Examples of 'peasant army' in a sentence

peasant army: A military force composed mostly of ordinary citizens or peasants, often used in historical contexts

The peasant army advances in almost total silence.

Coming here trying to teach me how to lead a peasant army.

In a peasant army the army chief has a more passive role.

I invented the peasant army.

You tell your peasant army anybody who resists me will die.

Dudley offered Robert Kett a pardon on the condition that the peasant army disband at once.

But today the peasant army and the conditions that spawned it are gone.

And you have to remember that the Red Army was a peasant army.

Mao then led a small peasant army against the Kuomintang and the landlords of Hunan.

Thousands of men to deal with this extremely well-organized peasant army with.

However, in the long run the peasant army was too poorly armed and too undisciplined.

I have never heard … Coming here trying to teach me how to lead a peasant army.

The revolt is over, the peasant army is beaten.

However, the peasant army soon overwhelmed the remnants of the king 's men.

That difference was the People 's Liberation Army, the peasant army controlled by the Chinese Stalinists.

Meaning of "peasant army"