Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s.
Ang mga girilya nagpulkas sa usa ka trák nga Hapun, The guerrillas annihilated a truckload of Japanese soldiers.
Gikúut ang impurmir sa mga girilyista, The guerrillas tapped the informer for liquidation.
Nakahunguy ang mga girilya pagsulud sa garisun, The guerrillas were able to sneak into the garrison.
Tastes as good as it smells," he said, heartily, while the mouths of the guerrillas were watering.
The guerrillas seemed rather more fearful than otherwise to see him, but met him with manners that were ranged from respectful by Jeff Hackberry to absolute servility by the others.
The guerrillas came filing in, with an expectant look on their faces.
Shorty was holding down one of the guerrillas who had tried to climb on his back when he was grappling with Hackberry.
He was himself at the moment most interested in the suppression of guerrillas and jayhawkers, against whom sentence of outlawry had just been passed.
Guerrillas and bushwhackers were everywhere and Phillips's command was half-starved.
Somewhat earlier, guerrillas had similarly devastated the Kansas Agency, although not to the same extent.
From that day, the guerrillas were regular Confederate soldiers.
They are also writing me from Kentucky urging me to come back there and clear the guerrillas out of my old field of operations.
After my regiment was mounted and fully equipped, I had little trouble in clearing the country of guerrillas and giving peace to the Union citizens.
The guerrillas easily got out of our way and the rebel residents denied all knowledge of them or of the parties guilty of the soldier's murder.
I accordingly made a money levy upon every prominent harborer or sympathizer of the guerrillas that I could reach, making the assessment against each individual in proportion to his property and support or countenance of the traitors.
The county of Hopkins was one of the strongholds of the guerrillas and their friends; they were numerous, active, and bold.
These bands of guerrillas were mounted on the best horses in the country, stolen from the citizens; they were active and wily, and thoroughly acquainted with the byways and hiding-places; and were supported by vigilant friends on every side.
The guerrillas possessed not a single tent, and made no arrangements for a commissariat, yet they never wanted for a friendly roof to shelter them and were bountifully supplied with cooked rations.
Shoot down the banded scoundrels as guerrillas or as recruits for the rebel army.
Guerrillas he suppressed remorselessly, hunting them down like so many wild beasts.
Near the end of August, Sherman wrote to Grant as follows: "The guerrillas have destroyed several bridges over Wolf Creek; one at Raleigh, on the road by which I had prescribed trade and travel to and from the city.
If the people do not want their horses and corn taken, they must organize and repress all guerrillas or hostile bands in their neighborhood.
By a hard ride he saved his uncle and family from slaughter by the guerrillas of Cos, and he reached Goliad just a few minutes too late to take part in the capture of the Mexican force.
Guerrillas of Cos came an hour later, and burned the house to the ground.
They thought I was a good 'Confed,' and I found out that they are organized into a band to arrest suspicious characters, keep things in order in this section of the county and even turn guerrillas when they are wanted.
Now there came the clatter of hoofs, like a stampede, and the guerrillas seemed to be engaged in a wild scramble to get away.
But wunst in a while a band o' guerrillas went through like a suddint wind-storm, an' I tell ye they made things whurl while they war about it.
The guerrillas an' bushwhackers tuk it out on the old hotel, sure!
Aren't there guerrillas in the Ancarta vicinity for you to work with?
The guerrillas had done the best job of their careers.
And most guerrillas aren't very experienced in their work; a small band of men lost in the woods can't do much damage.
Give it another hundred and fifty years and the guerrillas couldn't exist, for simple lack of any place to hide and to live independently.
I added the dynamite because it sounded like the sort of thing guerrillas ought to have, and Hollerith didn't seem to mind.
I had to work against a group of guerrillas who were even more democratic, from all I'd heard, and who seemed to have a great deal of common, ordinary brains.
But guerrillasand contraband traders infested the country around, making the city a dangerous haunt of traitors from the border-land.
Colonel Dupin still does not come, and it might be--because the guerrillas have stopped him.
The Vera Cruz highway clung to the mountain side, but the Contra Guerrillas took a venturesome little bridle path which dropped abruptly down into the rich valley of a thousand or more feet below.
Asked if he knew anything more of the prisoner, witness could not swear for certain, except that he recognized in the American one of the guerrillas who had ambushed and slain Captain Maurel near Tampico.
Jacqueline had seen nothing of the fray, but now she saw Fra Diavolo's Contra Guerrillas skulking away and the sardonic captain himself fuming in ignoble soreness on his back.
Guerrillas of course punished the towns later, but Maximilian would not be induced to organize a native army, and thirty thousand French could not garrison fifteen thousand leagues.
Three days later Dupin and his Contra Guerrillas met her in the Tierra Caliente, and offered to join her French cavalry escort.
The so-called contra guerrillas were villainous wretches, at the gentlest estimate.
The colonel of Contra Guerrillas frowned a grim approval for his scout's handiwork of battered skulls.
But he was well intrenched, and as the guerrillas were also, he lighted his pipe and smoked reflectively.
The guerrillas got back to cover quickly enough, and so did Don Tiburcio, grinning over his stratagem.
She heard Rodrigo bellowing forth an order, and she saw five or six guerrillas rise out of the cacti and spring toward her.
