Word: militiamen
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Arriving at Fort Edward in need of provisions, Burgoyne sent a Hessian force to seize American stores at Bennington. New Hampshire and Vermont militiamen intercepted the raiders, and drove them off in disorder with a loss of 207 men. The Americans, who took 600 prisoners, lost only 30 killed and 40 wounded...
Some of the militiamen in Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry...
...Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days in Kwongning hsien . . . -Authorities in Nanhoi hsien are carrying out their movement to clear the local prison of its overflowing inmates. About 20 are being taken out each day . . . for execution . . . More than 300 have been executed during the current month . . . The Military Control Committee of Yanping hsien yesterday carried...
...Americans were helped by a motley assortment of South Koreans-soldiers, militiamen, marines and "task forces" composed of non-uniformed youths wielding carbines, blunderbusses, clubs. This led to a certain amount of confusion. Yet U.S. Marine G25 estimated last week that the North Korean 10th Division had suffered 5,000 to 7,000 casualties...
...G.M.A. has five jeeps, seven G.M.C. six-wheeler trucks, two radios. Also under Le Huu Tu's "exclusive authority" are 5,800 militiamen equipped with very little but bush hats, about 30 old rifles per company of 120 men, and a good deal of zeal...