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But each town in the colonies had a militia — a small group of volunteer fighters. (source)militia = civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army
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Governor Treat will be appointed Colonel of Militia.† (source)
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Minutes after the turnover, Aidid's militia ambushed and killed the seven Nigerians.† (source)
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Wait, wait, 120,000 militia and — SONG.† (source)
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Most of them just look like indolent Third World militia the world over.† (source)
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They also had to help the khans form a militia by providing an armed man for every small plot of land.† (source)
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Two Pakistani militia approached our dilapidated Land Cruiser, took a cursory glance inside, and waved us on.† (source)
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Native Taliban forces mingle with foreign al Qaeda fighters, while mujahedeen militias also operate in the region.† (source)
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Volunteer militia under Colonel John Chivington came to kill us—we were mostly women, children, and elders.† (source)
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Militias.† (source)
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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)
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Across the tribal areas people were angry and many joined militant groups or formed lashkars, local militias.† (source)
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He was a Maronite, a former member of the Lebanese Forces Christian militia, and a longtime contract employee of the Office.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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