Towards the end of his reign, the King could muster some 3, 000 knights, 9, 000 sergeants, 6, 000 urban militiamen, and thousands of foot sergeants.

Settlers would provide support for the fort at Penetanguishene by providing food and other local supplies, and, if the war with the U. S. again broke out, the trained militiamen could be armed to defend the region.

A recently-constructed Fort George ( called " Fort Rascal " by one of Shirley's Regiment, which occupied Fort Oswego ) consisted of an incomplete wooden palisade fort that lacked even loopholes through which defenders could fire, and was occupied by 150 New Jersey militiamen.

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

In the confusion, some of the militiamen who were fighting from the woods were mistaken for the enemy and fired upon by the British regulars.

While his main force engaged the British in a series of battles, the militiamen concentrated on picking off small outposts and isolated enemy parties.

With Brier creek behind him and surrounded on all other sides by the enemy, Elbert and Lieutenant Colonel John McIntosh together with 60 Continentals and 150 Georgia militiamen, made a heroic effort to turn the fortune of battle without any help from the other two divisions.

Yerin allocated 10, 000-12, 000 militiamen and 2, 000-3, 000 internal troops to keep the situation under control.

It was thought that calling the conscripts ' militiamen ' would make this more acceptable, as it would render them distinct from the rest of the army.

Castration has been used in modern conflicts, such as the Janjaweed militiamen currently () attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan, often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death.

Burke County citizens participated in the Battle of Kings Mountain that pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the British commander Ferguson at Kings Mountain, SC in the American Revolution, rather than waiting for him to come to them, militiamen throughout the Blue Ridge crossed over the mountains and thus were called the " Over Mountain Men ".

Intending to give the appearance of Native American aggression, their plan was to arm some Southern Paiute Native Americans and persuade them to join with a larger party of their own militiamen — disguised as Native Americans — in an attack.

Running low on water and provisions, the emigrants allowed a party of militiamen to enter their camp, who assured them of their safety and escorted them out of their hasty fortification.

When a few workers attempted to storm into the plant to stop the relighting of the furnaces, militiamen fought them off and wounded six with bayonets.

The governor of Michigan, Stevens T. Mason, along with a detachment of 200 militiamen, pursued them in two steamships.

This was done primarily to eliminate the food source ( s ) of the Marsh Arabs and to prevent any remaining militiamen from taking refuge in the marshes, the Badr Brigades and other militias having used them as cover.

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.

Nine German Junkers Ju 52s and eight Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM. 81s have given the column local air superiority, while a civilian aeroclub from Seville has provided aerial reconnaissance and in one instance forced Republican militiamen to abandon their positions by dropping melons on them.

The KdA delegation had announced they were willing to train Congolese people's militiamen in East Germany as well and supply them with equipment.

" Though he was often typecast as militiamen or spies, there were good roles among them, such as the KGB general in the cold-war thriller TASS upolnomochen zayavit ( Tass is authorised to announce, 1984 ), another television series based on a Semyonov novel.

The Indians executed many of them in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre earlier in the year, in which about 100 peaceful Christian Indian men, women, and children had been murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen.

Nyiramasuhuko allegedly told militiamen, " before you kill the women, you need to rape them ".

These comments were lauded throughout Kentucky, but a Boston newspaper reminded offended New Englanders that General Jackson had actually commanded Kentucky militiamen at New Orleans and had a decidedly different opinion of them.

The entire column dissolved in disorder as the Canadian militiamen and Indians enveloped them and continued to snipe at the British flanks from the woods on the sides of the road.

) When Pino, Chaves, and some of the militiamen insisted on fighting, Armijo ordered the cannon pointed at them.

The rebels then unleashed a ferocious charge on the surviving militiamen who were quickly overwhelmed and pursued for miles across the surrounding countryside, only four of them escaping to the temporary safety of Wexford.

Military appointments are all reviewed by President Teodoro Obiang, and few of the native militiamen come from outside of Obiang's Mongomo-based Esangui clan.

A later dispute over Hezbollah preservation of its telecoms network led to clashes and Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of several West Beirut neighborhoods from Future Movement militiamen loyal to Fouad Siniora.

Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of several West Beirut neighborhoods from Future Movement militiamen loyal to the backed government, in street battles that left 11 dead and 30 wounded.

Following their defeat in the Jordanian civil war, thousands of Palestinian militiamen regrouped in Lebanon, led by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, with the intention of replicating the modus operandi of attacking Israel from a politically and militarily weak neighbour.

By 2006, more than 60, 000 former militiamen from around the country have been disarmed.

* December 25 – In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry ; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Husars, despite their capitulation to Austrian officers.

Late on the night of August 15, Stark was awakened by the arrival of Parson Thomas Allen and a band of Massachusetts militiamen from nearby Berkshire County who insisted on joining his force.

On 13 November, Essex was able to muster 24, 000 men for the Battle of Turnham Green, including the remnants of the Edgehill army and the City trained bands, as well as apprentices and militiamen from Hertfordshire, Essex and Surrey.

This was an alliance of pro-Parliament militiamen from Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire commanded by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester.

A group of mounted militiamen were organized in a unit known as a commando and headed by a Commandant, who was normally elected from inside the unit.

An attack on Fairhaven village itself was repelled by militia under the command of Major Israel Fearing, who had marched from Wareham, some away, with additional militiamen.

The entire town of Nevada was burned to the ground on May 23, 1863, by pro-Union militiamen from nearby Cedar County.

The militiamen followed at the double-quick and hurrahing enthusiastically for General Washington brought him to the porch and evoked from him in reply a good natured and fatherly speech which the soldiers cheered to the echo.

The number of casualties at Bower Hill is unclear ; McFarlane and one or two other militiamen were killed ; one U. S. soldier may have died from wounds received in the fight.

In mid-May 1835 Ugartechea worked through the political authorities to avoid armed conflict with the militiamen under Juan N. Seguín, who departed from the town of Bexar toward Monclova, Coahuila, to aid federalist Governor Agustín Viesca.

A passing donkey saw the carrot-bolt and ate it, leaving the city gate unbolted and the militiamen from Aalst free entry of the city.

Beside his regular Austrian soldiers, he led 12, 000 men from the Electorate of Bavaria, 6, 000 troops from the Duchy of Württemberg, 5, 000 soldiers of low quality from the Archbishopric of Mainz, and 7, 000 militiamen from the County of Tyrol.

* 1780: The Fidelity Medallion was a small medal worn on a chain around the neck, similar to a religious medal, that was awarded only to three militiamen from New York state, for the capture of a British officer and spy connected directly to General Benedict Arnold ( American and British general-1780 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 -- 1783 ).

After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attacked the emigrants.

Braddock's command consisted of two regular line regiments, the 44th and 48th with about 1, 350 men with about 500 regular soldiers and militiamen from several British American colonies and artillery and other support troops.