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Guerrilla warfare facts for kids
A guerrilla is a civilian who attacks a regular army. When civilians attack civilians, it is usually called terrorism. When two or more armies (representing countries) attack each other, this is a war.
Guerrilla warfare is a war tactic in which people (Spanish: guerrilleros) fight against an organized army. Guerrilla warfare is sometimes practiced in places where a regular army has difficulty, such as mountains, forests, or jungles. Usually, this army is invading a territory.
Guerrilla is a word of Spanish origin. It means "little war". This war tactic was used on the British by the Native Americans. The natives had an advantage because they used Guerrilla warfare. This war tactic was also used on the Americans during the Vietnamese War.
Images for kids
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Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War in South Africa
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Female Soviet partisans operating under Sydir Kovpak in German-occupied Ukraine
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Sebastiaan Vrancx and Jan Brueghel the Elder's painting depicts "An assault on a convoy" during the Dutch Revolt - effectively an instance of guerrilla warfare, though the term did not yet exist.
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Mass shootings of Vendée royalist rebels in western France, 1793
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, showing Spanish resisters being executed by Napoleon's troops during the Peninsular War.
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Polish guerrillas from Batalion Zośka dressed in stolen German uniforms and armed with stolen weapons, fighting in the Warsaw Uprising.
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A Viet Cong base camp being burned, My Tho, South Vietnam, 1968
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A Tuareg rebel fighter in northern Niger, 2008