On December 21, 1850, the Arkansas Legislature finally passed an act to pay for the militia called into service by General Wool.

Rohan's armies were more of a very well trained militia called upon in times of war, with the actual standing army relatively small.

Mubarak's village, Kudum, a tiny place with 200 families in southern Darfur, was overrun last August by members of these militias, called Janjaweed.

Village populations that do not support the Government and enroll their men in a militia called "village guards" are routinely driven out, and many of their houses burned down.

Then Pro-assad militia called "shabiba" entered a building in the neighbourhood, and killed 14 members of a Sunni family.

In free states, Republican militias - called "Wide Awakes" - sided with abolitionists in sometimes violent confrontations with Federal authorities.

Quisling's policies also resulted in the establishment of a permanent militia called Leidangen which, unlike the body he had previously planned, was to be counter-revolutionary.

In some areas, the military trained peasants and organized them into anti-rebel militias, called "rondas".

Syrian army forces, whose numbers were bolstered by the pro-government militias called "Shabeha", accompanied the tanks into Tremseh.

It was well fortified and protected by organized units of Serb militia called Frontiersmen.