Aware of these developments, Union Captain Nathaniel Lyon struck first, encircling the camp, and forcing the state militia to surrender.

Fortuitously, the French struck the least prepared unit in the Allied army — a Portuguese militia unit — and routed it.

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.

While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.

He also put at the disposal of Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, who spent a holiday in Venice, a plane that allowed the prince to rush back to Vienna and to face the assailants with his militia, with the permission of President Wilhelm Miklas.

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

In some of these states militia was renamed back to police ( Bulgaria, Poland, Georgia ) while in the other states it remains ( Ukraine, Belarus ).

The military of Belize dates back to 1817, when the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer organization, was founded ; this militia became the Belize Volunteer Guard of the British Territorial Army.

Sarus had some initial success, winning a major victory and killing both of Constantine ’ s magister militia, but a relief force drove him back and saved the rebellion.

The local militia mustered to intercept the Union troops, but they were able to return to their ships after a short skirmish and headed back out to sea.

After the war, many of Jackson's Tennessee militia returned home, collected their families and belongings, and brought them back to settle near the fort.

After a stirring opening on the eve of the coup d ' état, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night, Zola then spends the next few chapters going back in time to pre-Revolutionary Provence, and proceeds to lay the foundations for the entire Rougon-Macquart cycle, committing himself to what would become the next twenty-two years of his life's work.

He first raided Richmond, defeating the defending militia, from January 5 – 7 before falling back to Portsmouth.

In 1660, settler Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a Canadian and Huron militia against a much larger Iroquois force ; none of the Canadians survived, but they succeeded in turning back the Iroquois invasion.

The reconnaissance boats turned back to the ship after their crews detected activities by Cuban militia forces along the coastline.

Met with fierce resistance from the local troops led by Lady Mo, wife to Nakhon Ratchasrima Governor, Anuwong was forced to move the troops back to Nongbua Lampoo, the city close to the present-day Udon Thani, and the Laotians eventually lost to Siam ’ s troops and the local Nongbua Lampoo ’ s militia.

When his men reached the top of the hill and saw Mercer's men fleeing from the British, most of the militia turned around and ran back down the hill.

When the British left Concord following their search ( which was largely unsuccessful, as the colonists, with advance warning of the action, had removed most of the supplies ), arriving colonial militia engaged the British column in a running battle all the way back to Charlestown.

When the authorities used military force to discontinue the extension of an originally peaceful protest strike in Zurich, on November 10, the committee gave Calonder the ultimatum to either call back the militia or accept the consequences of a nation-wide strike, Calonder declined in the name of the Federal Council, and on November 11, 1918, the committee called for an indefinite strike, now referred to as the Swiss General Strike.

This caused further loss ( including 20 killed ) and confusion among the British regulars, and they fell back to a ravine north of the fort, where the militia were forming up.

However, the boat sent from the Rose was intercepted by militia, and Andros was forced back into Fort Mary.

Half a dozen Canadian militia dragoons bolted back to the main British force, calling that the Americans were attacking.

The state militia fought back and Lincoln sent in federal troops.

When the Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Constabulary 1st Infantry Regiments and the USAFIP-NL 11th, 14th and 15th Infantry Regiments and aided the Irogot resistance was came back the main battles and clearing operations against the Imperial Japanese troops and Makapili militia groups led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita through liberated Kalinga-Apayao from 1944 to 1945.

In the battle that broke the back of the rebellion, Bayard played the role of champion and spearhead in the French assault ; a breakneck cavalry charge up a mountain slope against a seemingly impregnable barricade, defended by a pike-phalanx of Genoese militia.

The origins of the present day Mumbai police can be traced back to a militia organised by Gerald Aungier, the then Governor of Mumbai in 1669.

It is likely that Jemmy and his rebel cohort were such military men, as they fought hard against the militia when they were caught, and were able to kill 20 of them.

However, Captain Richard Bullock, with the flank companies of the 1 / 41st, two companies of militia and 300 Indians, counterattacked and, in hard fighting, drove Miller's detachment back into the fort with heavy casualties.

Even though there was some desire on the part of the French and the Abenaki for a peaceful resolution to the dispute, the Massachusetts assembly, over Shute's objections, took a hard line, cutting off trade with the Abenaki, and authorizing a militia expedition against Norridgewock, one of the main Abenaki towns.

He worked hard to enlarge the militia and raise money for the upcoming war with the United States.

Ivan Gonta, an officer in the private militia of Count Franciszek Salezy Potocki ( composed of Registered Cossacks ) was accused of connections with haidamakas by local Jewish community three months before the siege ; however, due to the lack of hard evidence and the sudden death of a star witness on his road to Uman no formal charges were made.

* 1927 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

In late 1994, most of the militia factions which had been fighting in the battle for control of Kabul were defeated militarily by forces of the Islamic State's Secretary of Defense Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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.

When Bareiro died in 1880, Caballero seized power in a coup and dominated Paraguayan politics for most of the next two decades, either as president or through his power in the militia.

At the same time most of the militia factions ( Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami, Dostum's Junbish-i Milli and Hezb-i Wahdat ) fighting in the battle for control of Kabul were defeated militarily by forces of the Islamic State's Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud.

He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.

Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame.

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

The nobles quickly re-established their control with the help of a hastily organised militia of 7000, and most of the other leaders were pursued, captured and executed, including John Ball.

Decazes, perhaps the most moderate minister, moved to stop the politicization of the National Guard ( many Verdets had been drafted in ) by banning political demonstrations by the militia in July 1816.

On most islands, struggle committees and militia were set up.

Because most of the militia were now under U. S. Army command, Reynolds could not give them orders, but he did have two battalions of mounted militia under Major Isaiah Stillman that had not been federalized.

Skull also changed his mode of operations: rather than " living from one grand scheme to the next ", he began financing a score of evil organizations that reported directly to him, most notably the militia group the Watchdogs.

Ohio Governor William Dennison was the most persistent, so McClellan was commissioned a major general of volunteers and took command of the Ohio militia on April 23, 1861.

At times the town had local militia units operating and most of the rest of the Civil War the town had Army troops stationed there.

The Confederate raiders were commanded by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and most of the troops and militia went to meet the threat further east.

The land that is now Anchorage was a part of Isaac Hite's 1773 land grant, which awarded most of the land in today's Jefferson county to officers in the Virginia militia, in exchange for their service in the French and Indian War.

Sudbury also contributed the most militia during King Philip's War and was the site of a native raid.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, U. S. counterinsurgency used music, most commonly American heavy metal or rock music, to confuse or scare local militia.

The Alaska constables receive police training from the Alaska Department of public safety and most of the constables of the militia are former, retired or part-time law enforcement officers or correctional officers, and many are prior military.

Nevertheless Steuben's Blue Book remained the official manual for the Legion, as well as for the militia of most states, until Winfield Scott in 1835 adapted the 1791 French Army Regulations for American use.

* The ranger service in the upper valley of the Connecticut, and the most northerly regiment of the New Hampshire militia in the period of the revolution: an address delivered before the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution at Concord, N. H., April 26, 1900

While British redcoats did most of the fighting in the War of 1812, Canadian militia and allied Indian warriors proved to be a vital part of Canada's defence.

Although Titokowaru's forces were numerically small and initially outnumbered in battle 12 to one by government troops, the ferocity of their attacks provoked fear among settlers and prompted the resignation and desertion of many militia volunteers, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of most government military forces from South Taranaki and giving Titokowaru control of almost all territory between New Plymouth and Wanganui.