The Yorkist force based at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire ( led by the Earl of Salisbury ) needed to link up with the main Yorkist army at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire.

Arundel initially escaped the invading force in the company of the king, but was later dispatched to his estates in Shropshire to gather troops.

In the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army.

* Aden Protectorate Levies, a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

In addition there was a huge militia force, of limited value, numbering 30, 000 noblemen of the levée en masse.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

Secondly, the Ethiopian army's feudal organization meant that nearly the entire force was composed of peasant militia.

The militia was re-titled the National and Popular Militia in 1974 and its regular section scaled down, as the President announced that the country could not afford the large standing force that he believed was necessary to deter what he saw as the constant threat of invasion.

However, the mulatto rebels refused to arm or free their slaves, or to challenge the status of slavery, and their attack was defeated by a force of white militia and black volunteers ( including Henri Christophe ).

Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he abruptly decided to join the Richmond Grays, a volunteer militia of 1, 500 men travelling to Charles Town for Brown's hanging, to guard against an attempt by abolitionists to rescue Brown from the gallows by force.

By the time the war began, Madison's military force consisted mostly of poorly trained militia members.

As governor he considered using the Virginia militia to force the outcome in favor of Jefferson.

By June 1932 ( the height of its power ), the Red Army had no less than 45, 000 soldiers, with a further 200, 000 local militia acting as a subsidiary force.

The term militia (), or irregular army, is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service.

The word militia dates back to at least 1590 when it was recorded in a book by Sir John Smythe, Certain Discourses Military with the meanings: a military force ; a body of soldiers and military affairs ; a body of military discipline

China's current militia is a mass force engaged in daily production under the leadership of the Communist Party of China ( CCP ), forms part of the Chinese armed forces.

The Resistance militia were opposed by the collaborationist French Militia-the paramilitary police force of the German puppet state of Vichy.

Neither the Russian Empire, nor the Soviet Union ever had an organised force that could be equated to a militia.

The term Militsiya in Russia and former Communist Block nations was specifically used to refer to the civilian police force, and should not be confused with the conventional western definition of militia.

In 1861 the Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers were raised as a militia, but soon became a military reserve force.

Switzerland long maintained, proportionally, the second largest military force in the world, with about half the proportional amount of reserve forces of the Israeli Defense Forces, a militia of some 33 % of the total population.

Although muster rolls were prepared as late as 1820, the element of compulsion was abandoned, and the militia was transformed into a volunteer force.

Until 1861 the militia were an entirely infantry force, but in that year a number of county regiments were converted to artillery.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

During King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ), a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth militia under General Josiah Winslow invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in what is now South Kingstown, Rhode Island, on December 19, 1675.

Uniquely in Europe, these horsemen comprised a militia cavalry force with no feudal links, being under the sole control of the king or the count of Castile because of the " charters " ( or fueros ).

In 1971 the army's force consisted of the 1st Groupement at Kananga, with one guard battalion, two infantry battalions, and a gendarmerie battalion attached, and the 2nd Groupement ( Kinshasa ), the 3rd Groupement ( Kisangani ), the 4th Groupement ( Lubumbashi ), the 5th Groupement ( Bukavu ), the 6th Groupement ( Mbandaka ), and the 7th Groupement ( Boma ).

In 1895, a battalion, formed by the First and Second Foreign Regiments, was sent to the Kingdom of Madagascar, as part of an expeditionary force whose mission was to conquer the island.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Following Operation Desert Strike in 1996, Kuwait agreed to a United States battalion task force to be permanently stationed in Kuwait.

The IISS estimates that it consists of a total force of 9-10, 000, with 7 infantry battalions, 3 Special Forces battalions, 2-3 batteries of artillery, 2 battalions of engineers, and one logistics battalion.

* Slovenia's 10th battalion for international cooperation, established in 1996 as its primary " out-of-country " operation unit, will soon be upgraded to a NATO-interoperable rapid reaction peacekeeping force ;

** United Arab Emirates Marines-The UAE maintains a small battalion sized marine force called the UAE Marines.

It dispatched an infantry battalion to the United Nations force in Somalia in 1993, it sent the 35th Mechanized Infantry Battalion to Kosovo, and sent a regiment to Kuwait during the Iraq War.

The army is organized into eight armored brigades, 16 infantry brigades, six mechanized brigades, two airborne commando brigades, one surface-to-surface missile brigade, three artillery brigades, one central guard force, one Special Forces brigade, and six air defense brigades, which consist of four antiaircraft artillery battalions and one surface-to-air missile battalion.

With supporting fire from the heavy weapons of M / 16, tanks and destroyers, this force eliminated WN-60, which defended the draw at F-1 ; by 09: 00, the 3rd battalion 16th RCT was moving inland.

Fearing that France would blockade Texan ports as well, a battalion of men of the Republic of Texas force began patrolling Corpus Christi Bay to stop Mexican smugglers.

One battalion of five hundred men, under Johnson's elder brother, James Johnson, engaged the British force of eight hundred regulars ; simultaneously, Richard Johnson, with the other, now somewhat smaller battalion, attacked the fifteen hundred Indians led by Tecumseh.

The refusal of an extra battalion reduced the size of his force by at least a sixth, and rejecting the firepower offered by the Gatling guns played into the events of June 25 to the disadvantage of his regiment.

Cavalry from the second battalion, Eleventh Missouri State Militia, a pro-Union force, engaged a small number of Confederate troops under Colonel Joseph C. Porter.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

Murray's 3, 886-man force consisted of ten regular battalions, a converged light infantry battalion, and two companies of rangers.

Some German units followed them across the railway and an SS battalion reached Wolfheze where it was strafed by its own air force.

Due to the combined nature of the Canadian Forces, however, it is not impossible for an air force Chief Warrant Officer or a naval Chief Petty Officer 1st Class ( CPO1 ) to rise to that post, especially in units with a high number of support trades personnel ; examples might include a Logistics Branch CPO1 being appointed RSM of a service battalion, or an air force Communications and Electronics Branch CWO appointed to the position in a Communication Regiment.

Campbell immediately prepared a study for Clagett recommending 24-hour operations and modern aircraft detection equipment, specifically two mobile SCR-270B units and nine SCR-271s, allotting eight units to Luzon and three to Mindanao, and expanding the force to a 915-man battalion.