Word: militiamen
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...first battle of the River Raisin was fought Jan. 22, 1813, not more than three blocks from where tear gas routed the CIO picket line June 10, 1937. It was an engagement between 800 Kentucky militiamen sent by General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember...
Upshot was that President Roosevelt personally requested the steelmasters to keep their plants closed until his Steel Mediation Board had done its work. And Ohio's Governor Davey dispatched 4,800 militiamen into the Mahoning & Trumbull Counties with orders to preserve the status quo. The plants stayed closed and, rare in U. S. history, the strikers greeted the arrival of troopers with loud cheers...
...rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship for a barnstorming campaign along the coast...
...Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da Cunha might try with his 30,000 militiamen...
...victims of violence which must be autopsied by the coroner, are delivered to a State anatomical board, of which Dr. Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...