At the same time, he became an Arab nationalist and began procuring weapons to be smuggled into the former British Mandate of Palestine, for use by irregulars in the Arab Higher Committee and the Army of the Holy War militias.

Serbs became mercenaries in foreign armies, and fought in the irregular militias and guerrilla units of Hajduks and Uskoks within the Balkans ( Habsburg Monarchy ), while others joined the Hussars, Seimeni, Stratioti etc.

He steadily became prominent in the Phalange, which had defeated rival Christian militias by July 1980 and incorporated them into the Lebanese Forces ( LF ).

In 1847, the Whitman massacre and the Cayuse War in what became southeastern Washington raised fears among white settlers throughout the region and led to the formation of large volunteer militias organized to fight Indians.

Meanwhile the necessity for providing for the defence of the imperial territories against the Lombards led to the formation of local militias, who at first were attached to the imperial regiments, but gradually became independent, as they were recruited entirely locally.

Several other village militias, which together became known as the resistance, armed by the PNG defence forces, forced the BRA out of their areas.

Disarming the militias ( who had been allowed to keep their weapons since the 1952 Revolution ) became a priority to Paz, and this enhanced the role the " new " armed forces played in the national arena.

In 1934, the town became one of several battlegrounds between Social Democrat and Christian Social Parties ( and their respective Schutzbund and Heimwehr militias ) in the Austrian Civil War that brought about the fascist corporate state that ruled the country until the German Anschluss in 1938.

Deploying the Ituri brigade conducting cordon and search operations improved the security conditions in Ituri, but at the same time the peacekeepers became the target of the militias.

He became administrator of the boyar's estate and, in 1806, was named vătaf ( leader of the local militias ) at Cloşani.

Amal became one of the most important Shi ' a Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War.

It was only with the establishment of a Constitution ( which explicitly forbade the provinces from maintaining military forces of their own ) and a national government recognized by all the provinces that the Army became a single force, absorbing the older provincial militias.

In addition to the two major conflicting views, prominent Lebanese politicians of the myriad religious denominations in Lebanon have also tended to be feudal warlords commanding their own private militias and feared that a strong army would endanger their personal power.

During the Crimean War, Russia ’ s 13, 000 troops consisting mainly of Georgian militias under General Lieutenant Prince Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov ( Andronikashvili ) routed Sinan Pasha ’ s Turkish corps of 35, 000 strong on the left bank of the Choloki River on June 4, 1854.

The meeting of a Buenos Aires cabildo abierto ( an extraordinary meeting of the municipal council with assistance of over 200 notables from government, the church, guilds and other corporations ) during 22 May 1810, came under strong pressure from the militias and a crowd that formed in front of the cabildo hall on the Plaza Mayor ( today the Plaza de Mayo ), up to 25 May.

During the First Republic, increasing radicalization of politics led to certain militias associating with certain political parties.

The replacement of the state militias by the National Guard also produced a replacement of the politics and cultural traditions that supported the militias.

* 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

The climax of this military insurrection was during the night of September 4 to 5 when protestant militias tried to take over the city of Lyon.

At this point these armies primarily consisted of regional defence militias and city trained bands who were sympathetic to the Parliamentary cause.

Three years later he gave it the title of " city " and used its militias against Rome.

The Schola Saxonum took its name from the militias of Saxons who served in Rome, but it eventually developed into a hostelry for English visitors to the city.

As of 2011 urban militias, known as Milicias Populares, of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are active in the city and surrounding areas.

Though Preveza would remain under Ottoman rule for more than a century, this event – both the short period of Greek militias active in the city, and influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution, and the shock of the massacre which followed – had a part in the development of Greek nationalism towards the Greek War of Independence which broke out three decades later.

Over the next decade, the Punisher would be shown fighting virtually every known criminal organization including the Italian Mafia, the Russian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies, the Irish Mob, biker gangs, street gangs, gunrunning militias, muggers, killers, rapists, psychopaths, violent racists, sadists, pedophiles, and corrupt city officials.

On June 17, 2004, hundreds of troops of Abdul Salaam Khan, who had rejected the Afghan government's plan to disarm regional militias, attacked Chaghcharan and took over the city in an afternoon-long siege.

The Remonstrant regents now felt so threatened that they resorted to the desperate measure of the so-called " Sharp Resolution " of the States of Holland of 4 August 1617, which authorized city governments to raise mercenary troops, called waardgelders, outside the federal army or civic militias, to maintain public order.

The National Guard () was the name given at the time of the French Revolution to the militias formed in each city, in imitation of the National Guard created in Paris.

He describes Barcelona in 1936 as a city under the control of the workers-police replaced by workers ' patrols, workplaces collectivised-and the egalitarian nature of the militias in Barcelona ( such as the POUM militia in which he served ).

However, by June, the threat had shifted from Sunni insurgents, now reportedly in open talks with coalition and government officials on the circumstances regarding a truce or cease-fire, and foreign terrorists to the Shi ' a and Sunni militias that roamed the streets of Baghdad and attacked one another's communities, dividing the city in two sectarian regions.

