Armed with light weapons.
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Examples for "lightly-armed"
Examples for "lightly-armed"
1Assad's forces have increasingly used helicopter gunships and warplanes against the lightly-armed insurgents.
2Roger rode behind him, and was followed by the two lightly-armed men, who were to act as messengers.
3It had been designated a United Nations "safe zone" and was being guarded by 600 lightly-armed Dutch UN soldiers.
4Though vastly superior in a charge, the troopers' horses were ill able to come up with the active steeds of the lightly-armed smugglers.
5It has smashed its way into cities to crush lightly-armed rebels and civilians alike in 11 months of suppression by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
1The darters, and the rest of the light-armed auxiliaries, formed the van.
2The use of the sling by the Persian light-armed is quite certain.
3But the rest, who form the light-armed troops, carry a metal cudgel.
4His light-armed troops and horsemen were drawn up in concealment on either side.
5He then dismissed the meeting, and sent out light-armed cohorts to collect forage.
6It's one thing, after all, to piratize blundering, light-armed merchant ships.
7Already have I despatched fifty light-armed men on fleet Thessalian steeds.
8No wonder they were so light-armed, no wonder so few.
9After his time the Velites are not mentioned, and all the light-armed troop were auxiliaries.
10But Alfonso held his mail-clad battalions firm, and the light-armed Moorish horsemen hesitated to attack.
11A thousand horseman clad in mail, and a still greater number of light-armed, formed his bodyguard.
12The Roman legionaries were supported by numerous light-armed troops, and a powerful body of Mauritanian cavalry.
13The light-armed Irish troop did great things at Crecy, but they were never used at home.
14Such questions might have been put to you by a light-armed mercenary, who argued for pay.
15These "light-armed men" carry the hoplites' shields until the battle, and most of the baggage.
16The fourth class were excluded from all public offices, and served in the army only as light-armed troops.