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.

Poster for the WPA stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, October 27, 1936 Written with the goal of hurting Long's chances in the 1936 election, Lewis's novel outfits President Berzelius Windrip with a private militia, concentration camps, and a chief of staff who sounds like Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Col. Harper, of Harpersfield, the well known officer of the frontier militia of New York in the Revolution, informed Judge Knox, of Knoxville, in this co., that the Painted Post was erected over the grave of a chief who was wounded at the battle of the " Hog-Back " and brought in a canoe to the head of the Chemung, where he died.

Only last-minute concessions from political chief José Ángel Navarro prevented a clash between the militia and Ugartechea's soldiers.

He continued to publish dissertations as before, the chief being his De militia romana ( 1595 ) and his Lovanium ( 1605 ), intended as an introduction to a general history of Brabant.

For example, the head of the militia, the chief justice, and the king's attorney would all be councilors.

Pownall was, however, successful in recruiting the province's full quota of militia, and his energetic assistance in the war effort earned him approbation from William Pitt, the Board of Trade, and that year's commander in chief, James Abercrombie.

A mixed force of Mohegan and Connecticut militia captured Canonchet, the chief sachem of the Narragansett, a few days after the destruction of Providence and delivered him to Connecticut authorities.

The chief objects for which Flood strove were the shortening of the duration of parliament which had then no legal limit in Ireland except that of the reigning sovereign's life, the reduction of the scandalously heavy pension list, the establishment of a national militia, and, above all, the complete legislative independence of the Irish parliament.

His chief accomplices allegedly included Slobodan Milošević, other Krajina Serb figures such as Milan Martić, the Serbian militia leader Vojislav Šešelj, and Yugoslav Army commanders including General Ratko Mladić, at the time the commander of JNA forces in Croatia, all of them accused of and some by now convicted for war crimes.

These 40 remaining hostages were held by Nabih Berri, the chief of the Amal militia and the Minister of Justice in the fractured Lebanon cabinet.

He was involved in several massacres in East Timor, and a chief militia leader during the post-independence massacre and destruction of the capital Dili.

Kaminski was appointed the chief major of the Autonomous Administration of Lokot, and brigade commander of the local militia.

The report accused the French government of knowing of preparations for the genocide and helping to train the ethnic Hutu militia members ; it accused 33 senior French military and political officials of involvement in the genocide, including then-President Mitterrand and his then general secretary Hubert Védrine, then-Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, then-Foreign Minister Alain Juppé, and his chief aide at the time, Dominique de Villepin.

In 1671, the Sulpician Order, lords of the Island of Montreal since 1663, granted the area ( now the western part of Verdun ) as a fief to Major Zacharie Dupuis, chief of the Montreal militia.

Two are Highlanders ; the second is a Lowland chief, Duncan Galbraith, who heads the Lennox militia.

La Fayette was elected to the post of commander in chief of the militia on July 15, and it was named the National Guard.

When news of the arrests were heard in San Felipe de Austin, where radical sentiments were taking hold, the political chief Peter Miller authorized Travis to gather a militia for response.

Although he had only a single regiment of regulars and some small detachments of veterans and artillery to support the militia, he was already aware that there was no immediate threat from the disorganised and badly-supplied American forces on the Niagara River, or from the lethargic American commander in chief, Major General Henry Dearborn, at Albany in Upper New York State.

Between September 1944 and early May 1945, he also served as chief inspector of the Slovene Slovenian Home Guard, a Slovene collaborationist anti-Communist militia, although he did not have any military competences until the last month of the war.

The protagonist is the sixth militia chief, but he is shrewder than his predecessors.

Among them is Gonzalve, chief of the Christian militia.

The mindset of the militant Hauhau was revealed by the gruesome killing of the Anglican Reverend Carl Völkner in 1865 at Opotiki which led to reprisals from the colonial militia with confiscation of lands and jailing followed by execution of a local chief and associates, who in more recent times have been accepted as innocent.

" The British county lieutenant system was employed as the population grew and every county had a lieutenant appointed who became the chief militia officer of the county.

During World War II under German occupation, militia usually called the French Resistance emerged to conduct a guerrilla war of attrition against German forces and prepare the way for the D-Day Allied Invasion of France.

When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible ; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer.

