Word: guerrilla
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...speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered and the slayer became the synonym for treachery and ingratitude...
...correspondent Mr. Moore visited the Balkan frontier and saw much of the fighting, which consists of a continual guerrilla warfare among the brigands, who infest the region, and ceaseless war between the Moslems and Trucks. The pictures show the country and many scenes of actual fighting...
...Endicott justice, however, I shall say that, by acknowledging his first letter, and by carefully explaining his real intentions, he has aided to discourage the method of guerrilla warfare so prevalent in this column. That is, I think, a great benefit...
...observed with much satisfaction that the students were beginning to take the initiation in the abolition of college prayer, so far as relates to compulsory attendance. Their neglect to do so hitherto has been very discoursing to me in my guerrilla warfare on the regulations during the past two years, and I had been planning to prepare a memorial, signed by myself alone, for the coming meeting of the overseers. But now comes your note of yesterday, and I gladly yield the floor to those who are better entitled...