List of guerrillas

List of notable guerrillas, ordered by country:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Arabia

Argentina

Austria

B

Bangladesh
  • Kader Siddique in Tangail
  • Hemayet Uddin in Faridpur
  • Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in Narsingdi
  • Afser Uddin in Mymensing
  • Khondoker Baten in Tangail
  • Akber Hussein Miah in Jinaidah
  • Latif Mirza in Sirajganj
  • Cpt. Halim Chowdhary in Manikganj
  • Zia Uddin in Sundarban
  • Kamal uddin Ahmed in Dhaka

Belgium

Bolivia

Brazil

Bulgaria

C

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Chad

Chechnya

Chile

China

Colombia

Cuba

Cyprus

D

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dominican Republic

E

Egypt
  • Inaros - (Egyptian rebel ruler) together with Athenian allies fought for a year and a half in the marshes in north Egypt against Persians.

El Salvador

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

F

Finland

France

Frisia

G

Germany

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea

H

Haiti

I

Republic of India
  • Shivaji Maharaj in

Maharashtra

Indonesia
  • General Sudirman - military commander of Republican Indonesian forces during Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch in the 1940s
  • Abdul Haris Nasution

Iran

Iraq

Irish Republican

Ulster Loyalist

Israel

Italy

J

Japan

K

Korea

Kosovo

Kenya

Kurdistan

L

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Lithuania

M

Malaysia

Mexico

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

N

Namibia

Nepal

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Norway

P

Pakistan

Palestine

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

R

Romania

Rwanda

S

Serbia

Scotland

Sierra Leone

Singapore

South Africa

Soviet Union

Spain

Sudan

Suriname

Syria

T

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkey

U

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States
  • War of 1812
    • Alexander Macomb
    • Benjamin Forsyth
    • Daniel Appling
    • Duncan McArthur
    • John Coffee
    • Philip Reed
    • Azariah C. Flagg
    • Richard Mentor Johnson
    • Jacob Brown
    • Pierre Juzan - a half-breed loyal to the American cause at times called Captain Pierre Jegeat who led a force of Choctaw warriors supporting Andrew Jackson's Campaign of New Orleans by ambushing and harassing the British killing no less than 50 British soldiers. Mentioned in the article of https://www.nchgs.org/html/juzan_family.html
    • Andrew Jackson - conducted a surprise hit-and-run night attack at Villeré Plantation at December 23, 1814 leading to the Battle of New Orleans
    • Thomas Hinds - an American cavalry officer who commanded American dragoons that conducted night hit-and-run attacks against the British in the Campaign of New Orleans. This is mentioned in the history book The War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with 63 General Officers by Bud Hannings page 276.
    • Amasiah Ford - an American private of the 23rd Infantry who was involved in Jacob Brown's plan of a surprise hit-and-run raid/sortie that successfully destroyed three enemy batteries in the Siege of Fort Erie. Mentioned in Staff Ride Handbook for the Niagara Campaigns, 1812-1814 by Richard V. Barbuto pages 202-203
    • Peter B. Porter - an American general who secretly led his force traveling along a hidden road using the cover of the woods in Jacob Brown's plan of the surprise hit-and-run raid/sortie that successfully destroyed three enemy batteries in the Siege of Fort Erie. Mentioned in The War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers by Bud Hannings page 230.
    • James Miller - an American general who secretly led the other American force secretly traveling in a ravine in Jacob Brown's plan of the surprise hit-and-run raid/sortie that successfully destroyed three enemy batteries in the Siege of Fort Erie. Mentioned in The War of 1812: A complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers by Bud Hannings page 230.
    • Richard B. Servant - an American captain who commanded American riflemen. Servant and his riflemen concealed themselves in the woods, near a road to ambush the oncoming British. When they approached, Servant's riflemen commenced a well directed and destructive fire on the head of the invading British column. Later on, Servant's riflemen still concealed conduct a second ambush on 300 approaching French troops allied to the British. Servant's riflemen in ambush gave them a destructive fire, 30 of the French troops fell dead. Then Servant and his riflemen then retreated through the woods. Shown in https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=VAR18130701.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------
    • Martin Aiken - who led teenage soldiers known as Aiken's volunteers that fired behind sheltered cover in the Battle of Plattsburgh
    • John E. Wool - commanded the American force that John C. Rochester was a part of that harassed or ambushed the British from behind cover white retreating in the Battle of Plattsburgh. Mentioned in The Battles of Plattsburgh: September 11, 1814 by Keith A. Herkalo
    • John C. Rochester - an American who alongside his fellow Americans harassed or ambushed the British from behind stone fences or hidden positions in the woods in the Battle of Plattsburgh. Mentioned by Rochester in The Battles of Plattsburgh: September 11, 1814 by Keith A. Herkalo
    • Isaac Lurvey - an American militiaman who alongside his fellow American militiamen fired behind cover and concealment in the Battle of Norwood's Cove
    • John Miller - conducted a hit-and-run like sortie in the Siege of Fort Meigs with mixed results.
    • William Dudley - conducted a hit-and-run attack in the Siege of Fort Meigs with mixed results. William Dudley was killed in this hit-and-run attack while 150 men of his 800 man force reached safely to fort Meigs.
