Relations between Fiji and Papua New Guinea became strained in November 2005, in the wake of revelations that a number of Fijian citizens, possibly mercenaries, had entered Papua New Guinea illegally and were involved in arming and training a separatist militia on the island of Bougainville.

Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in the 1770s ; the Honourable Artillery Company had an archer company between 1784 and 1794 ; and a man named Richard Mason wrote a book proposing the arming of militia with pike and longbow in 1798.

:( a ) That the United States, in recruiting, training, arming, equipping, financing, supplying and otherwise encouraging, supporting, aiding, and directing military and paramilitary actions in and against Nicaragua, had violated its treaty obligations to Nicaragua under:

Nephi also begins arming his people using the sword that Laban had as a model for production.

By 1652, fewer than fifty ships were seaworthy and the deficiency had to be made good by arming merchantmen.

Earlier in February, Aristide's lawyer had claimed that the U. S. was arming anti-Aristide troops.

Erginus made war on Thebes, but Heracles defeated the Minyans with his fellow Thebans after arming them with weapons that had been dedicated in temples.

Supporters of the Reagan administration have pointed out that the US had been the largest provider of aid to Nicaragua, and twice offered to resume aid if the Sandinstas agreed to stop arming communist insurgents in El Salvador.

He alleged that Chinese agents in the countryside had been training and arming locals to start a revolution, and on 6 January 1966, he dismissed the communist agents from the country and cut off diplomatic relations with China.

One such commentator, Mary Deitz, writes that Machiavelli's agenda was not to be satirical, as Rousseau had argued, but instead was " offering carefully crafted advice ( such as arming the people ) designed to undo the ruler if taken seriously and followed.

".. in connection with clothing and arming the new Guide Corps, Lumsden had left such matters almost entirely in his subaltern Hodson's hands.

Meanwhile, the recent fiscal crisis had brought about a transformation in French naval strategy – the Maritime Powers now outstripped France in shipbuilding and arming, and increasingly enjoyed a numerical advantage.

The Germans had engaged in a pattern of actively arming, funding and advising the Mexicans, as shown by the 1914 SS Ypiranga arms-shipping incident, and German advisors present during the 1918 Battle of Ambos Nogales.

The provincial assemblies of Connecticut and Rhode Island had by then also begun arming ships and authorized privateering.

It was not until early 1916 that the 2nd Nyasaland and 5th Kenya battalions were re-raised, this had more to do with white settler and South African sensitivities about arming and training large amounts of black African troops.

Copenhagen at that time formed a nexus of diplomatic intrigue, for George I of Great Britain had the aim of arming the northern powers against Peter the Great, and Bestuzhev received the commission to counteract this.

Yet they had rapidly learned the ways of the Europeans within that brief span, purchasing foreign vessels and arming them with foreign weaponry.

Whilst dealing with eight butterfly bombs which had fallen on RAF Harlaxton and failed to explode, Flight Sergeant Hanford of RAF Bomb Disposal ( based at RAF Digby ) noticed that the arming rods on the bombs had not fully unscrewed themselves i. e. the fuzes were not fully armed.

John Redmond had intended that they would form an official home defence force for Ireland during the War, but the British War Office baulked at arming and training the Irish nationalist movement.

The WE177 safety and arming system had three safety breaks ( which varied according to delivery mode ) in the arming chain whereas a conventional weapon only requires two.

They learn that Ferrozoica, whom Vervunhive had fought in the Trade War ninety years before, had silenced communications with its neighbours in recent months and began arming.

D ' Enghien was found guilty of being in violation of Article 2 of a law of 6 October 1791, to wit, " Any conspiracy and plot aimed at disturbing the State by civil war, and arming the citizens against one another, or against lawful authority, will be punished by death.

Seating a Boxer primer not only places the primer in the case, it also seats the anvil of the primer down onto the priming compound, in effect arming the primer.

The Irish Brigade distinguished itself from the rest of the Army of the Potomac by Meagher's insistence on arming it with Model 1842 smoothbore muskets, an obsolete weapon that was largely phased out during 1862, because he wanted his men to be able to fire buck-and-ball shot ( a. 69 caliber musket ball with four smaller balls ), which produced a shotgun effect in close-range combat and could not be used with rifles.

The protest continued for several days but reached its peak at midnight of 1 June, when the new policy of arming border services officers with Beretta Px4 Storm sidearms went into effect.

O ' Neill followed Shane's policy of arming the people, rather than rely mostly upon mercenary soldiers, such as redshanks and bonnaught.

Alarmed by the Roman occupation of the neighboring Albania, Artoces promised peace and friendship ; but the Roman commander Pompey, informed that he was secretly arming so as to fall upon the Romans on their march in the passes of the Caucasus, advanced in March 65 BC, before resuming the pursuit of Mithridates, to the Iberian strongholds of Harmozica and Seusamora.

The Commune took major steps towards democratizing the Revolution: the adoption of universal suffrage, the arming of the civilian population, absolute abolition of all remnants of noble privileges, the selling of the properties of the émigrés.

As a leading industrial center, Kuybyshev played a major role in arming the country.

Both sides fought by proxy, arming and leading the populations of the upper Congo forests in a conflict.

An arming doublet ( also called aketon ) worn under armour, particularly plate armour of fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe contains arming points for attaching plates and fifteenth century examples may include goussets sewn into the elbows and armpits to protect the wearer in locations not covered by plate.

# Decides that the United States of America, by training, arming, equipping, financing and supplying the contra forces or otherwise encouraging, supporting and aiding military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to intervene in the affairs of another State ;

The medieval quilted gambeson, aketon and arming doublet were garments worn under, or instead of, armor of maille or plate armor.

: the renunciation of one's own will and arming oneself " with the strong and noble weapons of obedience " under the banner of " the true King, Christ the Lord " ( Prol.

When a BMP-1 hit the obsolete kind of " tilt-rod " anti-tank land mine, its steeply sloped lower front glacis armour plate allowed the mine's arming rod to tilt with little resistance until the maximum deflection was reached with the mine already well under the chassis.

A more ambitious effort was Operation Paper in November 1950 ; this included the arming and supplying of remnant Nationalist Chinese troops in eastern Burma, the 93rd Division under General Li Mi, to invade the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

The AIM-26B was produced under license in Sweden as the Rb 27, arming Saab Draken fighters.

Credit for the concept of training Chinese in Western military tactics and arming them with the best available weaponry is sometimes given to Ward, other times to Li Hongzhang, a local Imperial commander “ ordered to cooperate with — and keep an eye on — Ward's unruly contingent ” and other times to Burgevine, who according to some began the training while Ward was recuperating, having been inspired by the sight of a Chinese gun crew acting under French direction.

:" The responsibility of the WSA under the Executive Order of February 7, 1942, extended to all phases of shipping including the purchase or requisition of vessels for its own use or the use of the Army, Navy, or other Government agencies ; the repairing, arming, and degaussing of WSA controlled vessels and Allied vessels under lend-lease provision ; conversion of vessels to troop transports, hospital ships, and for other special purposes ; training and providing ship personnel, operating, loading, discharging and general control of the movement of these ships ; administering and marine and war risk insurance laws and funds, and the control of terminal and port facilities, forwarding and related matters.

The doublet developed from the padded garments worn under armour, such as the gambeson, aketon, arming doublet.

The Axis Case White and Case Black offensives of the first six months of 1943 caused significant setbacks for the Partisans ; however, in September Tito took advantage of the capitulation of Italy and managed to increase the territory under his control and double his forces in size to around 200, 000 men, arming them with captured Italian weapons.