We soon found the country full of guerrillas and squads of soldiers, that had become routed during the fight.
I was ordered to kill all the guerrillas that I could find, bring in all that I had strong suspicions were guerrillas, and capture all the straggling rebel soldiers and arms that I could find.
I then turned to go back to Memphis, but I found that a squad of guerrillas had got between me and the city.
As soon as the guerrillas discovered that we were charging on them, they fled to the woods where I had ordered the Captain to deploy his men, and they all escaped but one.
On our way back to Bolivar, I learned the reason why we did not find any more guerrillas at Perry's.
Less formal than these, and more provocative of bitter feeling, were the attacks of guerrillas along the central frontier,--chiefly the Missouri border and eastern Kansas.
In western Missouri, loyal unionists were not safe outside the federal lines; here the guerrillas came and went at pleasure; and here, about August 18, Quantrill assembled a band of some three hundred men for a foray into Kansas.
All through the operations of the Guerrillas he was one of the most daring in the band.
The volleys of revolver bullets fired by the Guerrillas proved awfully destructive to their opponents.
Shepherd had suddenly disappeared from Chaplin; several of the old Guerrillas had also gone away, and Frank and Jesse James, too, had quietly departed from that region of country.
The people saw the sombre black flag, and knew that the Guerrillas were upon them.
Moving out from their camp on the Blackwater, one day, the Guerrillas fell into an ambuscade, and several received wounds.
From Paris the Guerrillas proceeded to Birmingham, and crossed the Tennessee river.
The force of the Guerrillas under command of Todd numbered more than two hundred men, and as both were determined, a desperate fight ensued.
They had been the friends and entertainers of Quantrell, Marion, Sue Mundy, and others of the Guerrillas in the closing days of the war.
The Guerrillas and other rough characters about Carmen had a very respectful manner toward such persons.
The Guerrillas were forced to seek shelter in the woods.
The lurid lightning of the old bitterness flashed athwart their heavens, and the ex-Guerrillas were pursued and hunted, like felons, beyond the pale of hope or pardon.
At any rate, the formal submission of the Guerrillas was made.
Without ceremony the Guerrillas shot them as they would have shot squirrels from a forest tree, and jested of the deed as they might have jested over the fall of wild beasts.
Reaching the Michigan house the guerrillas took the stage horses and robbed the men who kept the station.
The news that a band of armed guerrillas was scouring the country was dispatched by courier to Central City, and all the camps in that vicinity were notified.
The next day Halliman was captured at the Nineteen-mile ranch, and they kept picking up the guerrillas one or two at a time until the Thirty-nine-mile ranch was reached.
Volckmann's northern Luzon guerrillas accomplished the purposes of practically a front line division.
MacArthur stated, "The guerrillas had been busy ever since receiving my orders 'to open up!
We learned that guerrillas in the proper environment and in cooperation with friendly natives can harass an enemy for many months and gain much valuable time and information.
The Tiger was quite amazed and chagrined to find his veteran troops both surrounded and beaten by guerrillas in the northern Mountain Province.
Thirty months later, these same guerrillas of the 14th Inf.
It proved to be an alarm caused by a party ofguerrillas making a dash upon our foraging train, capturing some seventy mules, then skedaddling before the escort could come up.
All they did was to hunt guerrillas who were very thick and very wicked.
A couple of our boys crossed the river in a dug-out for fresh meat this evening, but were sent back by guerrillaswho chased them.
While out on the hills, in the thicket, a party of guerrillas fired into our cavalry, wounding a captain about half a mile from here.
Went to graze in a different direction this morning, being warned by citizen that guerrillas were prowling around to pick up our horses where we went before.
Forty guerrillas seen in the vicinity this morning.
The citizen that led the guerrillas in (for they are nothing else) was unceremoniously hung by the citizens of the place.
Twenty-six guerrillas and conscripters are all he can hear of.
The 66th Indiana were stationed and reported guerrillas very troublesome.
A band of Spanish guerrillas just came up and set fire all around.
A battle royal ensued between my workmen and the guerrillas, and the guerrillas received the worst of the encounter and were forced to retreat, with three men wounded and one man dead.
He yelled to his companions, and all of the guerrillas came up at topmost speed.
While I was deliberating, a body of Spanish guerrillas came along and burned down two of my largest storehouses and threatened my wife with violence.
They were a hearty, bold-looking set of men, handsomely uniformed and thoroughly armed, presenting a decided contrast to the dirty guerrillas we had previously encountered.
But the guerrillas made a great mistake; they thought they were only dealing with two boys, and were consequently careless and off their guard.
There was a flash, a report, and the leader of the guerrillas dropped from his horse.
Even as early in the war as this, those roving bands of guerrillas which afterward proved such a curse to the border States began to appear.
Everywhere else the like banditti would be summarily treated; and these would-be guerrillas here are evidences of the uttermost social dissolution.
I hope that Mr. Lincoln is as earnest in his efforts to destroy Lee's army and to put an end to the guerrillas who rob to the right and to the left, and under the nose of the supreme military authorities.
Lee menacing, going we know not where; guerrillas in the rear of our army, at the gates--literally and geographically at the gates of Alexandria and of Washington.
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