partizan
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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.
Anastasius had favored the Greens, but Justinian was a partizan of the Blues.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Richard Edgcumbe had a narrower escape however from the vengeance of Richard III., after the suppression of Buckingham's revolt, in which he was a partizan, being strongly attached to the fortunes of the Red Rose.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
In the beginning of June, 1781, the British garrison at Augusta, Georgia, capitulated to the American forces, under command of General Pickens and Colonel Lee, of the partizan legion.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
It appears then that instead of presiding over the deliberations of the Revisionists as an impartial arbiter, you have been throughout, heart and soul, an eager partizan.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon