How to use in-sentence of “militia”:
+ In 1774 Baldwin enlisted in a regiment, and commanded the Woburn militia at the Battle of Lexington and Concord as a major.
+ Qasim Razvi was the leader of a local militia in India, the Razakars of Hyderabad State, who blocked accession into the Republic of India after the Partition of British Indian empire against the wishes of the local majority Hindu-population, and fought against the Indian forces during occupation.
+ Hartwell, the 54th unsuccessfully attacked entrenched Confederate militia at the November 1864 Battle of Honey Hill.
+ In October 21 to October 28 1920 a confrontation between Kim Jwa-jin and Hong Pom-do, Lee Pom-seoks 4,000 Korean independence militia and some Japanese suppression regiment about 30,000 peoples.
+ Arnold began the war when he was elected as a captain in Connecticut’s militia in March 1775.
+ The alternatives for conscription are militia system, as in Switzerland, or professional army made up from volunteers.
+ Washington always wanted to be a soldier and was active in the colonial militia of Virginia.
Example sentences of “militia”:
+ Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north.
+ During the Bay of Pigs Invasion, on 19 April 1961, he commanded a battalion of about 200 police and militia moving south towards Giron, that was attacked by Brigade B-26s.
+ Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north.
+ During the Bay of Pigs Invasion, on 19 April 1961, he commanded a battalion of about 200 police and militia moving south towards Giron, that was attacked by Brigade B-26s.
+ He was commissioned to raise a militia company to fight in the French and Indian War, and he served the King as captain Captain in this unit on the northern frontier.
+ Then the soldiers and militia would search, inch by inch, to find anyone who might still be hiding.
+ He asked the Kansas militia to come and keep the peace.
+ Colonies had militia laws that required every able-bodied white man to be available for militia duty and to provide his own arms.
+ In 1874, in response to Native Americans in the United StatesNative raids in the region, residents and the state militia constructed a stockade.
+ Within a few hours after the Presidents’ deaths, military leaders in Rwanda’s different provinces called together militia and civilians.
+ He served as a captain in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War, a war with Native American tribes.
+ The Blackshirt militia maintained an independent “Marine Group” with four MVSN battalions.
More in-sentence examples of “militia”:
+ However, on May 10, Lyon marched some 6,500 Union troops to surround the militia and arrest all of them.
+ In 1975, Pahor and Rebula published a book interview entitled “Edvard Kocbek: Pričevalec našega časa in which Rebula condemned the summary killings of 12,000 members of Slovene anti-communist militia in May and June 1945.
+ The suspects were tied to a far-right militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen.
+ Henry DeWitt Hamilton was the Adjutant General of the New York State Militia starting in 1912.
+ A militia is a group of people not in the military who do many things that the military does.
+ Congress soon changed the militia law to allow the President to call up more men to serve for longer periods of time.
+ President Lincoln’s 75,000 volunteers were the militia of the loyal U.S.
+ Vermont would not allow its militia to serve outside of state borders.
+ The Jayhawkers were Free-Staterfree-state militia groups known for attacking plantations in the pro-slavery western counties of Missouri.
+ Then the militia were allowed to go in and kill everybody inside.
+ There were militia all over the country.
+ During those days, the regular Army then called the Liberian Frontier Force, used to combine with units of the national militia to have joint parade on special occasions, such as Independence Day, Inauguration Day, etc.
+ The Green Mountain Boys were the militia and only military force of Vermont.
+ Legentilhomme also had three batteries of field guns, four batteries of anti-aircraft guns, a company of 16 light Renault R35 tanks, four companies of militia and irregulars, two platoons of camel corps, and an assortment of 18 aircraft.
+ He was a student activist, and on 6 October 1976 he and other leftist students gathered after an overnight protest at Thammasat, police commandos and right-wing militia members stormed the campus and butchered scores of students.
+ Rosbrugh’s company joined the rest of the Northampton county militia in camp.
+ One common definition of a militia includes all men who are able to serve as soldiers.
+ The Saharawi group Polisario maintains an active militia of an estimated 5,000 fighters in Western Sahara and has engaged in intermittent warfare with Moroccan forces since the 1970s.
+ About 75 miles to the southwest of Springfield, the pro-south militia were camped.
+ Afterward, he served in a militia and as governor of the Missouri Territory.
+ Arnold, David Wooster, and Connecticut militia General Gold Selleck Silliman led the militia to stop them.
+ The militia was lead by Major General Ethan Allen, who was born in Vermont and was in the military from 1757.
+ For several months, militia death squads went through villages capturing suspects and taking them away.
+ He served in the militia during the War of 1812 and became colonel in 1830.
+ The CIA later stated they were trying to get local Libyan militia to go help the consulate.
+ From 1815 until 1845, many of the Northern states did not require militia service by their citizens.
+ On April 18 to 19, 1775, two militia companies from Framingham, totaling about 130 men, fought in the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
+ The Irish Republican Army was formed from the joining of a part of the Irish Brotherhood with the Trade unionunion’s Irish Citizens Army militia after the Easter Rising of 1916.
+ The Impuzamugambi was a militia that was created in Rwanda in 1992.
+ Breckinridge’s command consisted of approximately 1,000 regular troops with another 500 militia reserves.
+ During the Bay of Pigs Invasion on 17 April 1961, he was director of militia training and based at Managua near Havana.
+ The militia did not have enough gun powder to fight them.
+ When a Connecticut militia force arrived at Ticonderoga in June, he had a dispute with its commander over control of the fort, and resigned his Massachusetts commission.
+ The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Janjaweed militia group and the tribes of the region.
+ Taking the regular troops with him, Breckinridge left Colonel Robert Preston in charge of the 500 militia men to defend the salt works.
+ Both Cordley and Ridenour said some people from the militia were assigned to stay at each blockhouse every night.
+ He called up the state militia to their districts for annual training.
+ In the 1840s, residents in New Zealand started forming militia units.
+ Benjamin McCulloch was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger DivisionTexas Ranger, a Major general in the Texas militia and thereafter a major in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War.
+ During the War of 1812 militia units had the reputation of being poorly trained and poorly disciplined.
+ Just after dawn on April 19, 1775, the British attempted to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts, this beginning the war with the “:en:Shot_heard_round_the_worldShot Heard Round the World.” On July 4, 1776, Founding Fathers wrote the United States Declaration of Independence.
+ He helped organize militia forces on British-held islands, receiving praise from the landowners for his efforts on their behalf.
+ Therefore, the South reorganized the old militia system.
+ This militia was not part of the “regular” army.
+ Corydon sent a mounted militia company company nicknamed the Yellow Jackets Yellow Jackets to support the US army in the War of 1812.
+ One militia group was assigned to stay at each blockhouse.
+ He sent his militia to take the arsenal before the Union Army could send enough troops to hold it.
+ Jackson and most of his militia retreated to the southwest corner of Missouri, close to Confederate help from Arkansas.
+ By the 1840s, with no state laws requiring militia service in many states, the militias were replaced by voluneteer groups who served on weekends and provided their own weapons.
+ He was the Adjutant General of the New York State Militia starting in 1912.
+ However, on May 10, Lyon marched some 6,500 Union troops to surround the militia and arrest all of them.
+ In 1975, Pahor and Rebula published a book interview entitled "Edvard Kocbek: Pričevalec našega časa in which Rebula condemned the summary killings of 12,000 members of Slovene anti-communist militia in May and June 1945.
+ The suspects were tied to a far-right militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen.