Although the workers were forced to return to their positions with no demand military.military_command met , the action was a key event in the general unrest that emerged during the final years of the regime of President Porfirio Díaz and that prefigured the Mexican Revolution of 1910 .

In 1814 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , facing certain defeat at the hands of Britain , Austria , Prussia and Russia ( the Sixth coalition ) , abdicates at the demand military.military_command his marshals .

The motto at the top of the emblem , Μολών Λαβέ , means `` Come and take them '' , and was uttered by the Spartan King Leonidas I , just prior to the Battle of Thermopylae , as a response to the Persian King Xerxes I 's demand military.military_command the surrender of the Spartans ' arms .

, the defiant reply of King Leonidas to the Persian demand military.military_command the Battle of Thermopylae for his 300 Spartans to lay down their arms in surrender .

Until after the defeat of Cannae it remained faithful to Rome , but , after a vain demand military.military_command one of the consuls should always be selected from it or perhaps in order to secure regional supremacy in the event of a Carthaginian victory , it defected to Hannibal , who made it his winter quarters : he and his army were voluntarily received by Capua .

Until during the Second World War when Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation , the collapse of the British imperial power in East Asia in the face of Japanese onslaught and also the emergence of a demand military.military_command the Chinese Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek for the retrocession of Hong Kong during the war , forced the British Government to seriously examine the possibility of constitutional reform in post-war Hong Kong .

Certain that General John Burgoyne 's defeat at the Battle of Saratoga two years before would mean a new nation , nearly 1,000 citizens of northern New York ( which then included what eventually became Vermont ) began the first popular demand military.military_command higher education in America .

As World War II draws to a close , white politics in the Union of South Africa are glaringly polarised - reflecting the struggle between Daniel Malan 's Reunited National Party , whose followers demand military.military_command republic , and the United Party of Jan Smuts , who wish to retain their British monarch .

This unitary model began to erode , however , when the Dominions gained more international prominence as a result of their participation and sacrifice in the First World War , in 1919 prompting Canadian prime minister Sir Robert Borden and South African minister of defence Jan Smuts to demand military.military_command the Dominions be given at the Versailles Conference full recognition as `` autonomous nations of an Imperial Commonwealth . ''

At the end of the Hundred Days , with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the chamber issued Napoleon a demand military.military_command abdication as Emperor of the French .

In 1862 , he accepted Ulysses S. Grant 's demand military.military_command an `` unconditional surrender '' at the Battle of Fort Donelson .

He served on the staff of Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott in the Siege of Veracruz , having been chosen by Scott to be the officer carrying the demand military.military_command surrender beforehand to the provincial governor .

During World War II , the Soviet Union was preparing to launch a pressure campaign against Turkey and Vyacheslav Molotov , then Minister of Foreign Affairs , formally presented a demand military.military_command the Turkish Ambassador in Moscow for the surrender of three Anatolian provinces ( Kars , Ardahan and Artvin ) ; thus , war against Turkey seemed possible , and Joseph Stalin wanted to clear the strategic Turkish population ( especially those situated in Meskheti ) located near the Turkish-Georgian border which were likely to be hostile to Soviet intentions .