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Words related to militia

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  • fyrd

    the militia in Anglo-Saxon England.

  • black hawk war

    a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.

  • black shirt

    a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform

  • creek war

    an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.

  • haganah

    the underground Jewish militia in Palestine (1920–48) that became the national army of Israel after the partition of Palestine in 1948.

  • janissary

    (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
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