The Partisan Ranger Act was passed on April 21, 1862, by the Confederate Congress. It was intended as a stimulus for recruitment of irregulars for service into the Confederate Army during the American
Recruitment broadside for Partisan Rangers
A partisan is a member of a domestic irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation through some form of insurgent activity.
Simone Segouin, a French partisan credited with capturing 25 German soldiers in the Chartres area, poses with an MP 40 submachine gun, 23 August 1944
Civilians being shot at in Kondomari, 1941
EAM/ELAS partisans in 1944
Rescue of Allied airmen by Yugoslav Partisans, Otočac 1943