The country, sparsely settled, through which the railroad ran seemed especially fitted for their guerrilla warfare, to say nothing of the poor state of the road-bed, which at places actually made the passage dangerous.
Vague reports had reached Jack before he had left on his trip, of the uprising of the people, and of the guerrilla warfare being carried on by the straggling armies of the North and South.
He found the bold guerrilla snugly tucked in bed, with two pistols lying on a chair near by.
One of the Fighting Scouts=: Guerrilla Warfare in South Africa.
Jack took the salute of a Portuguese guerrilla sentry marching sedately to and fro before a huge door, and that too of a Spaniard, one also of the band under Tom's command.
Other guerrilla forces composed of Spaniards had thought to do well, and had faced French cavalry; but they had broken at the critical moment, and had been sabred to a man.
It was not the guerrilla that was uttering that cry; it was the yell of the Indian warrior.
During the interval of inaction that followed, I was cool enough to reflect upon the demand which the guerrilla leader had made--the surrender of my person.
The steep hill proved too heavy for our horses; and before we could reach its summit, the main body of the guerrilla had mounted and scampered off into the darkness.
In the head-quarters of the guerrilla they found many prisoners, Yankees and Ayankieados--among others, that rare diplomatist Don Ramon de Vargas.
Another chorus of vivas announced that the guerrilla captain had finished his oration, and that the attack was about to be made.
Holding a sort of irresponsible office as the chief of what was less a patriotic guerrilla than a band of brigands, it was difficult to tell what such a monster might or might not attempt.
He had been all around the summit without seeing aught, and had returned to satisfy himself that the guerrilla were still quiet.
The moon was behind us, for the guerrilla was on the western side of the mesa.
Suppressed in one place, they appeared in another, waging a guerrilla warfare like that against Napoleon.
In Navarre, the guerrillachief known as el Trapense committed revolting excesses.
Frank hastily reloaded his musket, and they waited, impatiently, for nearly an hour, for the other guerrilla to show himself, but the woods remained as silent as death.
The majority of guerrilla leaders have always been severely tactical in their thinking.
He had a theory of guerrillawarfare which he wanted to test.
What was the total record of these two men alone in all this period of guerrilla fighting?
He was shot three times in one fight in guerrilla days, and probably few bad men ever carried off more lead than he.
He was eighteen years of age when he first saw the West as a fighting man under Jim Lane, of Free Soil fame, in the guerrilla days of Kansas before the civil war.
Hathaway was wounded in the head by a musket ball and was unconscious for several hours but recovered and continued his guerrilla warfare until the last loyal Briton made good his retreat across the great heron pond.
If this position is sound we are pre-eminently safe for we have some half dozen distinct organizations besides remnants of old ones and guerrilla squads that plunder from each.
They received little support from the country in their guerrilla warfare on the Land Conference findings.
They had told Colonel Guitar of the rapid concentration of the guerrilla bands all through the counties north of the river, and had warned him to be on the lookout for trouble.
The guerrillas do not like me because I denounce guerrilla warfare.
The report of his shot had not died before he shot again and a second guerrilla fell.
I do not believe in guerrilla warfare, but am powerless to prevent it.
The guerrilla bands of Quantrell, Red Jerry and others took to the brush, there to remain hidden until the Federal troops had returned to their several posts.
The wily guerrilla chieftain had fooled him completely.
The new day had hardly begun when the guerrilla hordes poured down on Foster's little army, confident of an easy victory.
The name "Merrill Horse" became a terror to every bushwhacker and guerrillain Missouri.
He is said to be making for Kirksville, where he expects to be joined by the guerrilla bands of northwestern Missouri.
I am well acquainted in the State, and am known to most of the guerrilla leaders.
The remaining guerrilla had no stomach to continue the fight, and wheeled his horse to flee.
Jack made the promise, but was rather doubtful as to the expediency of sparing the life of a guerrilla guilty of murder.
