trainband

1 From Temple Bar to Whitehall gate the trainbands of Middlesex and the Foot Guards were under arms.

2 Would not the trainbands flock by thousands to the standard of the deliverer?

3 Four thousand men of the trainbands were actually assembled under his command.

4 The fugitive's life was saved by a company of the trainbands; and he was carried before the Lord Mayor.

5 At every town along the road the trainbands of the neighbourhood had been mustered under the command of the principal gentry.

6 The governor and his guests go forth, like men bound upon some grave business, to inspect the trainbands of the town.

7 Some of them, I knew, belonged to the trainband and were going off to get their weapons.

8 Next to the church, on the other side of Cross Highway was an empty field where the trainband practiced drilling.

9 The difference therefore between a Lacedaemonian phalanx and any other phalanx was long as great as the difference between a regiment of the French household troops and a regiment of the London trainbands.

10 I hoped they weren’t trying to get the trainband organized to fight the British.

11 King William's commission doubtless had its weight, but the king was three thousand miles away across the seas, and Captain Wadsworth and his trainbands were unpleasantly near.

12 The planters stayed at home and attended to their business, the trainbands were vigilant, the servant and slave laws were construed with a harshness unknown at other seasons of the year.

13 The garrison consisted only of the Gloucestershire trainbands.

14 “Sir, some of the trainband fired on them from a house just down the road. The Redcoats killed them all and burned Starr’s house.”

15 On the east, the trainbands of Wiltshire had mustered under the command of Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

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17 At noon of on autumnal day, more than two centuries ago, the English colors were displayed by the standard-bearer of the Salem trainband, which had mustered for martial exercise under the orders of John Endicott.

18 The trainbands of the City volunteered to march wherever their services might be required.

19 The trainbands were a militia, recruited from the middle and lower classes, serving gratis, which in Elizabeth's reign furnished, on the approach of the Armada, one hundred and eighty-five thousand foot-soldiers and forty thousand horse.

20 He even ventured to land in Northumberland, and burned many houses before the trainbands could be collected to oppose him.

1 民兵

Minuteman militiaman

2 民兵队

posse

3 民团

posse