This provoked nationalist Indonesian militia, who overran the Dutch and Japanese, and tore off the blue part of the Dutch flag, changing it into the Indonesian flag.

Irish Republicans imported some 900 single-shot 1871 Mausers in the Howth gun-running for the nationalist militia called the Irish Volunteers in 1914.

Known as Mam (Uncle) Rostam, he told me he had joined the Kurdish nationalist militia, or peshmerga ("those who face death"), at age 15, in 1968.

In the meantime, groups of Ottoman Greeks had formed Greek nationalist militias within Ottoman borders and were acting on their own.

Then follows a mutiny in a nationalist militia which passes under the control of the sultan.

The army launched Operation Searchlight to curb the political and civil unrest, fighting the nationalist militias that were believed to have received training in India.

He joined the nationalist militia, the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and the following year, though only 15, was involved in the smuggling of arms into Ireland.

The army and Freikorps (nationalist militias) quelled the Spartacist uprising by force.

The protesters had announced the formation of a "national salvation" committee and demanded the disarming of nationalist militias, resignation of the current leadership and new Parliamentary elections.

The Mujibnagar government was manned by activists and politicians of the Awami League, nationalist militias, students and rebel Bengali officers and soldiers.