Ralliés.
Members of the Catholic and Reactionary parties in France who in 1890 declared their adhesion to the Republican Government, and their abandonment of reactionary principles. The leader of the movement was Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers.
Rapparees.
Bands of Irish brigands who waged a guerilla warfare against the Protestant settlers in Ireland circ. 1711.
Rappenkrieg.
The War of Farthings, a revolt of the peasants against the city of Berne in 1594.
Raskol.
The great schism in the Russian Church in the seventeenth century. The dissenters objected to certain innovations in ritual introduced by Nikon, the Patriarch, in order to correct errors which had crept in owing to careless copying of Liturgies and other religious books. The dissenters were excommunicated, and thousands fled from the country.
Ratipole.
A nickname of Napoleon III.