Bulgarian militia men from the region of Macedonia, ca.

The right wing was composed of men of arms and militia parish of Burgundy, Champagne and Picardy covered by the mounted sergeants from Soissons.

During the last battle of N ' Djamena gunships and tanks have been put to good use, pushing armed militia forces back from the Presidential palace.

After the mutinies, President Patassé suffered from a typical " dictator ’ s paranoia ", resulting in a period of cruel terror executed by the presidential guard and various militia within the FACA loyal to the president, such as the Karako.

Delaware is notable for being the only slave state from which no Confederate regiments or militia groups were assembled.

Plans to form a Landsturm national militia in Eastern Germany as a last resort to boost fighting strength initially came from Oberkommando des Heeres chief General Heinz Guderian in 1944.

Such leftist reforms damaged U. S. economic interests in the country, gaining hostility from the U. S .' s governing Reagan administration, who funded a right wing militia, the Contras, to overthrow Ortega's government.

In late April, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, Allen received a message from members of an irregular Connecticut militia that they were planning to capture Fort Ticonderoga, requesting his assistance in the effort.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.

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.

Perhaps even more serious, he clashed with powerful state governors who used states ' rights arguments to withhold their militia units from national service and otherwise blocked mobilization plans.

Stuart volunteered to be aide-de-camp to Col. Robert E. Lee and accompanied Lee with a company of U. S. Marines from the Washington Navy Yard and four companies of Maryland militia.

President Bashir Gemayel agreed to send troops from his Phalange militia into camps to clear out 2, 000 PLO fighters.

The Shi ' a Muslim Amal militia sought to rout the Palestinians from Lebanese strongholds.

In the late 1980s, Charles Taylor assembled rebels from Gio and Mano tribes in Ivory Coast into a militia, invaded Nimba County in 1989, and by 1990 a full-blown tribal war was taking place.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

The Einwohnerwehr, active in Germany from 1919 to 1921 as a paramilitary citizens ' militia consisting of hundreds of thousands of mostly former servicemen.

The Basij militia founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 is composed of 10, 000 regular soldiers, and ultimately draws from about 11 million members, and is subordinate to their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

) The militia could not be compelled to serve overseas, but it was seen as a training reserve for the army, as bounties were offered to men who opted to ' exchange ' from the militia to the regular army.

In the late Seventeenth century came calls for the resurrection of militia in Scotland that had the understated aim of protecting the rights of Scots from English oppression.

The history of militia in the United States dates from the colonial era, such as in the American Revolutionary War.

The Tutsi militia was soon joined by various opposition groups and supported by several countries, including Rwanda and Uganda.

In 1907 Gardner returned to Britain for several months ' leave, spending time with his family and joining the Legion of Frontiersmen, a militia founded to repel the threat of German invasion.

The court's opinion made explicit, in its obiter dicta, that the term " militia ", as used in colonial times in this originalist decision, included both the federally-organized militia and the citizen-organized militias of the several States: "... the ' militia ' in colonial America consisted of a subset of ' the people '— those who were male, able-bodied, and within a certain age range " ( 7 ) ...

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

Grim 31 engaged the column, resulting in the death of Harriman and wounding several Afghan militia and U. S. special forces.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

On October 3, 1993, by the order of President Bill Clinton, a force of United States Army Rangers and Delta Force operators set out to capture several officials of Aidid's militia in an area of the Somali capital city of Mogadishu, controlled by him.

Following the restoration of the monarchy, in 1663 the non-conformist Reverend John Norman, vicar from 1647 to 1660, was one of several ' religious fanatics ' confined to their homes by Lord Stawell's militia.

In the winter of 1775 and 1776, the Rhode Island Legislature put militia General William West in charge of rooting out loyalists in Newport, and several notable individuals such as Joseph Wanton and Thomas Vernon were exiled to the northern part of the state.

) As governor, he presided over several Virginia militia expeditions against the Cherokee people in the west, who were allied with the British.

The county raised several militia units that would fight in the American Revolution.

After several months of forced marches, feints, and pitched skirmishes by combined Arizona territorial militia and US Army Cavalry, Crook forced the Yavapai bands into a single decisive battle.

In 1912, Georgia governor, Joseph M. Brown, sent four companies of state militia to Cumming to prevent riots after several rapes of young white women by African-American men.

During the War of 1812, several Worthington militia marched north with General William Hull's army and were surrendered at Detroit on August 12, 1812.

And French journalist Richard Labeviere said, referring to the later 1990s, " The CIA and Unocal's security forces ... provided military weapons and instructors to several Taleban militia ..."

Riflemen trained for these militias would receive eight weeks basic training, then serve several months in their militia.

His force included 3 regiments of regulars, several companies of Canadian militia, and numerous Indians.

Local militia or ARVN forces, supported by the National Police, usually drove the attackers out within two or three days, sometimes within hours ; but heavy fighting continued several days longer in Kontum, Buôn Ma Thuột, Phan Thiết, Cần Thơ, and Bến Tre.

In several incidents in 1780, Lynch and several other militia officers and justices of the peace rounded up suspects who were thought to be a part of a Loyalist uprising in southwestern Virginia.

Al-Sadr, who had previously created his own parallel government and a militia called the al-Mahdi Army, instructed his followers to no longer follow along with the occupation, and suggested that they attack Coalition soldiers, and his followers took control of several southern cities, often with the support of local authorities and police.