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- their troops were untrained militia
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But each town in the colonies had a militia — a small group of volunteer fighters.
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militia = civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army
- They also had to help the khans form a militia by providing an armed man for every small plot of land.† (source)
- Two Pakistani militia approached our dilapidated Land Cruiser, took a cursory glance inside, and waved us on.† (source)
- "Abide with Me" was sung, then "Last Post" was played, a little shakily, by a bugler from the Scouts band, followed by two minutes of silence and a rifle volley fired by the Militia.† (source)
- I don't know why the State felt they needed a militia to guard the entrance to the prison on the night of an execution.† (source)
- Inside was a stockpile of guns and knives sufficient to arm a small militia.† (source)
- Governor Treat will be appointed Colonel of Militia.† (source)
- Bibwit retired to the library, where picture books from Alyss' earliest youth sat on shelves next to a ten-volume chronicle of the civil war, written from various points of view-the card soldiers who'd fought on the front lines; members of the chessmen militia; General Doppelganger and his sergeants; even Queen Genevieve herself.† (source)
- They had just laughed it off as one of those militia freaks.† (source)
- The Colonel and his brigade of Confederate soldiers and militia formed an impassable battery a seven guns across the road.† (source)
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- Fearing a bread riot, city authorities called out the militia.† (source)
- Militia units from the surrounding colonies piled into the city.† (source)
- This was the same garage where Aidid had held the rally to pump up his militia while we were in Pasha.† (source)
- The jundis were loyal Iraqi militia or soldiers who were being trained; there were a number of different groups, each with its own level of expertise and efficiency—or, most often, the opposite of both.† (source)
- After all, my grandfather is head of the militia.† (source)
- Most of them just look like indolent Third World militia the world over.† (source)
- How could we know if they were affiliated with a Taliban militia group or sworn by some tribal blood pact to inform the Taliban leaders of anything suspicious-looking they found in the mountains?† (source)
- An aging Mobutu supported Hutu militias in the eastern districts of his country and in Rwanda, militias that ultimately contributed to the Rwandan genocide.† (source)
- They decided they had to warn the communities surrounding Boston that the British were on their way, so that local militia could be roused to meet them.† (source)
- They shot each other over disagreements in the playground, they threatened the teachers if they received low grades on examinations, and one of them, a third-year student at La Salle Academy and a retired colonel in the militia, shot and killed Brother Juan Eremita, Prefect of the Community, because he said in catechism class that God was a full-fledged member of the Conservative Party.† (source)
- They joined forces with the Northern Alliance in the north of Afghanistan and a ragtag militia in the south led by a Pashtun tribal leader named Hamid Karzai, who would become the first president of Afghanistan.† (source)
- Here, on this planet, the Seekers had become practically a...militia-my new brain supplied the term for the unfamiliar concept.† (source)
- Militias consider it risky to engage in firefights with other gunmen, so instead they assault civilians.† (source)
- Bachelli was lost in the memory of boarding his troop ship in Naples in 1934; he was a young officer again in the 230th Legion of the National Fascist Militia, off to fight for Il Duce, off to capture Abyssinia, off to expunge the shame of being defeated at the battle of Adowa by Emperor Menelik in 1896.† (source)
- He took a leading part in organizing a militia unit, the Kentish Guards, only to be told that his stiff leg disqualified him from being an officer.† (source)
- In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home.† (source)
- A volunteer militia trained in the city square with rifles that had no bullets.† (source)
- Tens of thousands of Cuban militia have taken up positions to contain the rebel advance.† (source)
- The Toyota passed through six militia checkpoints before entering Waziristan proper.† (source)
- Many companies of troops and militia were hurrying to their posts, but there also were brawls, untold looters, and some who chose to greet Prusias's arrival with doomed, drunken revelry.† (source)
- These people constitute a national guard, a ready militia of language watchdogs who believe that English teachers are shirking their duty and that newspapers don't set their language standards nearly high enough.† (source)
- He was too old to go fight in the War of the Sixties, but they made him a general in the local militia.† (source)
