Sentence examples for militia uniforms from inspiring English sources

Followers of Mr. Peng, the Kokang's chairman, were spotted by reporters on the Chinese side of the border buying civilian clothes to replace their militia uniforms.

After the takeover of the Andry plantation, they and dozens of comrades seized weapons, horses and militia uniforms stored on the premises and began marching toward New Orleans, burning houses and killing another white planter.

They are focusing on a decision to downgrade voter-intimidation charges stemming from an incident in the 2008 election in which two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a Philadelphia precinct in militia uniforms, one of them holding a night stick.

They have pointed to a decision to downgrade voter-intimidation charges stemming from an episode in the 2008 election in which two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a Philadelphia precinct in militia uniforms, one of them holding a nightstick.

The previous styles were the militia uniforms.

The militia uniforms were a menagerie of colors, from Cadet gray, dark blue, and hunter green, to Reds, buffs and gold tones.

On that same afternoon when Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson won his moniker, "Stonewall," he bestowed an equally flattering reputation on a Union regiment called the 14th Brooklyn, which wore red wool trousers as part of their local militia uniform modeled after the French chasseurs.

But there's still a huge problem: simply put, it's that there is no viable Iraqi government in Baghdad, nor is there likely to be one for years; the army is still weak, and the police almost risible in their flakiness - it would be flattering their capability to call them militias in uniform.

One reporter, Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, was thrown in prison for having the gall to interview a woman, Lul Ali Osman, who claimed to have been raped by members from a militia wearing government uniforms.

About the first thing Henry Knox did when he became George Washington's War Secretary was to draft a plan for establishing a uniform militia.

In 1792 the new Congress adopted the Uniform Militia Act, requiring all free able-bodied white male citizens under 45 to muster with a local militia and equip themselves "with a good musket or firelock".