7 sentences with “mobilised”

After the battles of Lexington and Concord, New England was fully mobilised for war.

In the 18th century, fighting was seasonal. Armies mobilised in the spring, fought in the summer, and retreated to winter quarters in the autumn.

A brief war, the Black Hawk War, ensued in 1832. White settlers panicked at the return of the natives, and militia and federal troops were quickly mobilised.

Jefferson and Madison mobilised the response to the laws in the form of statements known as the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which argued that the laws were illegal and unconstitutional.

Gage's actions led to the formation of local rebel militias that could be mobilised in a minute. These "minutemen", many of whom were veterans of the French and Indian War, played an important role in the war for independence.

For Russia and France, of the twenty million men mobilised during the war, more than 76% were casualties (killed, wounded or missing). An entire generation of young men was almost wiped out, with lasting demographic consequences for both countries.

The USSR also had a great superiority in quantity (though not quality) of equipment at the beginning of the Second World War. In fact, by the end of the war, the Soviets had mobilised 30.6 million soldiers (800,000 of whom were women: the USSR was the only nation with women in front-line combat positions, where they equalled their male compatriots in effectiveness). Given this enormous force, Stalin was surprised when the Germans attacked, reportedly spending hours in a daze before ordering an armed response.