List of uprisings against Entente powers during World War I

The Triple Entente describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It formed a powerful counterweight to the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire. The conquest of many of these regions created resentment against the Entente colonial governments. Many of these regions had former uprisings or were in a constant state of rebellion.

When World War I broke out in late 1914 many communities saw it as their chance to overthrow the local colonial Entente governments. This was encouraged on 14 November 1914 when the religious leaders of the Ottoman Empire declared a holy war or jihad against the Entente powers.^[1]

Australia

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Battle of Broken Hill	Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia	Badsha Mahommed Gool Mullah Abdullah	Australia United Kingdom	1 January 1915	1 January 1915	Suppressed	^[2]

Africa

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Maritz rebellion	South Africa	South African Republic	United Kingdom	15 September 1914	4 February 1915	Suppressed	^[3]
Chilembwe uprising	Nyasaland (now Malawi)	Chilembwe and his followers	United Kingdom	23 January 1915	26 January 1915	Suppressed	^[4]
Bussa rebellion	Bussa, Nigeria	Supporters of Sabukki, a local prince of the Borgu Emirate	United Kingdom	June 1915	June 1915	Suppressed	^[5]
Adubi War	Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria	Egba rebels	United Kingdom	June 1918 June–July 1918	July 1918	Suppressed

North Africa

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition	Darfur, now part of Sudan	Sultanate of Darfur	United Kingdom	16 March 1916	6 November 1916	Suppressed	^[6]
Senussi campaign	Egypt Libya	Senussi	United Kingdom Italy	January 1915	November 1918	Suppressed	^[7]
Zaian War	French protectorate of Morocco	Zaian Confederation	France	1914	1921	Suppressed	^[8]

British India

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Operations against the Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis in 1915	North-West Frontier Province, British India	2,000 tribesmen from Khost	United Kingdom	1915	1915	Suppressed	^[9]
Operations against the Mahsuds	North-West Frontier Province, British India	Mahsuds tribe	United Kingdom	June 1917	July 1917	Suppressed	^[10]
Mohmand blockade	Mohmand border along North-West Frontier Province, British India	Mohmand tribe	United Kingdom	1915	July 1917	Suppressed	^[11]
Operations in the Tochi	Tochi River, North-West Frontier Province, British India	Three tribes (Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis	United Kingdom	28 November 1914	27 March 1915	Suppressed	^[12]

Europe

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Easter Rising	Ireland	Irish nationalist forces	United Kingdom	24 April 1916	29 April 1916	Suppressed	^[13]

Middle East

Name	Location	Insurrectionist	Entente Power	Start Date	End Date	Result	Notes
Muscat rebellion	Muscat and Oman (now Oman)	Imamate of Oman	United Kingdom	1913	25 September 1920	Suppressed	^[14]

Footnotes

^ Gündoğdu 2020, p. 243.
^ Dash 2011.
^ Sondhaus 2020, p. 104.
^ Olson & Shadle 1996, p. 291; Strachan 2001, pp. 600, 636, 642.
^ Strachan 2001, p. 542.
^ Daly 2010, p. 113; Macmunn & Falls 1996, pp. 145–151.
^ Macmunn & Falls 1996, pp. 101–153.
^ Jaques 2007, p. 383.
^ Strachan 2001, pp. 790, 807–808.
^ Strachan 2001, pp. 807–808.
^ Macro 2019, p. 81.
^ London Gazette 1915.
^ Koch 2006, p. 984.
^ Landen 2016, pp. 392–399.

References

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World War I

Theatres

European	Balkans Serbia Western Front Eastern Front Romania Italian Front
Middle Eastern	Gallipoli Sinai and Palestine Caucasus Persia Mesopotamia South Arabia Central Arabia
African	South West East Kamerun Togoland North
Asian and Pacific	Tsingtao German Samoa German New Guinea
Naval warfare	U-boat campaign North Atlantic Mediterranean

Principal
participants

Entente Powers	Leaders Belgium Brazil China France French Empire Greece Italy Japan Empire of Japan Montenegro Portuguese Empire Romania Russia Russian Empire Russian Republic Serbia Siam United Kingdom British Empire United States
Central Powers	Leaders Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Senussi South African Republic Darfur

