10 sentences with 'militia'
Example sentences and phrases with the word militia and other words derived from it.
• « Fearing the power of the Huguenots and detesting their faith, the Guises created the Catholic League, an armed militia of Catholics that included armed monks, townspeople and soldiers. »
• « The disappearance of the national armies in 1821 led the province to organise its own forces. Many chiefs and officers retired and those who remained in active service took command of the militia. »
• « A literate slave named Jemmy led a large group of slaves in an armed insurrection against white settlers, killing several before the militia stopped them. »
• « The militia suppressed the rebellion after a battle in which both slaves and militiamen were killed, and the remaining slaves were executed or sold to the West Indies. »
• « The French, aided by the Potawotomis, Ottawas, Shawnees and Delawares, ambushed the fifteen hundred British soldiers and Virginia militia who marched on the fort. »
• « However, this effort failed on 19 April, when Massachusetts militia and British troops fired on each other as the British troops marched towards Lexington and Concord, an event immortalised by the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as the "shot heard round the world". The American Revolution had begun. »
• « Expecting secrecy, his troops left Boston under cover of darkness, but Boston horsemen informed the militia of British plans. »
• « Founded in 1783, the society admitted only officers of the Continental Army and French forces, not members of the militia or "minutemen". »