militiaman
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“None of us will be afraid when the moment comes to defend our country from foreign aggression,” said Orlando López, 54, a grandfather and proud militiaman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025
The video was allegedly smuggled out of Syria by a pro-government militiaman who gave it to a pair of University of Amsterdam researchers, apparently in hopes it would help him get asylum outside Syria.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Another video captured a militiaman recounting a purported conversation with police.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021
When the militiaman called again, Laqees reluctantly agreed to a meeting.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
As they closed in, a Virginia militiaman galloped all night to warn Jefferson.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
He added that he has hundreds of militiamen under his command, contradicting observers who put the total number of fighters across the five groups at around 200.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Later he tried to build civil society in war-torn Iraq and Libya and was briefly kidnapped by Tuareg militiamen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
It recreates the war through the perspectives of Continental soldiers, militiamen, British officers, and American Loyalists, as well as Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German mercenaries and French and Spanish allies.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
They would be militiamen, not soldiers, they were told.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
Undisciplined, with no real uniforms and few experienced officers, the army of about 15,000 militiamen Washington inherited was little more than a disorganized mob.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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