{"id":14558,"date":"2016-04-18T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14558"},"modified":"2016-04-18T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:06:39","slug":"brush-up-on-your-history-the-legacy-of-the-sisters-in-arms-historys-famous-female-fighting-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/brush-up-on-your-history-the-legacy-of-the-sisters-in-arms-historys-famous-female-fighting-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush-Up On Your History: The Legacy of the &#8220;Sisters-In-Arms&#8221;; History&#8217;s Famous Female Fighting Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14559\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/polish1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Polish\" width=\"620\" height=\"499\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>\u201cThere have been a number of women\u2019s brigades that have served in wartime. Here are a few of them.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>IT WAS 100<\/strong> years ago this week that a coalition of armed republican factions seized the city of Dublin and proclaimed Ireland\u2019s independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbance, which began on April 24, 1916, would go down in history as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/british-history\/easter-rising\">the Easter Rising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four four days, 12,000 insurgents from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.ie\/info-centre\/defence-forces-history\/foundation-of-the-volunteers\/\">the Irish Volunteers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/british\/easterrising\/profiles\/po14.shtml\">the Irish Citizen Army<\/a>occupied the capital as soldiers and local police battled to regain control. The two rebel armies were joined by a third outfit\u00a0\u2014 an all-female paramilitary unit known as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/the-forgotten-role-of-women-insurgents-in-the-1916-rising-1.1030426\"><em>Cumann na mBan<\/em><\/a> or the \u201cIrish Woman\u2019s Council\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1914 to \u201cadvance the cause of Irish liberty,\u201d the 10,000-strong resistance movement trained young women volunteers with pistols and rifles in preparation for an armed confrontation with the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty of its members served as nurses, messengers and even snipers during the 100-hour rebellion. One of the group\u2019s leaders, a 47-year-old Anglo-Irish aristocrat named<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Constance-Markievicz\">Constance Georgine Markievicz<\/a>, famoulsy\u00a0gunned down an unarmed city constable as fighting raged throughout the city. Dozens of <em>Cumann na mBan <\/em>soldiers were captured in the final hours of the disturbance, which was brutally crushed by British soldiers on April 28; all but 12 were released before the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2016\/04\/18\/sisters-in-arms-historys-famous-and-not-so-famous-female-fighting-forces\/\">Military History Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere have been a number of women\u2019s brigades that have served in wartime. Here are a few of them.\u201d IT WAS 100 years ago this week that a coalition of armed republican factions seized the city of Dublin and proclaimed Ireland\u2019s independence from Great Britain. The disturbance, which began on April 24, 1916, would go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4769,475,1286,5660,1898,1899,3545],"tags":[11270,11271,3823,11272,11273],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}