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Commando

noun

A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids. Synonym: ranger.

An amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory.

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... shows how George Ransome is compelled to leave his father's farm and take service with the British. He is given the command of a band of scouts as a reward for gallantry, and with these he punishes certain rebels for a piece of rascality, and successfully attacks Botha's commando. Thanks to his knowledge of the veldt he is of signal service to his country, and even ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

... directions which it contains." Some of the most troublesome foreign complications, as often before, first came up for settlement in the Colonial Office. Thus, in March a British force under Sir Harry Smith defeated a commando of Boers at Boomplaatz. Other Boer forces were dispersed. The British flag was hoisted beyond the Orange River and the annexation of that territory to ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson