Word: guerillas
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...character was given the desultory guerilla warfare against Afridi tribesmen on the northwest frontier when one of a party of tribesmen shot down and killed a Capt. F. Ashcroft of a British infantry platoon, Observers thought that the incident would precipitate a far more aggressive policy on the part of the British toward suppressing the uprising...
...Kaho (Fox) took a film of Mexican Guerilla Pancho Villa. Villa demanded the picture or Kaho's life. Kaho gave him raw film, escaped with the real...
...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...
...facts briefly were these. In the bloody guerilla battling that followed the Coeur d'Alene trouble, Governor Steunenberg of Idaho had called out the state militia, who, using unquestionably brutal means had succeeded in beating down the equally murderous members of the Federation. Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him. Haywood with two others was held for the murder; the news of the trial filled the press and three names filled the news. Most of all, Haywood, the thick-lipped, scarfaced, foul-mouthed friend...
...Fletcher mines and were threatening to shoot him, "as an example to these Yankee Pirates." At Washington the Navy Department & Marine Corps could only bleat that for the past six weeks their scout planes have not been able to so much as ascertain the whereabouts of shrewd Guerilla Augusto Calderon Sandino...