In a recent interview, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley declared that the People’s Liberation Army had transformed “from a peasant-based infantry army that was very ...

Quispe’s peasant army was equipped with sticks and rifles from the 1932-35 Chaco War against Paraguay, but fought no engagements. Eventually, all his “troops” went home to their villages.

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domrémy, changed the course of the Hundred Years' War by leading France to victory over ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a North Korean army signaler near the tense sea border with the South, Lee So-yeon was given live ammunition and a steel helmet during a 1993 crisis, but soon found herself ...

Zapata, south of the capital, did not have this advantage and, both by preference and necessity, led a genuinely peasant army. The number of Zapatista forces fluctuated according to the ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu accused the Guatemalan army of carrying out the killings. “This is a massacre, and the army is responsible,” Menchu, a Guatemalan Mayan who won the ...

tirelessly organized China’s peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to ...

Pilot Amy Johnson lands after a record flight of 12 days, 15 hours from London to Cape Town and back. 1940 McDonald’s opens ...