[Discuss] Region claims during wartime

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Hmmm... what's the difference between civil war and a rebellion? Is it
> just how long it goes on for?

If the rebels win, it's a glorious revolution.  If they lose and  
there are only a few of them, it's an insurrection; if they lose and  
they constitute a lot of the realm, it's a civil war.

A civil war is also a good description of a failed *secession*.   
Actually, one of my characters refuses to recognise the people and  
regions who seceded from his realm as a *realm* and simply refers to  
them as rebels...

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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