- Gedney, Meade, appearing in full dress uniforms, and their lawyer, retired militia general Mark Isham, sat at a table near the far wall.† (source)
- Nobody told them to, nobody led them, nobody gave orders; Finn never had chance to control his half-trained disorderly militia.† (source)
- It seemed possible that it had already been defeated by the Hutu militias and that Bujumbura was even now a graveyard of Tutsis.† (source)
- The company went under in six months, and several years later some members of the "people's militia" in Hacker Republic, who did not easily forget an enemy, were still haunting the former CEO.† (source)
- Native Taliban forces mingle with foreign al Qaeda fighters, while mujahedeen militias also operate in the region.† (source)
- Alessandro would have to weave through German, Austrian, and Italian armies, border guards, militia, police, and districts where strangers were both detested and unknown.† (source)
- They were able to push forward on a broad front, mopping up little bands of our militia here and there, and looting as they liked, and meeting nothing to delay them seriously until they were twenty-five miles or more into civilized parts.† (source)
- Suddenly a dark-haired man, a member of Ten-Towns' Militia, Regis supposed, entered the alley and spotted the halfling.† (source)
- Militia would not stop old Bobby Lee.† (source)
- Professional, disciplined armies, rather than citizen-armies (militias), are used when there are frequent wars.† (source)
- Militias.† (source)
- He was a Maronite, a former member of the Lebanese Forces Christian militia, and a longtime contract employee of the Office.† (source)
- The Americans will increase troops in Vietnam to 170,000 soldiers with 120,000 militia and 11,000 American advisors.† (source)
- The local militia and Federal troops were called in to quell this unplanned and unrehearsed insurrection.† (source)
- Thus she did not quite believe in the war, not even when Troop C, our militia cavalry, was called out, loaded its horses on a train, and set out for the open world.† (source)
- JUDGE Well—he was made an Honorary Colonel in our State Militia.† (source)
- The neighboring yard was used by the workers' militia as an assembly point, something between a Red Cross post and a soup kitchen.† (source)
- Joel went, in all, three times to the militia's encampment on the Bayou Pierre, the last time on the day before the trial was to begin.† (source)
- "Telephone the governor, call out the militia," cried Teece.† (source)
- Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia
- The state militias contributed greatly to America's success during the Revolutionary War.
- Like it missed when Aidid's militia massed to attack us at Pasha.† (source)
- Trying to drive and shoot militia ducking in and out of side streets, I'd be surprised if I had as much as a 30 percent kill rate.† (source)
- In spite of only about 180 soldiers fighting against nearly 3,000 of Aidid's militia and civilian fighters, we captured Omar Salad, Mohamed Hassan Awale, Abdi Yusef Herse, and others.† (source)
- With one hand on the wheel, and the other holding my CAR-15, I fired thirty rounds, cutting down the women—and the four armed militia hiding behind them.† (source)
- Petty Officer Wasdin was the member of a security team in support of an assault force that conducted an air assault raid into an enemy compound and successfully apprehended two key militia officials and twenty-two others.† (source)
- And when soldiers from a rival militia capture these boys, they torture them.† (source)
- General David Wooster was head of the Connecticut militia.† (source)
- They were two Wethersfield men returned from Massachusetts with the detachment of militia.† (source)
- The local militia leaders weren't alerted.† (source)
- A young militia soldier was checking tickets at the bus door.† (source)
- I wound up next to a militia boy from Connecticut.† (source)
- Is the militia going to try to stop them?† (source)
- Down in New Haven they're ready to fight, and Windham's already marched their militia to Boston.† (source)
- Colonel Read had been head of a whole regiment of militia, but he'd quit the job.† (source)
- Minutes after the turnover, Aidid's militia ambushed and killed the seven Nigerians.† (source)
- At 0500 the next day, Aidid's militia fired more artillery at the Port of Mogadishu checkpoint.† (source)
- Aidid's militia fired a 106 mm recoilless rifle, blasting the lead Pakistani tank into flames.† (source)
- Aidid's militia had mistaken the CNN's crew for us.† (source)
- If we capture Atto, we cut off the financial support for Aidid's militia.† (source)
- That night, Aidid's militia used an RPG to shoot down one of the QRF helicopters.† (source)
- Aidid's militia chose the wrong convoy to fire on that morning.† (source)
- Militia appeared in the neighborhood, shooting up at the helicopters.† (source)
- I shot militia coming at us from the side streets.† (source)
