December 1641 Parliament asserted that it wanted control over the appointment of the commanders of the Army and Navy in the Militia Ordinance.

The Militia Ordinance was passed on 5 March by Parliament which gave Parliament control of the local militia called Trained Bands.

In response to the Militia Ordinance, Charles revived the Commissions of Array as a means of summoning an army instead.

* Parliament decreed that Parliamentary Ordinances were valid without royal assent following the King's refusal to assent to the Militia Ordinance 15 March 1642

On 25 March 1845 the Militia Ordinance was passed into law.

On 28 October 1846, with the passing of the Armed Constabulary Ordinance in 1846, a fresh call was made by Mr Donnelly of the Legislature to do away with the Militia because of its expense.

Parliament revised and expanded the Militia Ordinance, replacing it with the Militia Act 1858.

Parliament enacted a Militia Ordinance, by which it claimed authority over the country's trained bands, while from his temporary capital of York, Charles rejected Parliament's Nineteen Propositions and issued Commissions of Array, directing the Lord Lieutenant of each county to raise forces for the King.

When the English Civil War began, Hampden was appointed a member of the committee for safety, levied a regiment of Buckinghamshire men for the parliamentary cause, and in his capacity of deputy-lieutenant carried out the parliamentary Militia Ordinance in the county.

Northumberland subsequently voted in favour of the Militia Ordinance.

* 5 March, the Long Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance

* 15 March, the Long Parliament proclaims that " the People are bound by the Ordinance for the Militia, though it has not received the Royal Assent "

Parliament claimed to be justified by its own recent " Militia Ordinance ", while the king claimed the old-fashioned " Commissions of Array ".

Though obsolete by the 17th century, the system was revived by Charles I in 1642 ( in opposition to the 1641 Militia Ordinance that gave Parliament control of raising troops ) in order to muster a Royalist army at the onset of the English Civil War.

Sassou Nguesso proclaimed himself President on October 25, 1997, but Militia forces loyal to Lissouba continued a guerrilla war, the vital Congo-Ocean Railway from the coastal city of Pointe-Noire was cut, and Brazzaville was heavily damaged before a cease-fire was agreed in December 1999.

In 1920, the Militia Bureau and the Army Air Service agreed on a plan for re-organizing National Guard aviation units.

The Army of Burkina Faso ( L ' Armée de Terre-Ground Forces or LAT ) is a skeletonized force structure of some 5, 800-6, 000 officers and men, augmented by a conscript force or People's Militia of some 45, 000 men and women.

* 1787 – Militia led by General

* 1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon-an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.

Gaddafi contended that it was the People's Militia that met the Egyptian incursions during the border clash of 1977, although the Egyptians insisted that their successful raids had been contested by regular army units.

The information above about the People's Militia is dated circa 1987 ; it is not clear whether the force still existed by the time of the 2011 civil war.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

* 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.

CMF units were sometimes scorned by AIF soldiers as " chocolate soldiers " or " chockos ", because " they would melt under the pressure " of military operations ; or in an alternative version of the story of the origin of this term, as a result of the 1930s ' uniforms of Militia soldiers, these soldiers were considered by AIF volunteers and some civilians as soldiers only for show like the soldiers in garish 19th century dress uniforms shown on tins of chocolates that were commonly sold in Australia in the 1930s, hence the name " chocolate-tin soldiers " for Militia members.

Within the armed forces, establishing the Bolivarian Militia, as a special, organized by the Venezuelan State to realize the principle of shared responsibility and has as main objective, to interact with society as a whole, for the implementation of the overall defense of the Nation.

However, the Swiss Militia continues to consist of most of the adult male population ( with voluntary participation by women ) required to keep an assault rifle at home and to periodically engage in combat and marksmanship training.

This was resented by some and the Militia Club, soon to become the Poker Club, was formed to promote the raising of a Scottish militia.

The Militia Clauses gave Congress authority for " organizing, arming, and disciplining " the militia, and " governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States ", with the States retaining authority to appoint officers and to impose the training specified by Congress.

* The Rise and Decline of the American Militia System, by James B. Whisker, Susquehanna University Press ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-945636-92-X

In the initial Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Odo is succeeded as security chief by Ro Laren, who is working for the Bajoran Militia.

The component parts of the military ( other than the purely historical Crossbow Corps ) are distinguished ( as in many nations ) by distinctive cap badges, one each for the Fortress Guard ( uniformed ), Fortress Guard ( artillery ), Guard of the Council, Uniformed Militia, Military Ensemble ( band ), and Gendarmerie.

A box labeled " Toledo, MI " that may have been used by the Michigan Militia during the Toledo War.

Though it has been argued that the states lost the power to arm their citizens when the power to arm the militia was transferred from the states to the federal government by Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the individual right to arm was retained and strengthened by the Militia Act of 1792 and the similar act of 1795.

In 1844 a Select Committee of the House of Commons had recommended that a Militia, composed of both settlers and native Maori, and a permanent native force be set up.

He supported Arthur Haselrig's Militia Bill of 7 December 1641, and on 31 December 1641 he took up to the king the Commons ' demand for a guard under the command of Essex.

He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896.

He resigned as head of the Militia in 1890 when a select committee of the House of Commons criticized him for the misappropriation of furs from a Métis named Charles Bremner during the resistance.

Initially using the Lisbon Militia units plus 5, 000 to 7, 000 hired peasants and later by conscription of all people within 40 miles, supervised by 18 engineering officers and around 150 NCOs and at a cost of just £ 100, 000 the work was completed, just in time.

It was redesignated The 10th Battalion Volunteer Militia ( Infantry ), Canada, on 21 November 1862, the Tenth or " Royal Regiment of Toronto Volunteers " on 10 April 1863, the 10th Battalion " Royal Grenadiers " on 5 August 1881, the 10th Regiment " Royal Grenadiers " on 8 May 1900 and The Royal Grenadiers on 1 May 1920.

Seven batteries of artillery were formed after the passage of the Militia Act of 1855 which allowed Canada to retain a paid military force of 5, 000 men.

Major-General Sir James Howden MacBrien, KCB, CMG, DSO, CStJ ( 30 June 1878 – 5 March 1938 ) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia ( renamed the Canadian Army in 1940 ) from 1920 until 1927.

The detachment of the ( local ) Lincoln Militia who fought at the battle lost 5 officers and 80 other ranks, although only four of these seem to have been killed.

Around May 1, Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, who had been elected on the ticket of the ( Unionist ) Douglas faction of the Democratic party, but privately supported secession, called out the Missouri Volunteer Militia for " maneuvers " about 4. 5 miles northwest of the arsenal at Lindell's Grove ( the current campus of St. Louis University on Lindell Boulevard ), then outside the city of St. Louis, at an encampment christened " Camp Jackson " by the militiamen

The Militia 3rd Battalion had set off on 5 September and the following day the 2 / 1st Pioneer Battalion joined it, while the 2 / 6th Independent Company — under the command of Major Harry Harcourt — was dispatched to Laloki and began patrolling along the Goldie River toward Ioribaiwa.