They hired strikebreakers and pressured the government to call in the national militia when workers refused to do their jobs.
In 1831 most of them took to the sword, signing up for the national militia.
Several governments offer to reinforce these, if necessary, with men and materiel from their national militias.
The important thing was to keep other citizens and the national militias from joining the enemy.
He introduced a system of national militia in the place of foreign mercenaries.
By 1920 the army of Norway was a national militia.
The Republic did not have a standing military, but had a defense ministry that administered a national militia based on conscription.
Lately they have been declared a national militia, with a history teacher at its head.
There was also a national militia, of course, but it was undermanned and not particularly well drilled.
The agreement also provided for the disarmament of all national and non national militias.