Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Machine Gun in the Cathedral. It was plainly pre-arranged by the Vichy militia and other fifth columnists who, unlike the German soldiers, could not give themselves up. Apparently most of the fifth columnists had been planted at three places where the parade was known to have planned to stop. Whether the first shots were fired at Notre Dame, nobody could be sure. But the shooting started there just as the procession reached the cathedral. The time was 4:20. As the first shots rang out, Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle De Gaulle through the door. De-Gaulle shook...
...Wartime, Yes. Since the spring of 1783, when the idea was first hailed by General Washington at Newburgh, when he advocated a "hardy and well-organized militia," the U.S. has often thought, many times debated and done exactly nothing about peacetime conscription. Unlike most other nations, the U.S. has preferred to forget entirely about war between wars.Considering that in the intervening years the U.S. has come out betterin its wars than most nations, the evidence is not conclusive that thiswas a completely bad idea - in the past...
...Smugglers. The Communists claim an army of 470,000 regular troops, 2,300,000 people's militia. It is a guerrilla army, well trained in hit & run, sabotage, infiltration...
...long coming. Even before the troops left, Klansmen beat the wife of one of the farmers, then beat the farmer until he lost his mind. Failing in their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...
...hear?-from the fields, the growling of those ferocious soldiers?) In lanes and byways, terror had its inning. Patrols of the resistance corralled 40 frightened men & women in a cellar, among them some of Joseph Darnand's hated Militia. Some collaborationists killed themselves rather than surrender to their neighbors. In an alley two gendarmes forced a collaborationist to his knees, cocked pistols at his head, made him salute the Tricolor. Nearby another group dragged along an Italian by the hair, made him kneel and shout Vive la France! Then they slugged him on the head, kicked him, spat...