"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Secondly, the Ethiopian army was based on a feudal system of organization, and as a result, nearly the entire army was a peasant militia.
- In reply, the peasant militia cut off the water supply to Barcelona.
- A large peasant militia calling itself the "Army of the Land" and numbering approximately 8,000 marched on Barcelona again, as they had a year earlier.
- On 26 January Mortier's army defeated a peasant militia of some 4-5,000 men at Alcañiz.
- He was asked to lead a peasant militia during the Crimean War but declined on account of poor health.
- Secondly, the Ethiopian army's feudal organization meant that nearly the entire force was composed of peasant militia.
- Farmers were also encouraged to join peasant militias to act as supporting units to the official standing army.
- "I think," he said carefully, "you would do better to restore the peasant militias you once had than to spend your coin on foreign troops."
- In several states radical governors armed peasant militias.
- Soon after coming to power, David created the regular army and peasant militia in order to be able to resist Seljuq colonization of his country.
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