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This varies with the revolution. A timeline at http://www.britannia.com/history/timelines.html (an excellent general resource) gives at least twenty revolutions, revolts and civil wars from Caractacus and Boudicca (fighting Roman occupiers) through to the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745 which saw the line of King James II having the right to the throne. In between these the best known uprisings and wars might be the Peasant's Revolt, with issues of taxation and rights, the Wars of the Roses, which was principally a dynastic fight between noble houses, and the English civil war between Charles I and Parliament, which involved the balance of powers and rights between the two, but other issues as well, particularly in Scotland. A late and different manifestation might be the Luddites and others rioting at changes wrought by the industrial revolution. The Glorious Revolution that brought William and Mary to the throne was caused by the King (James II) being Catholic. The people wanted to be Protestant. The revolution of British colonists on the American mainland in 1775 led to their seceding from Britain as the United States of America.

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