The Tories, with their prisoner, got on board their boats; but they had not pushed very far from the shore, before the militiamenwere firing at them again.
Captain Huddy was hurried away to the boats in which the Tories had arrived; but the militiamen were in hot pursuit, and a running fight took place between them and the Tories, in which six of the latter were killed.
The forces of the Whigs or patriots in these encounters were almost always composed of the militiamen of the State, who had not joined the regular army, but who had enlisted for the purpose of defending their own homes and farms.
Militiamen followed her, shot at Jim, the oldest of the boys at home, fourteen, and drove him into the brush.
Probably this was the reason that inspired the young Missouri militiamen who were stationed at Harrisonville to intrude on the colonel’s party.
Anxious to see who their prisoners were, the militiamen exposed themselves imprudently, and it cost them six.
That day my persistent pistol practice showed its worth when one of the militiamen fell, 71 yards away, actual measure.
With the Civil War less than two years off, it is well to look ahead and see how many of these militiamen rendered service in the hour of their country's need.
By some process of magic, of patriotic magic, when the alarm of war sounded, the twelve hundred militiamen multiplied themselves into no less than seven thousand five hundred volunteers.
No troops were ever more heartily welcomed than were the Massachusetts militiamen by the regulars of the garrison.
The answer, it is admitted, was far from satisfactory to the British government and the conduct of the militiamen was far from professional; but thousands of Americans got a taste, a strong taste, of actual fighting in the field.
Not once did an army ofmilitiamen overcome an equal number of British regulars in an open trial by battle.
It transformed the militiamen who had assembled near Boston, after the battle of Lexington, into a Continental army and selected Washington as commander-in-chief.
They saw what American militiamen could do under favorable circumstances and they watched British regulars operating on American soil.
Many militiamen were in the mountains, but their communications had been cut off.
Before leaving Nashville, Jackson had conferred with Governor Willie Blount about sending a brigade of mounted Tennessee militiamen under Brigadier General John Coffee to join him in Mobile.
The blue-coated American regulars anchored one end of the line and Coffee’s militiamen the other.
Now he sent urgent word for the militiamen to come without delay!
These militiamen were not soldiers in the European definition of the word.
IV While William Carroll and his men were plying their way down the Mississippi, John Coffee and his mounted militiamen were making their way toward Sandy Creek.
Praise was showered upon the Tennesseans, particularly the Coffee militiamen who, from the inception of the campaign, had carried the heaviest burden of battle among the American troops.
Two thousand soldiers were in the middle column, while the 4,000 on the British right were to storm Coffee’s militiamen and attack Jackson’s rear.
Enroute the militiamen were cheered when they overtook a New Orleans-bound keelboat laden with muskets.
They're likemilitiamen criticizing soldiers under fire.
The next morning Mrs. Temple looked out of her window and saw the militiamen on the lawn.
The wretched militiamen found that their machine-guns had been tampered with, and that the cartridges from the captured magazines did not fit their rifles.
Many militia officers were murdered, and many militiamen were executed by drumhead court martial.
At the first cross-street I noticed that the City Militiamen were mounted, and armed with revolvers in bright new holsters; a little group of people stood silently staring at them.
We have seen that he had six hundred militiamen capable of acting outside the ramparts.
Starvation and disease caused loud murmurings, and after one or two minor victories had been won the militiamen took it into their heads to go back home.
During the months that followed, the intrepid leader was compelled to fight two foes--his insubordinate militiamen and the Creeks.
He knew the temper of the militiamen too, and seems to have specially feared that they would be lulled into a dangerous feeling of security by delay and by repeated false alarms.
Pushmatahaw, the Choctaw warrior, with his followers accompanied the expedition, and a small force of militiamen completed the little army.
Some of the militiamen and their officers may be inclined to play tricks, and to tease us, but the best way to stop them is to pay no attention to them at all.
You send militiamen and shoot down our organizers, and we are helpless.
Brant was in command of the detachment of savages, and, realizing from past experience the militiamen would come rather heedlessly through the forest, he planned an ambuscade.
The militiamen were utterly untrained in border warfare, and their officers had had little experience, but the regular troops were well used to Indian campaigns.
