Players must use peasants armed with swords in order to defeat these threats to the kingdom.

On 23 August in Meissen, 2,000 peasants, armed with flails, clubs and axes, forced the release of imprisoned rebels.

Louis Philippe put himself between a peasant armed with a carbine and the priests, saving their lives.

He'd been able to evade several peasants armed with rifles, but he knew he'd be no match for four experienced bandits carrying machine guns.

In addition, Lesser Poland fielded approximately 2,000 peasants armed with war scythes and pikes, as well as 11 cannons.

In response to rumors, fearful peasants armed themselves in self-defense and, in some areas, attacked manor houses.

Her unit was composed of roughly 280 infantry, 60 cavalry and several hundred peasants armed with war scythes.

The remainder consisted of 30,000 peasants armed with maces, bows, and other home-made weapons.

The meeting turned into a heated argument, and then into a riot, in which peasants, armed with sticks and pickaxes, surrounded the officials.

The peasants, being poorly armed, were quickly defeated by the Imperial forces and around 200 were killed.