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.

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.

#: This act established that the chief of the Militia Bureau ( later the National Guard Bureau ) would be a National Guard officer, that National Guard officers would be assigned to the general staff and that the divisions, as used by the Guard in World War I, would be reorganized.

MBP also had control over 41, 000 soldiers of the Internal Security Corps, 57, 500 officers of the Citizens ' Militia, 32, 000 officers of Border Troops and 10, 000 Prison Guard and also 125, 000 members of the Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia.

Militia under the authority of United States Army officers rounded them up and in September 1838, the band of 859 headed west, in what became known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death.

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This brigade was composed of four battalions from the smaller states, and would have been a natural assignment for a regular officer had Prime Minister Robert Menzies not restricted appoints to senior posts to Militia officers, few of whom had much experience of the Army outside their home states.

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But it was Edward Gibbon, with whom he was closely associated when they both were officers in the South Hampshire Militia, who suggested to Mitford the form which his work should take.

Of the severely wounded prisoners, 30 soon died, so by the time a full report on the prisoners was issued on 15 October, there were 19 officers and 417 enlisted men of the U. S. regulars and 54 officers and 435 other ranks of the New York Militia.

For example, Militia officers Chewitt and Allan, the Reverend Strachan and others wrote to Governor General Prevost on May 8, that Sheaffe " kept too far from his troops after retreating from the woods, never cheered or animated them, nor showed by his personal conduct that he was hearty in the cause.

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.

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* 22 April 1913 – Agents of the Iron Heel murder the officers of the Kansas Militia, resulting in open mutiny.

Justices of the Peace and officers of Militia are removed from office: Mr. Papineau among them.

A controversial decision of the Menzies government was that senior commands in Blamey's 6th Division would be restricted to Militia officers.

After the war with Japan began, large numbers of experienced AIF officers were posted to Militia units.

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.

The earliest date of organization shown is November 28, 1879 four months after Militia General Order 18 of July 25, 1879 allowed the formations of 74 " Associations for Drill in Educational Institutions " for young men.

Vidali, identified as " Carlos, one of the first Commanders of the 5th Regiment the Republican Militia " was shown addressing an assembly of military personnel in the 1937 pro-Republican propaganda film The Spanish Earth.

At some date not shown in the references, possibly coincident with his appointment as " major general of cadets ," he was appointed a major general in the Virginia Militia.

Further pressure in the early 1850s from Britain for removing their forces prompted pleas for them to remain as the Militia were deemed insufficient for the purpose.

In former times all families with two or more adult male members were required to enroll half of them in the Company of Uniformed Militia.

" Congress is also empowered to come up with the guidelines " for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress " ( clause 16 ).

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

Militia under Colonel Henry Dodge caught up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights.

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

In 1678, Charles II withheld his Assent from a bill " for preserving the Peace of the Kingdom by raising the Militia, and continuing them in Duty for Two and Forty Days ," suggesting that he, not Parliament, should control the militia.

The Militia Act 1802 provided for the appointment of lieutenants to " Lieutenants for the Counties, Ridings, and Places " in England and Wales, and gave them command of the county militia.

Militia Captain Archibald Hamilton guided them to a firing position in the courtyard of his own house.

They caught the British and Canadian units there ( the light company of the 1st Battalion of the 8th ( King's ) Regiment and the Upper Canada Incorporated Militia Battalion ) while they were redeploying and unaware of the American presence, and drove them back in confusion.

Captain Daly, leading the light company of the 3rd Select Embodied Militia, launched an immediate attack against the Americans, while other Canadian troops engaged them from across the river.

At Opepe, just short of Taupo, they ran into a small party of Militia, who mistook them for their Māori allies: a costly mistake as nine of them were killed with no loss to Te Kooti.

Rather than 38, 000 unprepared militia, it stated that there was a Militia Army of circa 66, 615 militiamen and volunteers " quite equal in all these respects to any force the United States can bring against them.

* 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.

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

* Militia Ordinance agreed by Lords and Commons 5 March 1642

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.

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

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.

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.