• The Parma Barricades (Barricate di Parma), also known as the siege of Parma, were a series of battles between anti-fascist forces of the Arditi del Popolo...
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    designer. In 1921, he was transferred to Parma due to his political activity. There, during the Parma Barricades, in August 1922 together with Guido Picelli...
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    of the Arditi's most important successes was in Parma during the events known as the Barricades of Parma in August 1922, when 350 arditi, directed by the...
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    international Catholic-Spanish army under the command of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma. After his victory over the Catholic forces commanded by Charles, Duke of...
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    an Estates General due to be called in late 1588 after the Day of the Barricades in Paris forced further concessions from the king, Aumale ensured the...
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    the Italian Senate and was the mayor of Parma from 1951 to 1953. Ferrari was born in Langhirano, Province of Parma, on 5 November 1887 into a wealthy bourgeois...
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    seize control of the capital in the future. The group planned to utilise barricades to impede royal movement across the city, however their plan was uncovered...
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    defeat the Calvinists. On 12 May 1588, the Day of the Barricades, a popular uprising raised barricades on the streets of Paris to defend the Duke of Guise...
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  • but the duke was popular with the masses. Further, after the Day of the Barricades, an uprising planned in part by the Spanish diplomat Bernardino de Mendoza...
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    the Catholic ligue, which seized control of Paris during the Day of the Barricades. In 1589, after the assassination of his cousin by Henri III Aumale and...
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    an Italian tricolour scarf. The Italian tricolour also flew over the barricades of the Ten Days of Brescia, a revolt of the citizens of the Lombard city...
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    Modena and the Papal Legations inspired similar activity in the Duchy of Parma, where the tricolore flag was adopted. The Parmese duchess Marie Louise...
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    revolutionaries were breaking out all over the city as the population built up barricades. An attempt by Archduke Ferdinand to pacify the situation failed as, appearing...
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    was in less of a mood to compromise with the ligueurs and demanded the barricades be dismantled, city be disarmed and the ligueur commanders Boisdauphin...
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    against the conservative majority in the National Assembly. Hundreds of barricades appeared in the working-class neighborhoods. General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac...
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    militias disarmed more than 200 members of the security forces at their barricades, allowing only CNT vehicles to pass through. After unsuccessful appeals...
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    to fortify the pass, which already served as a natural fortress, with barricades. Under the command of General Deym, 2 infantry battalions, 1 cavalry company...
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    bezetting en barricades in Amsterdam en Utrecht: studentenprotesten vanwege de Gaza-oorlog breiden uit" [A demonstration, occupation and barricades in Amsterdam...
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    revolution, with revolutionary juntas organised on 17 July in Madrid, and barricades erected in the streets. With the prospect of a civil war on the horizon...
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    surrendered wearing a tricolour scarf. The tricolour also flew over the barricades of the Ten Days of Brescia, a revolt of the citizens of the Lombard city...
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    mobilised, driven by patriotic fervour and economic hardship, assembling barricades and attacking the infrastructure of Charles X. Within days, the situation...
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    he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack. In 1502, he created a scheme for diverting...
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    directly and in March 1629, an army led by Louis XIII of France stormed barricades blocking the Pas de Suse. By the end of the month, they had lifted the...
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    of Parma had relieved Rouen in April 1592 and had skilfully avoided an engagement with Henry's Protestant army. After having entered Rouen Parma then...
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    failure to defeat the Calvinists. On 12 May 1588, a popular uprising raised barricades on the streets of Paris, and Henry III fled the city. The Committee of...
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    Blois where he attained refuge after an uprising called the Day of the Barricades. In response, Duke Henry I of Guise was assassinated on 23 December 1588...
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    assaulting him with a chair, and bashing his head into the ringside barricades. On August 1, 2008, Gargano defeated Iron in a Last Man Standing match...
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    Ville and erected barricades in the center. Marmont marched his soldiers from the Palais-Royal to the Bastille to clear the barricades there, then back...
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    minimal gains for vast expenditure, while the Spanish gained the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla. Prussia, often considered the clearest winner,...
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    the edict. In May 1588, the crown was gravely shaken by the day of the Barricades, a ligueur uprising of Parisians with the duc de Guise at their head,...
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