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unusual facts about armed force



West Nile Bank Front

The West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) was a rebel armed force in Uganda under the command of Juma Oris.


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121 BC

He gathers an armed force of Senators and their supporters to confront Gaius Gracchus.

Azucena Villaflor

That night, Azucena Villaflor was taken by armed force from her home in Villa Dominico, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires.

Enlisted rank

In the British Armed Forces and the armed force of other Commonwealth countries (except Canada), the equivalent term in respect of armies and air forces is Other Rank (or OR for short), while navies use the term rating.

Ethiopian military titles

Fitawrari (ፊትአውራሪ, Commander of the Vanguard), a military title meaning commander of the vanguard of a traditional Ethiopian armed force.

Dejazmach (ደጅአዝማች, "Commander or general of the Gate") a military title meaning commander of the central body of a traditional Ethiopian armed force.

Frits Schuitema

In 1978, Schuitema was taken hostage in San Salvador, along with two British bankers and a Japanese businessman, by a leftist guerilla group known as the Armed Force of National Resistance (FARN).

Georgios Kartalis

EKKA became the third major resistance group after the communist-led Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the republican National Republican Greek League (EDES), with its own armed force, named after the famed 5/42 Evzone Regiment, being established on 20 April 1943.

Hajib Shakarbar

Both the Chaudhari and the Nawwab opposed his idea on grounds that Raja Sripal Singh of Narhar is a very uncompromising man and would not permit him to work in that state, especially so if he went there with the size of an armed force that he had with him.

Hugh de Puiset

Lastly, the bishop's nephew Hugh IV de Puiset, who was Count of Bar in France, brought an armed force to Hartlepool, supposedly to help defend Hugh, but King Henry feared that this was an attempt to aid the rebellion of the Young King.

Li Hongzhang

Li was impressed with the necessity of strengthening the empire, and while Viceroy of Zhili he raised a large well-drilled and well-armed force, and spent vast sums both in fortifying Port Arthur and the Taku forts and in increasing the navy.

Manshiet el Bakry Hospital

“The government allocates 3.6 percent of the national budget for health care, while the repressive Ministry of Interior funds an armed force of 1.4 million police,” according to veteran reporter Reese Erlich.