- Our target was one of Aidid's militia headquarters.† (source)
- I picked up the radio mike and vectored helo fire to the source of Aidid's militia.† (source)
- A Hutu militia group called FNL, a branch of PALIPEHUTU, had waylaid it.† (source)
- He said slowly, "General Hill reports only militia."† (source)
- This culture of brutality spread from militia to militia, from tribe to tribe.† (source)
- To place any dependence upon militia is, assuredly, resting on a broken staff.† (source)
- The militia would fight for their common liberties.† (source)
- So, what good is a militia if the attack comes at night?† (source)
- Entire Connecticut militia units were departing en masse, saying they had had enough.† (source)
- They worked for a Mafia leader, Arkan, who was running some sort of private fascist militia.† (source)
- To place any dependence on militia is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.† (source)
- Militia members killed her sister but finally let Claudine go.† (source)
- All members of the militia must have the same organization and discipline to get the best results.† (source)
- General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.† (source)
- Zacharie had been the militia's main target.† (source)
- Captain Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia had made a wild, forty-mile ride through the night.† (source)
- As it was, New Jersey militia were not turning out in any numbers that could make a difference.† (source)
- The other had died when rebel militia had attacked his high school.† (source)
- The militia of Pennsylvania seem to be actuated with a spirit more than Roman.† (source)
- Could she have been successful using the militia alone?† (source)
- Large numbers of militia members came to the house, patiently lining up to rape the women.† (source)
- Trade, taxes, and the militia are the important subjects of federal legislation.† (source)
- As she was walking home, five Hutu militia members surrounded her.† (source)
- Riders galloped off to Connecticut and New Jersey to spread the news and "hurry on the militia."† (source)
- And she managed their escape, the day when some neighbors warned them that militia were coming.† (source)
- Since the escape fromBrooklyn Heights, militia had been deserting in droves.† (source)
- Even if they could be forced, frequently calling up the militia would be expensive.† (source)
- There was no way of knowing how many militia were there.† (source)
- Something like two dozen proxy armies and militias were still fighting in the Congo.† (source)
- Regulating and calling forth the militia has already been discussed and justified.† (source)
- The comments on taxation apply to the militia.† (source)
- There will be a large body of citizens who are members of the militia.† (source)
- Congress must first call the militia into service.† (source)
- The President will only occasionally command the nation's militia.† (source)
- We don't know how the national government will regulate the militia.† (source)
- Within States, Militia Discipline Uniform† (source)
- Continuing this assumption, would the militia support the confederate authority?† (source)
- Number 29: Militia Not Threat to Liberty† (source)
- The militia's valor during the recent war erected eternal monuments to their fame.† (source)
- Local governments would lead the militia.† (source)
- With a clear plan, a trained militia will be ready whenever the defense of the States requires it.† (source)
- The States need a force other than the militia during severe problems.† (source)
- And the militia would be ready to serve.† (source)
- But the militia would become irritated, march to the seat of the tyrant, and crush him.† (source)
- A small revolt in part of a State can be suppressed by the militia from other parts of the State.† (source)
- However, if it can't use the militia, it will have to use the army.† (source)
- And uniformity requires national regulation of the militia.† (source)
- This should remove our fears about a militia under the federal government.† (source)
- Spending the time and money to train the entire militia would injure labor and industry.† (source)
- Using militia members is impractical and dangerous.† (source)
- However, we should adopt a well-formed plan to create a militia as soon as possible.† (source)
- And the militia would be loyal to the State governments.† (source)
- If a tyrant were going to use the army to take over the country, why would he need a militia?† (source)
- And the people are attached to the State governments, which appoint the militia officers.† (source)
- Occasionally, the forts must get more military personnel either militia or federal army soldiers.† (source)
- It would be impossible to train the entire militia of the United States.† (source)
- We are told to fear the militia, if the federal government regulates it.† (source)
- The nation will be more secure if the Union directs the militia.† (source)
- It only needs a force large enough to hold invaders at bay until the militia can be raised.† (source)
