peasant army
Armed farming force
A peasant army is a military force composed primarily of rural farmers and agricultural laborers rather than professional soldiers or nobility.
Such forces have appeared throughout history during uprisings, revolutions, and wars of liberation: The peasant army marched on the capital.
The term often carries connotations of irregular organization, improvised weapons, and fighting driven by grievance against landowners or ruling classes.
- militiaNon-professional armed force
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- pitchforksPronged agricultural tools
- conscriptsCompulsory military personnel
uprising · French Revolution · serfs · mob · ragtag · common folk · villagers · torches · feudal · feudal lord · insurgents · rabble · levies · farmhands · muster · scythes · angry mob · guerrilla
- Militiascitizen militia, colonial militia, colonial militias, territorial defense, home guard
- Kosciuszko Uprisingscythemen, universal conscription, volunteer corps, Krakow, Warsaw
- Vendee WarsChouannerie, Nantes, Loire, memorial sites, counter-revolution
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Paid, trained military force
standing army · regular army · career soldiers · regulars · legions
peasant armyfeudal lords
Medieval landowning nobility
elite guard · royal guard · knightly order · praetorian guard
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