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He took part in an ill-armed resistance soon followed by defeat of the allies.

They were drunk and ill-armed and seemed barely to understand what had happened.

Finally, they marched against the capital of Calapan with some 1,000 ill-armed foot soldiers.

Probably it would have been impossible to take it with the fifteen thousand ill-armed men who were available.

They were land-hungry, ill-armed hordes too, and the legions could not stop them.

Those, though ill-armed and ill-disciplined, resisted the enemy with desperate courage.

The recruits were ill-armed (many with only slings and scythes) but full of enthusiasm.

One man with a spear could defend the entrance against such ill-armed brutes as the sabertooths.

But his ill-armed ploughmen were overmatched by the heavy cavalry of the nobles.

This was but one of many ill-armed crowds, the "Clubmen" as they were called, that assembled to enforce peace on both parties.

Most will be afoot, and ill-armed and untrained.

They were slaughtered by the ragged ill-armed Ansar."

Father and son never met again after Kit rode out to join King Charles's army with a small band of ill-armed tenants.

The priests of Liart commanded a motley crowd of ill-armed peasantry; these could not stand against disciplined troops.

To deal with these ill-armed units the Russian government had at its disposal an army of 90,000 men under General Ramsay in Poland.

Had they been as ill-armed as Burl's folk, though, visitors from other planets would have been at least as timorous.

Radiating authority, both with his eyes and the black weapon in his left hand, his eyes swept the score of ill-armed soldier guards.

Every manual he'd ever read, every lecture he'd ever heard, said ill-armed aborigines could never break through that much state-of-the-art firepower.

The arms and ammunition of the Abyssinians are greatly inferior to ours, yet they are tremendously effective against the ill-armed barbarians of Europe.

Yet, ill-armed and ill-drilled as they were, they were still strong robust Englishmen, full of native courage and of religious zeal.

Nobody ever spoke of that engagement as a battle; rightly so; it had been a bloody massacre of trained Roman soldiers by ill-armed barbarian Germans.

Although the Pulahans were ill-armed, untrained and outnumbered at times, they nevertheless continued to hit back at the enemy with unrelenting vigor and determination.

Laon, and a few of the more heroic spirits, withdraw to the side of a hill, where, ill-armed and outnumbered, they are slaughtered by their enemies.

The Government militias were hurriedly raised, ill-armed and unimaginative in their military outlook, but they would have been the same if complete political agreement had existed from the start.

It had been Rolf and his men, ill-armed and ignorant of the tricks and hiding places of Blean Forest.