Militia

later. The historical background of the movie is the battles that the Colonies and British fought in the South during the American Revolution and the group of militia called The Patriots that help fight alongside the Continental army. The significance of the action at the Battle of Camden was to show how badly the Continental army and the militia were losing the war, from that it set the mood in the story of danger and the underdog struggle…

In order to prepare for a battle against the British the colonies started to form militias. Around Boston, the militias of Massachusetts began to collect and stock up on guns and ammunitions. Somehow the British found out about the militias and decided that it was time for them to get ready. The British then tried to go into Concord to try and steal the colonist weapons and kidnap Samael Adams and John Handcock…

The “Militia Myth” was also born from this conflict. It was more pointed towards the citizens’ militia than rather at the formal military. Thus, it was believed through the "militia myth" that Upper Canada was saved only by the efforts of its settlers, with a little help from the British Regular Army (Feicht). Canadian historians clung to this comforting thesis, which paralleled so well the idea of very limited defence expenditure for professional forces coupled with a large paper militia, for…

The group decides to only let the hunters or militia have weapons, but if the whole group is capable of using a weapon then the island may be more stable with the balance of weapons. With the weapons being more spread out, the group could feel safer and more protected from the beast as they would be…

continental congress debated over the declaration of Independence and signed the declaration Independence it’s on the right column second of the bottom. Then he went back to connecticut where he was placed in command of a detachment of connecticut militia of fourteen regiments raised to defend New York. About Oliver Wolcott family Oliver Wolcott went to Yale in 1774. Oliver married Lorraine in 1775, Lorraine was the daughter of…

The Confederates shot from the Wilderness at the Union soldiers.The trees and underbrush made moving hard because of the difficulty the troops faced to move in an orderly fashion and was extremely rough on the cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for…

George Rex Jr married into the Knauss family. This was the backwoods idea of a power couple via the mid 1700's. The Knauss family in America took their ancestry seriously. The family genealogists organized an impressive show in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania. How many people would you consider a complete family reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion. Their ability to gather information in…

Second Amendment that is written in the U.S Constitution states; "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" (“Right to Bear Arms”). The opponents believe that this Amendment guarantees the personal right to keep firearms, and some say that it protects the “general militia” who are different from the “state militia” as that is controlled by the state and its government. Statistics have shown…

The thirteen colonies did not have a trained militia to fight off the British invasion; however, each of the thirteen colonies sponsored a militia. The colonists would resort to unorthodox, and what could be said to be guerrilla tactics, to fight the British. The colonists would often fight from the tree lines and retreat, but they would also fight…

subject to the British crown. Inside the borders of the United States, the effects were much different. Some of them are obvious, like the fact that America was liberated from the British, and that the midnight ride helped warn the farmers so the militia could defeat the opposing army. There were also great lasting effects on society. The spark mentioned in the poem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, stanza 8,…