partizan
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This man was a decided partizan of the French parliaments, and well known to be an inveterate enemy of the Jesuits.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
The latter was a Prussian partizan who, having distinguished himself after Jena, was now striving to use the Austrian war in order to arouse the North Germans.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Most disquieting of all, there were movements both of intellectual agitation and of active partizan warfare in Prussia that presaged a speedy convalescence on her part.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
Santa Anna immediately replied in the following strain to the missive of his partizan: General Santa Anna, commander-in-chief of the Liberating Army, to General Almonte, minister of war of the republic of Mexico.
The regular forces pursued his partizan warriors; and we next hear of him at Oaxaca, where he took possession of the town after a brief resistance.