On July 18, the German civilian authorities and pro-Nazi Ukrainian militias withdrew from the city.

Nobby Nobbs had an early career as an armourer in one of the Pseudopolis city militias.

Following the breakdown of central authority that accompanied the civil war in 1991, various local militias fought for control of the city, including supporters of Mohammed Said Hersi (" General Morgan ") and Col. Omar Jess ' Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ).

As the army retreats, fifth columnists favoring the Nationalist side start a riot in the city to take over control of strategic buildings and are defeated under heavy losses by anarchist militias ( the army is already retreating ).

It aimed to restore law and order in the city but instead broke out into clashes with Fatah militias.

It provides details of fighting on the road to Baghdad, including a key battle at the holy city of Najaf, where militias and Fedayeen Saddam used suicide tactics in a fruitless effort to stop the 70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks.

For this end he drafted all men capable to bear arms, regardless of their social condition ( including slaves ), and formed militias to defend the city.

Names of those Masurs supporting Polish side were published in German newspapers, and their photos presented in German shops ; afterwards a regular hunts were organised after them by German militias which terrorized Polish population At least 3, 000 Warmian and Masurian activists who were engaged for Polish side had to flee the region out of fear of their lives At the same time German police engaged in active surveillance of Polish minority and attacks against Polish activists Before the plebiscite Poles started to flee the region to escape the German harassment and terror

* Cantons of Lebanon, unofficial areas controlled by the various militias and factions during the Lebanese Civil War and afterwards.

This resulted in army mutinies in 1996 – 1997, where fractions of the military clashed with the presidential guard, the Unité de sécurité présidentielle ( USP ) and militias loyal to Patassé.

Fierce fighting took place primarily in the East of Austria, especially in the streets of some outer Vienna districts, where large fortress-like municipal workers ' buildings were situated, and in the northern, industrial areas of the province of Styria, where Nazi agents had great interest in a bloodbath between security forces and workers ' militias.

During the battle for Jerusalem where the Jewish community of 100, 000 people was besieged, most Arab villages of the Tel Aviv – Jerusalem corridor were captured by Jewish militias and leveled.

With the creation of the British Empire, militias were also raised in the colonies, where little support could be provided by regular forces.

Overseas militias were first raised in Jamestown, Virginia, and in Bermuda, where the Bermuda Militia followed a similar trajectory over the next two centuries to that in Britain.

The voievod title was kept in its initial form by the Wallachian ( Romanian ) nobility of Ţara Haţegului and Maramureş ( In Transylvania ), where the title of voievod, together with the princely cneaz title, had the meaning of noble or local ruler, but also leader of local armies or militias.

Washington began the work of molding the militias into something more closely resembling an army, appointing senior officers ( where the militias had typically elected their leaders ), and introducing more organization and disciplinary measures to the encamped militias.

* The long power struggle between Afghanistan's armed factions takes a decisive turn when Taliban militias enter Kabul, where they meet little resistance from government forces.

At Beirut and elsewhere, Phalange ’ militia sections were heavily committed in several battles against Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) leftist militias and suffered considerable casualties, notably at the Battle of the Hotels in October 1975 where they fought the al-Murabitoun and the Nasserite Correctionist Movement ( NCM ), and later at the ‘ Spring Offensive ’ held against Mount Lebanon in March 1976.

By late 1745 he had rallied all the southern militias and regular forces, and the Jacobites withdrew to northern Scotland where they were defeated at Culloden in 1746.

In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet ideological rivalry extended to Africa and the Middle East, where the Soviet Union and Red China funded and supported opposed political parties, militias, and states, notably the Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) between Ethiopia and Somalia, the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 1979 ), the Zimbabwean Gukurahundi ( 1980 – 1987 ), the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ), and factions of the Palestinian people.

In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivised the land.

" Caudillos began to attain this power in the course of the Spanish American wars of independence, where the militias did much of the fighting and earned a heroic reputation.

Many of these refugees have gone into camps where emergency aid has created conditions that, although extremely basic, are better than in the villages, which offer no protection against the various militias that operate in the region.

In addition, president Paz Estenssoro ( elected to a second term in 1960 ) was leaning more heavily on military support to restore order to various parts of the country where rival pro-MNR militias had turned on each other, often on behalf of specific MNR leaders.

The militias, mostly Hutu, were entrenched in refugee camps in eastern Zaire, where many had fled to escape the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide.

In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivised the land.

In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivised the land.

The Mormon militias had a hard time catching the Ute raiding warriors, but they sometimes attacked women and children in villages, where they also destroyed Ute stores and goods.

Unlike at Tippermuir and Aberdeen, where Montrose had annihilated hastily conscripted and poorly trained militias, the troops he faced at Inverlochy were veterans of the war in England.

Because of the free blacks ' contributions during the Natchez War, the French allowed them to join Louisiana's militias, which gave them more connections into the colonial society, where they achieved an independent social status between the French colonists and slaves.