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n. (plural of partisan English)
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Partisans is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1982. MacLean used portions of the plot from the 1978 film Force 10 from Navarone as the basis of the plot for this novel. MacLean reverted to the theme of World War II, with which he was successful and highly popular in his early career. However, as with many of his later novels, Partisans proved to be less than popular with his long-time fans.
Usage examples of "partisans".
Acting under him, were Marion, Lee, the Hamptons, Taylor, Horry, Mayham, and others of those active partisans who had kept alive the war from the beginning.
The men about the rock pit, Partisans who followed the Slaughterman, were calling for a prisoner.
In this school, without question, the swamp and forest partisans of a future day took some of their first and most valuable lessons in war.
It was in this last respect particularly, in being quick to see, and prompt to avail themselves of the happy chance or instrument, that the partisans of the revolution in the southern colonies, under Marion and others, asserted their vast superiority over the invader, and maintained their ground, and obtained their final triumph, in spite of every inequality of arms and numbers.
The dragoons, taken by surprise, turned in flight, and, smiting at every step, the partisans pursued them with fatal earnestness.
Several small, but spirited achievements, of which history condescends to furnish no details, occurred among them, in which, however, the partisans were not always successful.
Without this, the war, prolonged with whatever spirit by the partisans, was not likely, because of their deficient materiel and resources, to reach any decisive results.
It is only intended to insist upon those claims of the partisans, which, unasserted by themselves, have been a little too irreverently dismissed by others.
It contained a woful complaint of the unfair mode of fighting pursued by the partisans, and implored a reinforcement.
Creek, and this at a period, when every ounce of powder, and pound of shot, were worth, to our partisans, their weight in gold.
Watson was considered by the British one of their best partisans, yet never had poor warrior been so worried and harassed, as, with a superior force, he had been by Marion.
Within this line our partisans continually made incursions, keeping the enemy in constant check and apprehension.
The arrival of a British fleet with reinforcements, comprising three fresh regiments from Ireland, enabled Rawdon to despise any attempts, which, with their inferior force, our partisans might make.
Such was always the death of the French when captured by the Partisans, and such were the deaths of the Partisans caught by the French.
When the Spaniard paused, the Frenchman tried to get up, but a boot hammered into his left forearm, breaking the bones, and the pulling began again and the watching Partisans laughed at the squeals of pain as the chain pulled on the broken limb.