50 examples of militiamen in sentences

There were only a few hundred militiamen that could be depended on.

An attempt to embody two thousand militiamen by ballot was a dead failure.

It would have been folly for the besieged to do other than beat a retreat, when it could be seen that General Herkimer's men were not in a position to take advantage of the sortie, and as soon as might be the brave fellows sought the shelter of the fort once more, leaving twenty of their comrades between the lines as victims of the mutiny among the Tryon County militiamen.

By noon, 600 militiamen set out in search of the fugitives.

The negroes were forced to travel slowly by reason of their women and children; and at the end of two days the militiamen, led by the new lord-governor, caught them up and surrounded them.

He turned back from the forest, fiercely resolved to search out the lord-governor, and slay him; but, falling into the hands of the militiamen, he was killed in a very horrible manner.

Volunteers and militiamen used to meet for drill on a large piece of land in the very heart of the locality; troops of charwomen formerly washed their clothes in water pits hard by, and dried them on the green-sward adjoining; and everything about wore a rural and primitive aspect.

The mutineers made signs that they wished to go forward, while the few militiamen endeavoured to detain them, expecting a reinforcement momently.

After a time the militia agreed to allow them to approach the town; as they were advancing they were met by the commandant, Martin Sorzano, Esq., with sixteen more militiamen.

They put several balls (6-pound shot) through a house in which a party of militiamen were quartered and which is the dwelling house of Captain Usher, a respectable inhabitant.

In the provinces, the armies of the military prefectures gradually lost their importance when wars became longer and militiamen proved insufficient.

The play was 'Our Boys,' and between the acts my next neighbour gave me, without any sign of emotion, a hideous account of the scene at Tweefontein after De Wet had rushed the British camp on the Christmas morning of 1901the militiamen slaughtered while drunk, and the Kaffir drivers tied to the blazing waggons.

My sympathy with the militiamen and the Kaffirs was 'pure,' whereas his was overlaid with remembered race-hatred, battle-fury, and contempt for British incompetence.

The best men have been drafted to America, and we are full of Militiamen and recruities.

Then, even our British troops were half made up of militiamen and recruits; for the pick of the old Peninsular regiments were on the ocean in transports, coming back from some fool's quarrel with our kinsfolk of America.

The people recovered courage and confidence; they rose in a body; forty thousand armed militiamen defiled, it is said, before the king.

Trained militiamen of the gibbet, they nevertheless admired this little woman's fearlessness and the old lawyer's pugnacity.

There were, besides these 200 veteran troops, 4,000 militiamen, about 2,000 men from the towns in the interior (urbános) armed with lances and machetes, 12 gunboats and several French privateers, the crews of which numbered about 300.

The column made a short halt at a "pulperia" in the outskirts of the town, to take some "refreshment," and then boldly penetrated to the plaza, where it was met by sixteen loyal militiamen.

He saluted amiably; presently they started across the yard for their quarters, distributing morsels of wisdom and advice among the militiamen, who stared at them with awe and pointed at their beaded shotpouches, which were, alas!

At Lexington, the British found a few militiamen drawn up on the village green.

By this time the militiamen had gathered in large numbers.

Some of the militiamen attacked the regulars at Concord, and when the British started on their homeward march, the fighting began in earnest.

Behind every wall and bit of rising ground were militiamen.

But this really made little difference, for Gates's Virginia militiamen ran away before the British came within fighting distance.

50 examples of  militiamen  in sentences