phips' ongoing struggles with...
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    affair (1768) Boston Massacre (1770) Shays' Rebellion (1786–1787) New York Leisler's Rebellion (1689–1691) New York Slave Revolt of 1712 New York Conspiracy...
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  • – Pekka T. Lehtinen Leidy – Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) Leisler – Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1771–1813) Le Leouff – Jean Le Leouff Lembeye – Juan...
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    Brown had been sure that he would get major support from slaves ready to rebel; his followers said to a man that he had told them that. But Brown had no...
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  • Gloucester County, Virginia Slave Rebellion (1663) Bacon's Rebellion (1676) Leisler's Rebellion (1689–1691) Stono Rebellion (1739) Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766)...
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  • 1690s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    May 16 John Alford, English politician (b. 1645) Jacob Leisler, Leader of the Leisler Rebellion, de facto governor of New York (b. 1640) Jacob Milborne,...
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    Daubenton's bat, whiskered bat, Brandt's bat, Natterer's bat, common noctule, Leisler's bat, common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle and brown long-eared bat...
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    simultaneously deposed by a military faction led by Jacob Leisler, Leisler's Rebellion. Leisler would govern New York until 1691 when he was captured and...
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