Word: militiamen
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...five localities of Hunan, dissident peasants and militiamen together manufactured illegal arms and attempted to whip up "the wavering sentiments of the masses" for abortive revolts (Peking People's Daily, April...
...Manpower, who is on leave as president of Michigan State College, was assigned to head a committee studying the National Guard system and to submit his findings to the National Security Council by April 1-but he has already fired without waiting to see the whites of the militiamen's eyes...
...Bunker Hill, New England militiamen had already accomplished what seemed like a miracle: they had proved that colonials could stand fast in the face of a British charge (although many of them were to run like rabbits in the future), and that their marksmanship and ability to fight from cover were military talents the British could not match...
...elementary sort of orders: that drunkenness be prohibited, that soldiers keep themselves and their camps clean. He had to do so throughout the war. He also had to put up for years with an even more horrifying phenomenon, which presented itself at Boston: his army began melting away, for militiamen, enlisted for short terms of only a few months, went home when their time was up, and always tried to take their muskets with them...
...river. Soon it did more: Benedict Arnold, the most daring, most ambitious, most feared of Washington's generals,** violated Gates's cautious orders and led two attacks, the second after his jealous superior had stripped him of his command. Burgoyne, trapped between a horde of fast-arriving militiamen and the northern wilderness, surrendered his 5,800 men, his guns, his stores, his wagons. "Turned Upside Down." It was a great victory. It accented objections by England's Whigs (notably Edmund Burke) to the war. it prompted France to contribute money, men and seapower, it enlisted the active...