Timeline

Pre-War conflicts	Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) Scramble for Africa (1880–1914) Russo-Japanese War (1905) Tangier Crisis (1905–06) Bosnian Crisis (1908–09) Agadir Crisis (1911) Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) First Balkan War (1912–13) Second Balkan War (1913)
Prelude	Origins Historiography Sarajevo assassination Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo July Crisis
Autumn 1914	German invasion of Belgium Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Cer Battle of Galicia Russian invasion of East Prussia Battle of Tannenberg Siege of Tsingtao First Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Grand Couronné First Battle of the Marne Siege of Przemyśl Race to the Sea First Battle of Ypres Black Sea raid Battle of Kolubara Battle of Sarikamish
Winter 1914	Christmas truce
1915	Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Łomża Second Battle of Ypres Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Battle of Gallipoli Second Battle of Artois Battles of the Isonzo Gorlice–Tarnów offensive Great Retreat Bug-Narew Offensive Siege of Novogeorgievsk Vistula–Bug offensive Second Battle of Champagne Kosovo offensive Siege of Kut Battle of Loos Battle of Robat Karim
1916	Erzurum offensive Battle of Verdun Lake Naroch offensive Battle of Asiago Battle of Jutland Battle of the Somme first day Brusilov offensive Baranovichi offensive Battle of Romani Monastir offensive Battle of Transylvania
1917	Capture of Baghdad February Revolution Zimmermann Telegram Second Battle of Arras Second Battle of the Aisne Kerensky offensive Battle of Mărăști Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Battle of Mărășești Third Battle of Oituz Battle of Caporetto Southern Palestine offensive October Revolution Battle of La Malmaison Battle of Cambrai Armistice of Focșani Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers
1918	Operation Faustschlag Treaty of Brest-Litovsk German spring offensive Zeebrugge Raid Treaty of Bucharest of 1918 Battle of Goychay Second Battle of the Piave River Second Battle of the Marne Hundred Days Offensive Vardar offensive Battle of Megiddo Third Transjordan attack Meuse–Argonne offensive Battle of Vittorio Veneto Armistice of Salonica Armistice of Mudros Armistice of Villa Giusti Second Romanian campaign Armistice with Germany Armistice of Belgrade
Co-belligerent conflicts	Somaliland campaign (1900–1920) Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) Maritz rebellion (1914–15) Muscat rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917) Volta-Bani War (1915–1917) National Protection War Arab Revolt (1916-1918) Central Asian Revolt (1916–17) Invasion of Darfur (1916) Easter Rising (1916) Kaocen revolt (1916–17) Russian Revolution (1917) Finnish Civil War (1918)
Post-War conflicts	Russian Civil War (1917–1921) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–1921) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920) Armeno-Georgian War (1918) German Revolution (1918–19) Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–19) Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920) Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918–1920) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–19) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Egyptian Revolution (1919) Polish–Lithuanian War (1919–1920) Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) Turkish War of Independence Franco-Turkish War (1918–1921) Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Iraqi Revolt (1920) Vlora War (1920) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Soviet–Georgian War (1921)

Aspects

Warfare

Conscription	Australia Canada Ottoman Empire United Kingdom Ireland United States

Casualties /
Civilian impact

British casualties
- Parliamentarians
Ottoman casualties
Sports
- Rugby
- Olympians

Disease	1899–1923 cholera pandemic 1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia Spanish flu
Occupations	Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia Bulgarian occupations Albania Serbia German occupations Belgium Luxembourg Northeast France Ober Ost Occupied Enemy Territory Administration Russian occupations Eastern Galicia Western Armenia
POWs	Germans in the United States Italians POW locations Canada Germany / camps Switzerland
Refugees	Belgian refugees Netherlands United Kingdom
War crimes	Allied blockades Eastern Mediterranean Mount Lebanon famine Germany Deportations from East Prussia Destruction of Kalisz Sack of Dinant Late Ottoman genocides Armenian genocide Assyrian genocide (Sayfo) Pontic Greek genocide Rape of Belgium Urkun (Kyrgyzstan) Massacres of Albanians Ukrainian Canadian internment

Diplomacy

Entry into the war	Austria-Hungary France Germany Italy Japan Ottoman Empire Russia United Kingdom United States
Declarations of war	Austria-Hungary against Serbia UK against Germany Ottomans against the Triple Entente USA against Germany USA against Austria-Hungary
Agreements	Constantinople Agreement Treaty of London Damascus Protocol Bulgaria–Germany treaty Treaty of Darin Sykes–Picot Agreement Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement Paris Economy Pact Treaty of Bucharest Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Peace treaties	modus vivendi of Acroma Treaties of Brest-Litovsk Russia–Central Powers Ukraine–Central Powers Treaty of Bucharest Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Treaty of St. Germain Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Trianon Treaty of Sèvres Treaty of Lausanne

Other

Category

v t e Uprisings against Entente Powers during World War I
Australia	Battle of Broken Hill (1915)
Africa	Nigeria (1915) Maritz rebellion (15 September 1914 – 4 February 1915) Chilembwe uprising (23 January 1915 – 26 January 1915) Somaliland (1900 – 1920) Nigeria (1918)
North Africa	Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition (16 March – 6 November 1916) Senussi campaign (January 1915 – November 1918) Zaian War (1914–1921)
British India	Operations against the Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis in 1915 (1915) Operations against the Mahsuds (June–July 1917) Mohmand blockade (1915 – July 1917) Operations in the Tochi (28 November 1914 – 27 March 1915)
Europe	Easter Rising (24–29 April 1916)