As themilitiamen advanced, the redskins broke into several bands, and, appearing to be panic-stricken, fled down a long gulley.
The white man only had a dozen militiamen to guard him.
The militiamen took the hint and turning about made off into the forest as fast as their legs would carry them.
A second volley followed the first, the militiamen could see no foe, while many of their comrades were soon writhing upon the ground in mortal agony.
They were securely bound and led off to a little blockhouse, where, as day dawned they found, to their chagrin, that their captors were seven militiamen of the American army.
On the next day an Indian trail was discovered, so Harmar ordered one hundred and fifty militiamen and thirty regulars, with their officers, to push on ahead and defeat the hostiles.
Cook's detectives reported these facts to him, adding that the mob was only waiting for him to retire, when they would have their victims placed under arrest, and placed in charge of militiamen who were in full sympathy with the mob.
Murphy to divide them into small squads and at once scour the town, arresting any group of three or more men they might find, no matter, militiamen or civilians.
There were twenty-two militiamen and thirty regulars, the latter under charge of a lieutenant whose name has not been preserved.
There were of more or less trained militiamen nearly six hundred.
The flights to Canada multiplied; our volunteer militiamen fell away from the drills and patrols.
The French militiamen immediately ran up a white flag.
Instead of seeing a great body of men debouch from the fort, preceded by a brilliant staff, out marched a few ragged militiamen headed by Captain Helm, with one solitary private.
A week later a small company of militiamen arrived from Virginia, and several minor expeditions were now made against the Shawnese upon their own soil.
When Boone arrived upon the Clinch he found that Russell and most of the other militiamen of the district had departed upon the campaign.
Boone does not appear to have taken part in these operations, his militiamen probably being needed for home protection.
In August Colonel Bowman arrived with a hundred militiamen from the Virginia frontier.
Both residents and visiting militiamen were allotted into companies, which were to relieve each other at salt-making until sufficient was manufactured to last the several stations for a year.
That was the signal for the Barbados militiamen to advance from the landward side of the breastwork, to provide defensive cover.
Having drained their flask of kill- devil, the militiamen were grumbling nervously as they waited in a line down the trench, backs to the newly turned earth.
There were shouts from the militiamen behind him, warning him to come down, but he did not hear, did not want to hear.
There were shouts as several of the wounded militiamen were disarmed.
Whittington pointed toward the crowd of militiamen at the foot of the rise.
A blaze of musket fire flared from a position just north of the breastwork, and a phalanx of whooping and yelling militiamen opened a charge down the north side of the beach.
The shouting had died down now, as strings of captured militiamen were being assembled and placed under guard.
The approaching Barbados militiamen had assumed they were being fired on from the breastwork.
As the gunners and militiamen threw down their tools and began to bustle in the direction of the liquor, he turned to Katherine and his voice dropped.
The mid-afternoon sun seared the Jamestown emplacement with the full heat of the day, and most of the gunners and militiamen were now shirtless and complaining about the need for rest.
The Barbados militiamenwere there, pulling them up and dragging them back through the surf to the beach.
He was still gripping his flintlock, knuckles white, as the other militiamen dragged him back into the trench.
I was fearful something just like this might happen, what with all these careless militiamen idling about.
Moreover, after the battle--regardless of who won--the soldiers of the fleet would probably help the militiamen hunt down Atiba and his men.
When they emerged at the end of the corridor and into the smoky yard, Spanish militiamen were already rolling back the ordnance to reload.
Now, while the militiamen worked with hammers and drills to finish removing the spikes from the large culverin, the battle had become mostly noise and smoke.
The rays, directed low, were constantly being interrupted by the bodies of the militiamen hurrying back and forth to accomplish some definite task.
Kentucky was asked to furnish a thousand militiamen and Pennsylvania five hundred, and the forces were ordered to come together at Fort Washington, near Cincinnati.
Before the militiamen could emerge in force from their tents, the sentinel line was broken and the red warriors were pouring into the enclosure.
Only three Virginia and sixty-three North Carolina militiamen are anywhere reported as wounded, while none were killed.
The expedition was in command of Captain Eugenio Pourré, and comprised sixty-five militiamen (of whom thirty were Spaniards) and sixty Indians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "militiamen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
