guerilla

See also: Guerilla and guérilla

English

Etymology

Compare French guérilla and German Guerilla.

Noun

guerilla (plural guerillas)

Obsolete spelling of guerrilla, now a misspelling.
- 1819, Sydney Smith, “The Game Laws”, in Edinburgh Review:
  Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas;—an internecive war between the gamekeepers and marauders of game;—the whole country flung into brawls and convulsions, for the unjust and exorbitant pleasures of country gentlemen.
- c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales‎^[1], London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62
- 1873, M. A. Avery, “The Guerillas.—Death of Major Hunter.”, in The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War‎^[2], Springfield, Mass.: W. J. Holland and Company, →OCLC
- 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott^[3]
- 1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “England, My England”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published 24 October 1922, →OCLC, page 23:
  From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls.
- 1938 August 24 [1938 August 21], “Japanese Round Up Guerillas”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[4], volume CCVIII, number 3707, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 4:
  At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.
- 1947, Yang Shuo, “Purge by Fire”, in Chi-chen Wang, editor, Stories of China at War‎^[5], London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 71:
  He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside. […]
  "Comrades," he said, "we are all guerilla soldiers who have joined hands to protect our own people, not to oppress them.
- 1949, Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland
- 1980, Konrad Ege, “U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan”, in CounterSpy‎^[6], volume 4, number 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:
  KYODO also states that, according to Indian intelligence sources, "the guerillas were sent from their training bases around Khasgar in Xingjiang^{[sic – meaning Xinjiang]} Province [in China] to the sensitive areas bordering Afghanistan".
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:guerilla.