    • William Henry Harrison - came up with concepts and ideas of hit-and-run tactics during the Siege of Fort Meigs
    • Jehiel Dimock - American captain of the First U.S. Rifle Regiment who raided and ambushed British shipping in the Battle of Cranberry Creek.
    • Alexander Smyth - American brigadier general who directed American raids across the Niagara River in the Battle of Frenchman's Creek which produced some good results which had little to no lasting effect.
    • Andrew Holmes - American army officer who led his mounted raiders to victory in the Battle of Longwoods.
    • George McGlassin - American captain who led 50 Americans on a hit and run night raid across the Saranac River disabling some British artillery in the Battle of Plattsburgh
    • Daniel Bissell - American general who used the cover of the woods and tactical maneuvers to successfully raid/destroy the enemy grain and flower in the Battle of Cook's Mills
    • John B. Campbell - American soldier who led a surprise foray in the Battle of the Mississinewa and a controversial incursion in the Raid on Port Dover.
    • Guilford Dudley Young - an American Major with a few hundred American troops conducted a well executed stealthy but controversial guerrilla assault in the Raid on St. Regis.
    • Thomas Pinckney - commanded American riflemen who concealed themselves by the shrubbery on the low ground near the river at Bladensburg bridge. Pinckney's concealed riflemen poured deadly volleys into exposed masses of British troops crossing the bridge. This is mentioned in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 28 edited by Henry Mills Alden page 439.
    • James Wilkinson - an American commander who came up with plans and concepts to use all the militia in hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, and harassment against the British forces in the battle of Bladensburg, but was disapproved by James Madison and James Monroe who wanted to fight a set piece battle which led to disaster. This is mentioned in the history book Neither Victor nor Vanquished: America in the War of 1812 by William Weber page 136.
    • Lodwick Morgan - took the British by surprise and repulsed them in the Battle of Conjocta Creek
    • Thomas C. Hoomes - American militia captain who laid 2 barges to lure the British into an ambush. Mentioned in "Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812" by Stuart L. Butler page 496
    • James Massey - American militia captain who used hit and run engagement like tactics to harass the enemy. Mentioned in The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815 by William Matthew Marine in page 55
    • Ricahrd Lawson - an American militia captain who commanded a company of militia from Princess Anne County who concealed themselves behind a benign sand hill and ambushed an unsuspecting British naval platoon of two lieutenants, 16 sailors, and 8 marines. Three British marines were killed while the rest of the British platoon are captured along with wounded. No casualties on the American militia. Mentioned in The War of 1812: A complete chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers by Bud Hannings. Page. 138 and the document Collection of the official accounts, in detail, of all the battles fought by sea and land, between the navy and army of the united states and the navy and army of great britain, during the years 1812, 13, 14, & 15 by Herman Allen Fay page 115.
    • Regiment of Riflemen
    • Melancthon Taylor Woolsey - American naval officer who prepared an effective ambush against the British in concert with Daniel Appling in the Battle of Big Sandy Creek.
    • Otway Burns - American privateer who would later become a North Carolina State Senator
    • Thomas Boyle - one of the most successful Baltimore privateerss who conducted unconventional incursions at sea capturing British shipping and bringing them back to the United States.
    • David Porter (naval officer) - American naval officer whose usual tactic was to raise British colors to surprise and capture British ships.
    • Jesse Elliot - American naval officer who commanded a hit and run raid that successfully captured HMS Caledonia and successfully destroyed HMS Detroit.
    • John Percival - American naval officer who used a fishing boat Yankee with about 36 armed volunteers hidden in the deck cabin to deceive, surprise/ambush, and successfully capture HMS Eagle
    • John Ordronaux (privateer) - very successful French-born privateer who preyed on British merchant ships, outran about seventeen British warships, and brought back to the US goods worth $250,000 and $300,000.
    • William Josephus Stafford - American privateer who commanded Dolphin and successfully captured many British shipping bringing them back to the United States.
    • Francis Gregory - his exploits of raiding and sabotaging British ships are mentioned in Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong in pages 84-89.
    • James McGowan-ambushed 2 enemy vessels. Bringing them back to American lines. Shown in the book Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong pages 115-116
    • Samuel Dixon - American sailing master who in concert Jehiel Dimock raided and ambushed British shipping in the Battle of Cranberry Creek.
    • William Vauan - alongside Samuel Dixon took part in Francis Gregory's raid and sabotage of a British ship. Mentioned in Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong pages 87-89
    • Thomas King - an American naval prisoner who stealthily hijacks a British ship and sails it back to the American mainland. Mentioned in The War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers By Bud Hannings page 139