There has been unusual activity among Southern sympathizers, all over the State, yet outside of the guerrilla bands there have been no hostile demonstrations.
The guerrilla General addressed an open-air meeting, which he ordered the Magistrate to attend.
Word reached Maseru that General De Wet, whose guerrilla career was then at the height of its fame, was seriously harassed by Imperial troops in the "Free" State, and that it was feared he would escape through Basuto territory.
He had been captured by United States troops in Kansas as a guerrilla raider and was imprisoned first at Lecompton and then at Tecumseh.
I went to Europe in 1851 to inspect fortifications and study the methods of guerrilla warfare which have been successfully used in the old world.
He was not known to them, as he has been presented to the reader, as the chief actor in the Pottawatomie massacre, but as a bold guerrilla chief, who had lost a son in the Kansas strife.
As guerrilla troops our volunteers are infinitely superior to the Mexicans.
A courier came in this morning with information that El Pinal was occupied by a guerrilla force of one thousand men, and that the train had been at Ojo de Agua two days, resting from the fatigues of the march from Perote.
It is said the Mexicans will resort to the guerrillamode of warfare.
Don't feel alarmed about the observation in the papers in reference to the terrible and atrocious character of guerrilla warfare.
This day I was busily occupied in preparing a memoir on the proper mode of conducting the war, in case Mexico shall pursue the guerrilla system, and obstinately refuse to listen to terms of accommodation.
Of course this was also due, largely, to the guerrilla practice of hiding guns when hard-pressed and actually plunging at once into some make-believe agricultural pursuit.
Later we found out it was the result of an order of Aguinaldo's, faithfully carried out, not to assemble in large commands, but to conduct a systematic guerrilla warfare indefinitely.
The report also appends a copy of the "Army Regulations" under which the insurgent forces were to conduct the guerrilla warfare.
Accordingly, the uniformed insurgent battalions and regiments broke up into small bands which maintained a most persistent guerrilla warfare for years thereafter.
In all things requiring endurance, fortitude, and patient diligence, the guerrilla period has been pre-eminent.
Instead, here he was, alive and kicking, doing a pretty good job of working with a guerrilla gang.
That's one of the advantages of a guerrilla outfit," he said.
The guerrilla network on the entire planet, sir, is under your command.
This would be a condition of affairs which the Mexicans, pursuing their favorite system of guerrilla warfare, would probably prefer to any other.
At last arrangements were completed, terms were made with a small guerrilla band whose chief undertook to see us safely through to Mexico, and on May 27 we began our journey.
Well it was that we had made terms with this little guerrilla company, and we had ample opportunity of testing the truth of the saying, "There is honor among thieves.
In the summer of 1905, the Fedais at large attempted what might be called a guerrilla war on a fairly large scale in the district of Mush, to the west of Lake Van.
It is an absolutely ideal guerrilla stronghold; for men can move from end to end of it unseen, while every movement of the besieger is conspicuous to them on the bare downs that surround it.
Bey and Homer had bent back over the maps, but before they could get back into the details of guerrilla warfare against Colonel Ibrahim and his legionnaires, they were halted by a controversy from without.
The guerrilla goes out to live on the country, to skulk, to war on the weak, and never attack save from ambush, or when the odds clearly are on his side.
It weighs only two pounds, eight ounces, and its cost is so trifling that any guerrilla who wishes one can easily find the money for its purchase.
These tactics, however, admirable as they are universally acknowledged to have been, and even original, were no doubt developed by painful experience in the guerrilla period.
That is to say, finding open opposition impossible, Wallace resumed his guerrilla tactics.
This indeed is by no means unnatural for writers of the cloister, starting from Wallace's outlawry and his guerrilla warfare, and cherishing a full share of the virulent international enmity.
An outlaw, he drew to him friends, free lances, probably enough desperadoes, and waged such guerrilla warfare as was possible against the oppressors of his family and his countrymen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guerrilla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