- A disciplined militia is the natural defense of a free country.† (source)
- If the federal government can command the militia during emergencies, it won't use the army.† (source)
- The governor of New York can only command the militia and navy.† (source)
- The national government won't have any reason to keep a standing army if it controls the militia.† (source)
- Therefore, it should regulate the militia.† (source)
- The idea that the militia will endanger liberty is far-fetched.† (source)
- Mounted militia and Cossacks were stationed in the village for the occasion.† (source)
- He talked about the need for money for overcoats for the militia.† (source)
- DRUMMOND Ben, I am resigning my commission in the State Militia.† (source)
- Wait, wait, 120,000 militia and — SONG.† (source)
- By the time it became known that the militia were in the village it was already dark.† (source)
- He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none.† (source)
- Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison.† (source)
- The rabidly anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (the city had been named for his father) had been steadily building his militia, the Mahdi Army (known in Arabic as the Jaish al-Mahdi).† (source)
- Across the tribal areas people were angry and many joined militant groups or formed lashkars, local militias.† (source)
- Mobutu's own army allied with Hutus in those camps, a move that led a broad coalition of Tutsis and other ethnic groups in eastern Zaire to form their own militia and join forces with the governments of Rwanda and Uganda against Mobutu.† (source)
- William was a member of the militia in Hartford, and John had sent word that he must care for two of Dr. Bulkeley's patients while the doctor attended the session.† (source)
- Some may have doubted the wisdom of confronting a trained, professional army with a homegrown militia.† (source)
- Kacanik was one of many towns in southern Kosovo that became battlegrounds in the 1990s in the struggle between the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army of Slobodan Milosevic, which was trying to assert Serbian control over the mostly Albanian-inhabited region, and the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnically Albanian militia that was fighting for independence against Milosevic's iron rule.† (source)
- They were followed by a rough-looking militia unit that was trailed by a group of slaves carrying shovels and pickaxes.† (source)
- Mariam heard of women who were killing themselves out of fear of being raped, and of men who, in the name of honor, would kill their wives or daughters if they'd been raped by the militia.† (source)
- John has enlisted in the militia.† (source)
- When he came upon a town, he would have known exactly whose door to knock on, who the local militia leader was, who the key players in town were.† (source)
- His incitement to ethnic violence worked and his force grew, in no small part because of boys—some of them orphans whose parents had been killed by Doe, some of them kidnapped from their families by Taylor's own militias—that he armed and drugged into a killing frenzy.† (source)
- Everyone else in New York flowed north and fought against my progress: Continental troops in ragged formation, militia units carrying packs and haversacks, small artillery pieces pulled by horses, and carts weighed down with women and children.† (source)
- As the alarm spread that morning, their numbers were steadily swelled by groups of militia from the surrounding towns.† (source)
- Captain Betts was in the Rebel militia.† (source)
- On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way.† (source)
- I came up here to warn the militia.† (source)
- Dawes did not awaken the town fathers or militia commanders in the towns of Roxbury, Brookline, Watertown, or Waltham.† (source)
- And of course Sam wasn't the only one from Redding who'd joined the militia; there were others, and every once in a while you'd hear about this one or that one having been in a battle and maybe having been killed or wounded.† (source)
- Finally the British came upon Lexington Common and the two sides met face-to-face: several hundred British soldiers confronting less than a hundred militia.† (source)
- Similarly, after Paul Revere had passed on his news, you can imagine that all of the men in the militia movement gathered around and made plans to confront the British the following morning.† (source)
- In Concord that day, the British were confronted and soundly beaten by the colonial militia, and from that exchange came the war known as the American Revolution.† (source)
- In December of that year, the group learned that the British intended to seize a cache of ammunition being stored by a colonial militia near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, fifty miles north of Boston.† (source)
- When the British moved on to Concord, to systematically search for the cache of guns and ammunition they had been told was stored there, they would clash with the militia again, and this time they would be soundly defeated.† (source)
