Lawrence and Faisal al-Husayn (later Faisal I), various Arab guerrilla bands fought superior Turkish forces. In World War I the most spectacular theater of guerrilla operations was the Arabian peninsula, where, under the leadership of T. Notable among early 20th-century Latin American guerrillas are Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Augusto C. There has been frequent guerrilla warfare in Latin America. Army conducted a long campaign against Filipino guerrillas, such as Emilio Aguinaldo, and Moro bands. In the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, the U.S. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) the Germans suffered so much from French partisans, or francs-tireurs, that Field Marshall von Moltke ordered the shooting of all prisoners not fully uniformed and led by regular officers. Mosby, in Virginia, was undoubtedly the most effective. Quantrill, who operated in Missouri and Kansas, was the most notorious of the Confederate guerrilla leaders, but John S. From Spain the use of the term spread to Latin America and then to the United States.ĭuring the U.S. The term guerrilla itself was coined during the Peninsular War (1808–14), when Spanish partisans, under such leaders as Francisco Mina, proved unconquerable even by the armies of Napoleon I. Large-scale guerrilla fighting accompanied the American Revolution, and the development of guerrilla tactics under such partisan leaders as Francis Marion, Andrew Pickens, and Thomas Sumter has been called the great contribution of the American Revolution to the development of warfare.