10 sentences with 'militias'
Example sentences and phrases with the word militias and other words derived from it.
• « Provincial militias formed by peasants who fought without adhering to the rules of military strategy were called montoneras. »
• « In many cases these informal militias won victories, but failed when faced with well-commanded regular armies. »
• « Lavalle's troops disbanded the militias formed by the peasantry and while Rosas marched to Santa Fe in search of help, ex-Governor Dorrego was taken prisoner by military chiefs he believed to be loyal. »
• « The Riojan caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga entered Córdoba with militias to fight Paz, but the latter defeated him successively at La Tablada and Oncativo. »
• « In the "Petition of Congress to the King" of 24 October, the delegates adopted another recommendation of the Suffolk Resolutions and proposed that the colonies raise and regulate their own militias. »
• « Massachusetts delegates met in a Provincial Congress and issued the Suffolk Resolutions, which formally rejected the Coercive Acts and called for the raising of colonial militias to take military action if necessary. The Suffolk Resolutions signalled the overthrow of royal rule in Massachusetts. »
• « 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. »
• « The resolutions also called for the formation of militias under the control of the Continental Congress. Loyalists and Patriots clashed in North Carolina in February 1776 at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. »
• « During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress had sent requisitions for funds to the former individual colonies (now revolutionary states). These states already had a huge financial burden because they had to pay the militias as well as supply them. »
• « He immediately began commissioning American privateer ships and organising militias of American volunteers to attack Spanish possessions in America, and then travelled to Philadelphia, rallying support for the French cause along the way. »