Nevertheless, it has been argued that British behaviour overall was good compared to most other examples where a foreign army suppressed a popular insurgency.

After a fortnight of fierce fighting, a Serbian army of 100,000 regulars suppressed the uprising.

Von Zimmerer's army finally suppressed the rebellion in 1895.

"They spread rumors like 'the army is suppressing the students' to confuse and poison the people's minds."

The Indian army marched into Hyderabad and suppressed them by Police action in 1948.

The army suppressed riots and counter-revolutionary activities.

Those protests, against corruption, inflation and political repression, persisted until the army violently suppressed them on June 4 of that year.

The Serbian army of 100,000 regulars suppressed the uprising in several days.

The army managed to disperse the crowd yet again and finally suppressed the riot.

The sultan saw that his army could not suppress the revolt, and he hired mercenaries of French origin.