militiamen in English

noun
1
a member of a militia.
Among the wounded were an army officer, an enlisted soldier, a pro-government militiaman and a villager.

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1. One thousand state militiamen were sent to control the agitators.

2. Militiamen separated us, and the trial took its course.

3. The Portuguese army in Brazil consisted of professional troops and militiamen.

4. Nyiramasuhuko allegedly told militiamen, "before you kill the women, you need to rape them".

5. When the magazine was empty, two dead militiamen sat in the vehicle, mouths open, the upholstery smoking.

6. A heavy police contingent, with more than 100 jeeps and bus loads of militiamen in reserve, separated the two sides.

7. The Nationalists' military advances were everywhere marked by the slaughter of leftist militiamen and of known left-wing and Republican activists.

8. Synonyms of Ambuscaded to lie in wait for and attack by surprise marching to the rescue of the beseiged Fort Stanwix, 800 colonial militiamen were Ambuscaded by a force of …

9. On the ridgetop the militiamen built a defensive Breastworks --a low wall of stacked rocks--from which they could fire down upon the passing troops

10. The East Timorese voted to secede from Indonesian control in a referendum in 1999 - a vote that will be remembered for the brutality of militiamen who tried to disrupt the process.

11. Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution.Carl P

12. Synonyms of Ambuscades (Entry 2 of 2) to lie in wait for and attack by surprise marching to the rescue of the beseiged Fort Stanwix, 800 colonial militiamen were ambuscaded by a force of Loyalist troops and their Native American allies

13. ‘The regiment gained the enemy's Breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over.’ ‘He ordered soldiers to tear down Breastworks and use the logs to feed the fires.’ ‘Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager Breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries.’