Sentence:  Lamenting the fact that "scarcely an inch of the page of history has been appropriated" to the memory of the black <WSD>arms-bearers</WSD> of the Revolutionary War, Henry Highland Garnet sought to redress the balance in an address before the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An armed fighter, such as a soldier or knight; one who carries and uses a weapon, as opposed to a member of the support personnel.