    • Benjamin Richards - an American operative who commanded a force of volunteers who operated the vessel Smuggler Catcher who captured seven boats and their cargos in a hit-and-run raid at Ogden's island. Mentioned in Pirates and Robbers: American Privateers on the St. Lawrence River: An Operational History by Gary M. Gibson page 29.
    • Clinton Wright - an American lieutenant who took part in Benjamin Richards's commando hit and run raid at Ogden's island. Mentioned in Pirates and Robbers: American privateers on the St. Lawrence River: An Operational History by Gary M. Gibson page 29
    • Elisha Griffen - a captain of the New York State Militia who executed a hit-and-run raid in the Skirmish at Toussaint Island with limited results. Mentioned in Pirates and Robbers: American privateers on the St. Lawrence River: An Operational History by Gary M. Gibson pages 11-13
    • Ira Baldwin - an American master and pilot of the ship Neptune who conducted a hit-and-run raid on York. Mentioned in Pirates and Robbers: American privateers on the St. Lawrence River: An Operational History by Gary M. Gibson page 18
    • James Kirker
    • Joshua Hailey
    • George R. Roberts
    • John Scudder - an American New York City merchant who led a group of Americans into rigging a schooner Eagle with an explosive booby trap like device that killed eleven British military naval sailors. Mentioned in Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong pages 108-109.
    • Issac Clarke - an American colonel who conducted a guerrilla-like hit and run raid at Missisquoi Bay, Lower Canada at October 12, 1813. Clarke with 100 American troops crossed in boats from Chazy, New York, to Missisquoi Bay. One enemy militiaman was killed and seven wounded. Clarke took 100 prisoners, confiscated livestock, took stores, and returned to Chazy, New York. Mentioned in The A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson pages 342-343. When Missisquoi Bay was under temporary American occupation. Issac Clarke set his base of operations at Missisquoi Bay and set out on another guerrilla-like hit and run raid at March 25, 1814. Colonel Clarke advanced with his detachment into the enemies' country as far as South River within 60-66 miles of Isle-aux Noix. Clarke's raiding force captured the enemies' picket or advance guard, took 60 stands of arms, four oxen, and six horses. Then Colonel Issac Clarke withdrew safely back to his base of operations in Missisquoi Bay. This is mentioned in https://www.northcountrynow.com/news/war-1812-north-country-200-years-later-061005.
    • Arthur Sinclair - an American naval commander who conducted a hit-and-run raid at St. Mary River, Upper Canada capturing a small merchantman, the Mink. After capturing the merchantman in the raid, Sinclair withdrew back to American lines in Michilimackinac. Shown in The A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson. page 498
    • Daniel Turner - in extension of Arthur Sinclair's hit and run raid at St. Mary River. Turner with a detachment of seamen alongside regulars under Andrew Holmes penetrate deeper into enemy territory and destroy buildings, possessions, and burning a schooner. Turner withdraws back to American territory in Michilimackinac reuniting with Arthur Sinclair. Shown in The A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson. page 498
    • Winfield Scott - conducted a hit-and-run raid at York, Upper Canada from July 31, 1813-August 1, 1813. Winfield's American raiding force freed prisoners in jail, made wounded soldiers their captives (on paper), and confiscated British military baggage left there and whatever else they could find. The next day, the American raiders found a hidden bateaux and carted off 400 barrels of food. Winfield and his American force of raiders set fire to barracks, a wood yard, and a storehouse on Gibraltar Point. Winfield and his force of American raiders withdrew safely. Mentioned in The A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson page 622.
    • Isaac Chauncey - an American naval officer who with his flotilla transported Winfield Scott's force of raiders in the successful hit-and-run raid at York, Upper Canada from July 31, 1813-August 1, 1813. Show in A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson page 622.
    • Joshua Barney
    • Joseph Tarbell - conducted a hit-and-run night attack on the British navy with gunboats and riflemen with mixed or limited results. This is mentioned in the history book The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History by Spencer C. Tucker page 123.
  • World War I
    • Theodore Roosevelt Jr. - planned and ordered a successful raid at Cantigny that captured 33 prisoners and documents with intelligence. This is mentioned in Infantry in Battle by Charles Trueman Lanham pages 43-47
    • Michael Valente
    • John L. Barkley - his exploit of surprising/ambushing and decimating an army of Germans are mentioned in his memoir written by himself and an article One Man’s Ambush written by Edward G. Lengel
  • Korean War
    • Donald Nichols
    • Merrill Newman
    • Colt Terry - whose experience of unconventional warfare in the Korean War before becoming a Green Beret are shown in Colt Terry, Green Beret written by Charles D. Patton published at the Texas A&M University Press
    • Colonel John McGee - affiliated with the Korean partisan force known as Donkey Squads
    • Robert H. Barrow - came up with a cunning tactic that allow his marines to ambush/surprise and kill more than 50 enemy troops. Mentioned in U.S. Marines in the Korean War by Charles Richard Smith pages 203-204
    • Alan Sutter - lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines that set up a L-shaped ambush which decimated an enemy column. Shown in U.S. Marines in the Korean War by Charles Richard Smith page 150.
    • Korean War Ranger Companies

Uruguay

V

Venezuela

Vietnam

W

Western Sahara

Y

Yugoslavia

Z

Zimbabwe

See also
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