Sentence examples for first militia from inspiring English sources

Abdul Kader (he wanted only his first name to be used, for obvious reasons) joined his first militia about six years ago, when he was 20.

He also organized the first militia in Massachusetts.

'A' Company was detached at this time to Merauke Force in the Dutch East Indies, becoming the first Militia unit to serve outside of Australian territory.

In the first Militia Act, Congress gave the President authority to call out the militias and imposed penalties on any militiaman who refused to obey orders.

Hipólito Mora, a local businessman who co-founded Michoacán's first militia in the town of La Ruana last February, was arrested on Tuesday.

The British artillery, and the strength of numbers that threatened to flank their position convinced the first militia line to retreat to the second after half an hour of resistance.

Sheikhs in western Iraq had already formed a first militia-like group, dubbed "The Revolutionaries of Anbar," before the Samarra crisis erupted.

A second militia was also said to have agreed to disband, Reuters reported.

He is the third militia leader Congo has sent to the court and the first arrested while an active military officer.

But a second militia, Rafallah al-Sehati, that had not previously been involved in guarding the Americans, was also asked to provide assistance that night, a spokesman for the militia said.

As the Seleka abuses grew, a second militia — the antibalaka, organized by former members of the security forces and consisting largely of Christians — rose up to retaliate, and, as it advanced, the country slid into a murderous sectarian war.