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Definition of Band of Partisans

1. Noun. An extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Band Of Partisans

Literary usage of Band of Partisans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1889)
"... and with this view created a third party.9 Gathering together a band of partisans, and giving himself out for the protector of the Highlanders, ..."

2. History of South Carolina by Yates Snowden, Henry Gardner Cutler, Lewis Publishing Company (1920)
"... where he again gathered a small band of partisans and rangers for the purpose of striking at any opening in the British forces or defences, and in July, ..."

3. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1892)
"Gathering a band of partisans, and giving himself out as the head of the Highlanders, Pisistratus contrived the following stratagem to help on his cause. ..."

4. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1885)
"Gathering a band of partisans, and giving himself out as the head of the Highlanders, Pisistratus contrived the following stratagem to help on his cause. ..."

5. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography by Eugene Schuyler (1884)
"... apparently engaged with some of his friends in marauding on his own account, and his band of partisans soon became well known through the whole region. ..."

6. Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea: A by Ida Carleton Thallon (1914)
"... formed the project of making himself tyrant, and with this view created a third party. Gathering together a band of partisans, and giving ..."

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