| The US also reportedly fired tank shells into hotels being used as safe houses by Mahdi Army militiamen. |
| Ripple firecracker detonations erupted from the rise overlooking the barracks as the militiamen opened fire. |
| Washington's Continentals always had to be reinforced by summertime recruits or militiamen before they could take the field. |
| The British retreat to Boston was the high-water mark for American militiamen during the war. |
| One of the problems, he noted, was that the militiamen were mediocre and undisciplined. |
| The prisoners were also made to cook and wash for the militiamen, who are mostly from nomadic tribes and who travel by horse and camel. |
