When a private car was commandeered to transport a machine gun, one of the civilians in it overheard an order "to drive everyone out and burn the colony".
As had already been widely reported, the forty-three students were among a larger group of militantly leftist students who, that night in Iguala, had commandeered buses to transport themselves to an upcoming protest in Mexico City.
Rosales explained that at a national assembly of rural normal-school students held in Morelos in mid-September, before the disappearance, the Ayotzinapa School had been charged with the responsibility of providing temporarily commandeered buses to transport students to Mexico City on October 2nd.
For cargo transport, the Byzantines usually commandeered ordinary merchantmen as transport ships (phortēgoi) or supply ships (skeuophora).
He established a supply base on the Pamunkey River (a navigable tributary of the York River) at White House Landing where the Richmond and York River Railroad extending to Richmond crossed, and commandeered the railroad, transporting steam locomotives and rolling stock to the site by barge.
Ernesto said the students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to transport them to a future protest, a practice usually tolerated by the bus companies.
A 35-year-old government employee who gave his name as Hassan said some people could no longer go in to work because the state had begun commandeering buses to transport security services and militiamen.
Some groups of government workers slept on the streets because all public transport had been commandeered to move people to Castro-related activities.
Army units based around Damascus commandeered a number of trucks to transport weaponry to alternative locations, although movement was restricted by heavy fighting near major highways.
Simon Burns MP, the minister of state for transport, sparked anger on Sunday when it emerged he had commandeered one of his department's two pool cars to carry him to and from his constituency home in Chelmsford rather than use the regular and much cheaper 35-minute commuter service to Liverpool Street station.
