Sentences with phrase «warfare armed confrontation»
The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.
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Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.
Those who are so enamored of mass gun confiscation should try out their schemes in places like Washington DC, Detroit and Chicago, and see how many armed confrontations will result in which police shoot citizens, citizens shoot police, and the result is open warfare and a total breakdown of law enforcement.