- Revere and his close friend Joseph Warren became more and more convinced that the British were about to make the major move that had long been rumored — to march to the town of Lexington, northwest of Boston, to arrest the colonial leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and then on to the town of Concord to seize the stores of guns and ammunition that some of the local colonial militia had stored there.† (source)
- Many of his militia would be pumped up on khat at this time of day, not coming down off their high until late in the evening.† (source)
- Enemy militia shot at the helicopters.† (source)
- When the UN confiscated weapons from the militia, the Italian military gave them to Giancarlo, who is suspected to have sold them to Aidid.† (source)
- During the night, Aidid's militia fired on one of our helicopters, using the abandoned Somali National University as their sniper hide.† (source)
- Aidid's militia also launched mortars on the Nigerian checkpoint at the Port of Mogadishu—turned over by the Italians.† (source)
- In the meantime, al Qaeda taught Aidid's militia to change the detonators on their RPGs from impact detonators to timed detonators.† (source)
- I didn't know that a mile west of the target, militia gathered at the Bakara Market, distributing smuggled weapons and ammo.† (source)
- Sourpuss woke me up at 1100 to tell me that our assets were reporting that Aidid's militia was closing in on us.† (source)
- His militia merely had to find out where the Italians had their checkpoints in order to move freely—right into the backyard of the United States and everyone else.† (source)
- Even when Aidid's militia got its butt kicked, Radio Mogadishu broadcasted cries of victory, keeping his own people motivated and encouraging other Somalis to join his winning team.† (source)
- Atto allegedly used income from drug trafficking (mostly khat), arms trafficking, looting, and kidnapping to buy more weapons and support for Aidid's militia.† (source)
- Furthermore, assets informed us that the Italians continued to allow Aidid's armed militia to cross UN military checkpoints responsible for safeguarding the city.† (source)
- Not too many people knew about al Qaeda then, but they supplied Aidid with weapons and trained his militia in urban warfare tactics like setting up burning barricades and fighting street to street.† (source)
- When the international community sent food, particularly the UN under Operation Restore Hope, Aidid's militia stole much of it—extorting or killing people who wouldn't cooperate—and traded the food with other countries for weapons.† (source)
- Adams's youngest brother, Elihu, a captain of militia, camped beside the Charles River at Cambridge, was stricken and died, leaving a wife and three children.† (source)
- The jailer, Stanton Pendelton, a state militia officer who insisted on being called "Colonel Pendelton," was a perpetually grumpy man with a limp that seemed to grow more pronounced with stormy weather or his own personal level of aggravation.† (source)
- What the Government did do, from its comfortable situation far, far to the east, was to express sympathy in encouraging phrases, and suggest the formation of a local militia: a suggestion which, as all able-bodied males had as a matter of course been members of a kind of unofficial militia since frontier days, was felt to amount to disregard of the situation.† (source)
- The militia of Bryn Shander could defeat the combined forces of any five of the other nine towns combined, and Cassius's officers held a monopoly on connections to the necessary marketplace in the south.† (source)
- Finn had sent word through his militia that Tycho Under must be evacuated; Prof had repeated it over video.† (source)
- And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.† (source)
- Armed forces—Brody's gunners, Finn's militia, Stilyagi Air Corps—stayed on blue alert throughout period.† (source)
- Rotate guards from Finn's militia above each warren starting when and if cruisers passed around Luna into blind space, Farside—not get caught flat-footed again.† (source)
- But it started out as a minor scrap with a few militia and the next thing I know I'm tangling with half the Union army.† (source)
- Oh, minor problems—start compressing city's air while evacuating people, so as to save it; decompress fully at end to minimize damage; move as much food as was time for; cofferdam accesses to lower farm tunnels; so forth—all things we knew how to do and with stilyagi and militia and municipal maintenance people had organization to do.† (source)
- I thought it was only a few militia.† (source)
- As another soldier remembered, there was scarcely a militia man who did not think himself equal to two or three of the British.† (source)
- When Kagame's army defeated the genocidaires, the Hutu militia fled to Congo—but took Claudine and her sister along as well.† (source)
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