As a matter of fact out of this very suggestion came the policy of arming the Negroes, the first regiment of whom was recruited under orders issued by General Hunter at Port Royal, South Carolina in 1862.
As the arming of the slave to participate in this war did not generally please the white people who considered the struggle a war between civilized groups, this policy could not offer general relief to the congested contraband camps.
Russia gives notice to France that she is arming to protect her neutrality.
The declarations of the northern powers against the right of England to stop their merchant vessels, and arming to support their rights, are important events.
Is it not the duty of every dame in France to aid in arming a knight when called upon?
Expenses: eighteen livres, to arm three cross-bowmen; twenty livres to the holy clerk; seventy livres for clothing and arming twenty serjeants on foot.
We were arming even now to march to deliver you and our fair cousin Arthur Plantagenet.
No more blithe errands over the mountain to Clovelly and elsewhere, though Jake knew the issue now and itched for the battle, and the vassals of the hill-Rajah under a jubilant Bijah Bixby werearming cap-a-pie.
And you Black Republicans," the Captain cried "have organized your Dutch Wideawakes, and arearming them to resist Americans born.
Who could seriously believe that at that moment of tumult, ere France was even in semblance entirely his, and while all Europe was openly arming against him, he had leisure for the affairs of the negroes?
Under the colour of volunteering, the arming and drilling of the malcontents continued.
Meanwhile Lord Edward, as a military leader, devoted himself to arming and disciplining the people whose grievances he was preparing to redress by force.
The first day they passed in landing arms and ammunition; the second in clothing and arming the natives, of whom great multitudes flocked to their standard, and granting commissions to Irish officers.
They've released Semmel and they are arming themselves.
They have set Semmel free and some of 'em arearming themselves.
What the ancient prophecy foretold--the preparing of war in the last days, the waking up and arming of the nations--we have seen fulfilling before our eyes in this generation.
Political Unrest--the Arming of the Nations Following on closely with the signs in the heavens, there appears also the awakening to national aspirations and rivalries in Europe, out of which has grown the arming of the nations.
The aged statesman answered his own question, saying that it was the arming of the nations, the swift race upon which the powers had then recently entered, to increase their naval and military armaments.
Indeed he seems to think that it ought scarcely to produce any change in the mode of arming or of disposing troops.
While the Castilians were everywherearming in the cause of Philip, the Allies were serving that cause as effectually by their mismanagement.
But the religious, arminghimself with the sign of the cross, and reciting the antiphon, Ecce lignum crucis, managed to gather some of the ripe fruit, which the tree offered.
But the good religious, arming himself with prayer and with the sign of the cross, and repeating that antiphony, Ecce crucem Domini: fugite partes adversæ.
The arming of this battery was a stupendous piece of work.
In fact, there was heard among the Welsh army a low and indistinct murmur, like that of "Bees alarmed and arming in their hives.
Courteously, but frankly, we told them that we were in favor of the war, of emancipation, and of arming the negroes.
The Legislature made a heavy appropriation forarming the State, but practically displaced the Governor, by appointing five loyal commissioners to control the fund and its expenditure.
The armingof the criminal and hooligan classes by this guardian of public safety, which had at first been carried on quietly, was now being done openly and shamelessly, and had reached great proportions.
Disarming of the whole police force, of all officers and also of such soldiers as do not stand on the base of the new order; arming of the people;[39] all soldiers and proletarians who are armed to retain their weapons.
National militia, this classic demand of the bourgeoisie of 1848, appears in Russia from the very beginning as a demand for arming the people, primarily the working class.
This is not because the liberals do not understand the importance of arming the people: absolutism has given them in this respect more than one object lesson.
The differences in the social composition of the Russian revolution are clearly shown in the question of arming the people.
The arming of Minerva introduces her shoulders, head, and feet, Il.
Minerva has them but indirectly assigned to her; and whenarming for war, Apollo never receives them at all.
On the other, the southern clan cherished its band of samurai, arming them with the rifle and drilling them in the manner of Europe, but leaving them always in possession of the samurai's sword.
England was determined that the Miami chieftains should command the valleys of the Wabash and the Maumee, and while breathing forth accents to deceive the credulous, were arming the red men with the instruments of war.
If (as the preamble to the Militia Law states) "a well regulated Militia is essential to the security of this Province," it is equally necessary that the Province should possess the means of arming that Militia.
It certainly appears like an anomaly in our preparations for defence, to expend time and money in improving our Militia, and not provide the means of arming and making them efficient if they should be wanted.
These led the Boers also to arm, and, as happened with the arming and counter-arming of Prussia and Austria in 1866, when each expected an attack from the other, war inevitably followed.
To-night Colonels Hays and Hobart held quite an interesting debate on the policy of arming colored men, and emancipating those belonging to rebels.
He was at one time opposed to arming the negroes; but now that he is satisfied they will fight, he is in favor of using them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
