In spring he moved to Bucharest, but soon the June 1990 Mineriad broke out and barely managed to hide from a group of armed miners looking for him.
On December 4, 1860 a force of thirty armed miners led by James H. Tevis attacked at sunrise, claiming it was retaliation for stolen livestock.
Cornwell discouraged an armed miners' march in 1919 by assuring them he would address the miners' grievances.
The strike quickly degenerated into open revolt, with armed miners fighting the South African police and army in the streets.
The violence culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain where 10,000 to 15,000 armed miners confronted police, militia, and private detectives in August 1921.
On July 14, 300 armed miners attacked the stockade and marched the convicts out of the valley.
A train car was intercepted by armed striking miners, and the strikebreakers were sent home unharmed.
His first term began in 1952 and was secured by a revolution of armed miners and peasants.
Stalin put Vano Kiasashvili in charge of the armed miners.
But groups of armed, striking miners would frequently meet them, and often persuaded the workers not to take the jobs during a strike.
