Irregular Military - Examples of Irregular Military

Examples of Irregular Military

See also: List of guerrillas
  • Bands (Italian Army irregulars)
  • Bashi-bazouk — Irregular mounted mercenary in the Ottoman Empire
  • Berserkers
  • Camisards — Huguenot insurgency in the beginning of the 17th century in the Cevennes mountains
  • Commando
  • Filibuster (military)
  • Hajduks— bandits and irregulars in and against the Ottoman Empire, but found amongst military ranks in Hungary and Poland-Lithuania.
  • Klephts — Greek guerrilla fighters in Ottoman Greece
  • Legion of Frontiersmen — An irregular quasi-military organization that proliferated throughout the British Empire prior to World War I
  • Makhnovshchina — Ukrainian anarchist army that fought both the White Armies and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
  • Minutemen — American irregular troops during the American Revolution
  • Pandurs — Habsburg Monarchy 17th and 18th century skirmisher, later evolving in the regular Grenzer.
  • Partisan (military)
  • Pindari — 18th century irregular horsemen in India
  • Private Military Contractors
  • Prussian Landsturm — created by a 21 April 1813 edict of the King of Prussia
  • Raider (piracy)
  • Righteous Army— in Korean history
  • Rough Riders — in the Spanish-American War
  • Viet Cong

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