The soldiers cresting the western hills into the river valley were mostly on foot, but armed with heavy bows and swords that glinted in the sunlight.

Are you telling me that if soldiers come against you armed only with swords, you will burn them with clingfire?

They were referred to as "clubmen" - quite literally, untrained soldiers armed only with clubs and billhooks.

Inside, there were probably twenty more soldiers, plus policemen, out of uniform perhaps, but certainly armed.

Prior to the patrol in the Nad e'Ali area of central Helmand, Crook's rifle had been confiscated but the soldier had armed himself with a bayonet and two hand grenades.

At the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kinshasa, Zimbabwean soldiers get on the elevators on one floor, Namibians on another, and Angolans on yet another, all wearing different uniforms, but heavily armed with guns and explosives.

With the rising of the sun, the soldiers were able to see that the Peasants were a disorganized rabble, badly led and impossibly armed.

The soldiers armed the ship with five .50-caliber heavy machine guns on improvised mounts.

All their soldiers were well armed, the archers and musketeers with their quilted tunics and the shieldmen with their swords and poignards in their girdles.

The two other Marine vehicles screeched to a halt, and soldiers armed with M-16 rifles deployed rapidly.