Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
I think this is possible because you owned the province at the end-turn, not the rebels. If I'm not mistaken, once the rebels truly own a province then no loyalist rebellions occur. They are still susceptible to reemergences though.
When extensive rebellions occur I can't hold all the provinces with loyalty at zero and no more than garrisoning troops in each. So I set the taxes to very low and withdraw all the troops to a couple of provinces I can hold by doing so. When the rebellions do occur they are usually one-two units due to having no royal forces in the province. So I move in from the shelter province and recapture what used to be mine. As you see, that rules out you supposition that I still could have owned the provinces in the situation described. I simply didn't have enough troops.