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Show 118 continued their 1961:676). military opposition While thousands the killed, were through their relentless military to the efforts king and his, troops in the end the revolutionaries destruction of the Majlis of Iran. so [Assembly] spread February 8, at the on Hamedan and Shiraz on ever since the to otherctttes and January 2, 1909, ports of Bandar Abbas and Bushire March 25 and at Mashhad on was "The flame that successfully kept alive Revolt broke out at Isfahan This emerged triumphant. outcome, despite the strength of the king's troops. the nationalists of Tabriz had (Kasravi, on provinces at Rasht on March 17, at April 6" (Ramazani, 1966:87). Some of these the cities and began Alighuli-Khan, revolutionaries, supported by the people, occupied to prepare to move toward Tehran. Meanwhile, Haji chief of the Bakhtiari tribes and supporter 'of the Revolu tion, sent his brother, Sardar Asaad, who had been educated with his armed tribesmen toward Tehran In in Europe, (Daneshvar Alavi, 1956:48-61). addition, the revolutionaries of Rasht moved toward Tehran and occupied Qazvin, the city closest The guard a to Tehran (Daneshvar Alavi, 1956:61-80). king's troops, commanded by-the Russians, left Tehran strategic pass on the northwestern route tothe -capital. to But the revolutionaries from Rasht and the Bakhtiari tribes moved from the south and north toward Tehran, and defeated the king-s troops. marched into Tehran in June, 1909 The Bakhtiari's (Daneshvar Alavi, 1956:61-80). |