The Upper Canada Rebellion was largely defeated shortly after it began, although resistance lingered until 1838 ( and became more violent )-mainly through the support of the ' Hunter Patriots ' ( aka Hunters ' Lodges ), a secret anti-British, American militia that emerged in states around the Great Lakes during the first half of the 19th century.

The White Guard ( Finnish: Suojeluskunta, plural: Suojeluskunnat, Finland-Swedish: Skyddskår, literary translated as Protection / Defense Corps ) was a voluntary militia that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guard as part of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918.

Furthermore the Jeffersonians changed over time as new issues emerged, such as how to fight a major War of 1812 with a weak central government and militia that refused to leave their state:

After the Madison administration experienced serious trouble financing the War of 1812, and discovered the Army and militia were unable to make war effectively, a new generation of Republican nationalists emerged.

Eventually a weary Eames, who was in his mid-fifties when the controversy began and who had served Hingham as first militia captain, a selectman, and Deputy in the General Court, threw in the towel and moved to nearby Marshfield where he again served as Deputy and emerged as a leading citizen, despite his brush with the Hingham powers-that-be.

Hezbollah first emerged in 1982 as a militia during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, also known as Operation Peace for Galilee.

Community bands in the United States often emerged from militia or military bands.

The first phase was the transition from the involuntary militia system that existed prior to the War of 1812 to the Voluntary militia system that emerged during the war.

Cuba has three militia organizations: The Territorial Troops Militia Milicias de Tropas Territoriales of about one million people ( half women ), the Youth Labor Army Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo devoted to agricultural production, and a naval militia.

In the 2008 decision of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, the de jure definition of " militia " as used in United States jurisprudence was discussed.

New France was defended by about 3, 000 troupes de la marine, companies of colonial regulars ( some of whom had significant woodland combat experience ), and also made calls for militia support when needed.

The people thus incited, de Witt and his brother, Cornelis, were murdered by an Orangist civil militia in The Hague on 20 August.

Just had the help of Melchor de Navarrete and Carlos Desnaux, a flotilla of six ships ( the flagship vessels Galicia over San Felipe, San Carlos, Africa, and Dragon Conqueror ) and a force of 3, 000 soldiers and militia men from urban 600 who joined the Indian archers inside.

In 1959, Duvalier created a rural militia, the Milice Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale ( MVSN, ), commonly referred to as the Tonton Macoutes after a Creole term for the bogeyman, to extend and bolster support for the regime in the countryside.

Children serve in armed militia groups linked to the government, including the Alliance patriotique de l ’ ethnie Wé ( APWé ) and the Union patriotique de résistance du Grand Ouest ( UPRGO ).

There were many new riots ; on 20 August, Johan de Witt visited his brother in prison ; both were then murdered by an Orangist civil militia that had been instructed by Tromp, the Orangist admiral.

In 1772 when the territory was under Spanish rule, the militia constructed La Iglesia de la Ascensión de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo de Lafourche de los Chetimaches ( the Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church of Lafourche of the Chitimaches ) to serve the area.

* Book IX: de linguis, gentibus, regnis, militia, civibus, affinitatibus ; Languages, peoples, kingdoms, cities and titles

On the 3rd, the foraging party, led by Banastre Tarleton, went out but collided with Lauzun's Legion, and John Mercer's Virginia militia, led by the Marquis de Choisy.

It began with the defeat of a Virginia militia contingent led by Colonel George Washington by the French troupes de la marine in the Ohio valley.

The Fleurdelisé takes its white cross from the ancient royal flags of France, and its white fleurs-de-lis and blue field from a banner honouring the Virgin Mary reputedly carried by French-Canadian militia at General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm's victory at Carillon.

** People ’ s Liberation Army ( PLA ) in Lebanon ( Arabic: Jayish al-Tahrir al-Sha ’ aby ) or Armée de Libération Populaire ( ALP ) in French was / is the militia of the Druze Progressive Socialist Party.

Born in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, in 1795, the third son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon, Taché studied at the Séminaire de Québec until the War of 1812 when he joined the 5th battalion of the incorporated militia as an ensign.

While the militia was routing, and before Gates ' flight, he ordered his right flank under de Kalb to attack the opposing British militia forces.

On 26 October 1813, a force consisting of about 1, 630 British regulars, militia and Mohawk warriors under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American force of about 4, 000 attempting to invade Canada.

In addition to his own corps, the Canadian Voltigeurs, and George MacDonnell's 1st Light Battalion, de Salaberry had called in several units of the Select Embodied Militia and local militia units.