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.

This was discovered while underway, and local militia rallied to the scene, and riders spread word of the incident across the colony.

After the Dutch Cape Colony was established in 1652, the word was used to describe bands of militia.

During these conflicts the word entered English, retaining its general Afrikaans meaning of a " militia unit " or a " raid ".

General Schuyler, at Albany when he received word of Ticonderoga's fall, immediately rode to Fort Edward, where there was a garrison of about 700 regulars and 1, 400 militia.

When word arrived in late July that the French had mobilized to attack the fort, another 1, 000 regulars and militia arrived, swelling Monro's force to about 2, 300 effective troops.

The cannons of an organized state militia confronted two rebel armies, and thus Shays ' Rebellion failed — largely due to a miscommunication with a third general, who had unilaterally postponed the attack until the following day, but word never reached the other two armies.

Clark therefore sent word to Colonel John Bowman, the senior militia officer in Kentucky, requesting that the colonel send Dillard's men and any other recruits he could find to the falls.

When word of the Boston revolt reached Long Island, politicians and militia leaders became more assertive, and by mid-May dominion officials had been ousted from a number of communities.

As news articles spread the word of his victory, Tryon was branded a hero of the colonies for defeating the larger group of Regulators with his small, well prepared militia.

In German, the word means " defence of the country "; but the term as applied to an insurrectional militia is very ancient, and lantveri are mentioned in Baluzii Capitularia, as quoted in Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 262, 10th edition.

Though the word can simply refer to the adolescent age of young men of training age, its main use is for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution ( ephebeia ) that saw to building them into citizens, but especially training them as soldiers, sometimes already sent into the field ; the Greek city state ( polis ) mainly depended, as the Roman republic before Gaius Marius ' reform, on its militia of citizens for defence.

Definite word reached them just before sunrise, and Captain Parker's company of militia left the tavern to assemble in two ranks on the common.

He sent word to Colonel Allan Maclean at Quebec to bring more of his Royal Highland Emigrants and some militia forces to Sorel, from where they would move up the Richelieu toward St. Jean, while Carleton would lead a force across the Saint Lawrence at Longueuil.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

A plain text list of dates with this format can be easily sorted by File managers, word processors, spreadsheets and other software tools with built-in sorting functions.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

The word datura comes from the Hindi dhatūrā (" thorn apple "); record of this name dates back to 1662 ( OED ).

The name of hockey itself has no clear origin, though the first known mention of the word ' hockey ' in English dates to 1363.

The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet and prophecy.

The English word orthography dates from the 15th century.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

The concept of a " picture element " dates to the earliest days of television, for example as " Bildpunkt " ( the German word for pixel, literally ' picture point ') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow.

The word esoteric dates back to the 2nd century CE.

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California ; publication dates as listed in the 93. 1 ( 1993 ) edition: 1980 – 84, 1987, 1990 – 93

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745.

In Old English, the word wicing appears first in the Anglo-Saxon poem, " Widsith ", which probably dates from the 9th century.

According to recent research, the word dates from before the sail was taken into use by the Germanic peoples of North-Western Europe, because the Old Frisian spelling shows that the word was pronounced with a palatal k and thus in all probability existed in North-Western Germanic before that palatalization happened, i. e. in the 5th century or before ( in the western branch ).

The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates from the work of John Money ( 1955 ), and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards ( see below ).

The word itself dates to at least 1917.

This word dates from the Muromachi period, and was possibly coined when the word " 切る = kiru ( cut ), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than Samurai.

Solemnly he walked me back to Alfred's house without a word passing between us.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

" I had a revolver in my pocket and without saying a word to him, I took it out of my overalls and I fired a bullet into the back of his head.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.

Even though Viscount Meng Yi gave his word not to interfere with an attempt, he went back on his earlier promise to dismantle the walls.

The word computation has an archaic meaning ( from its Latin etymological roots ), but the word has come back in use with the arising of a new scientific discipline: computer science.

A word may also enter another language, develop a new form or meaning there, and be re-borrowed into the original language ; this is called a Rückwanderer ( German for " one who wanders back ").

Wyche asked to talk directly to the Commissioner and word immediately came back that the " no-huddle " would not be penalized.

The two meanings of critical theory — from different intellectual traditions associated with the meaning of criticism and critique — derive ultimately from the Greek word kritikos meaning judgment or discernment, and in their present forms go back to the 18th century.

In Finnish the name for Easter pääsiäinen, traces back to the verb pääse-meaning to be released, as does the Sámi word Beassážat.

The oldest documented use of the word " tennō " is on a wooden slat, or mokkan, that was unearthed in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture in 1998 and dated back to the reign of Emperor Temmu and Empress Jitō.

Attempts to trace the word back to a Latin root have been pronounced " phonologically impossible " or " inadmissable ".

The usage of the word functional goes back to the calculus of variations, implying a function whose argument is a function and the name was first used in Hadamard's 1910 book on that subject.

Having noted the current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of feudalism, she argued that the word is only a construct with no basis in medieval reality, an invention of modern historians read back " tyrannically " into the historical record.