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    The Virginia militia is an armed force composed of all citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia capable of bearing arms. The Virginia militia was established...
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    Battle of Point Pleasant (category Battles in West Virginia)
    1774, between the Virginia militia and Shawnee and Mingo warriors. Along the Ohio River near modern-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia, forces under the...
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    James Monroe (category 19th-century Virginia politicians)
    and had soldiers of the Royal Navy confiscate the weapons of the Virginian militia, which alarmed militiamen and students of the College of William &...
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    A naval militia is a reserve military organization administered under the authority of a state government in the United States. It is often composed of...
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    George Washington (category American militia officers)
    Washington's service as adjutant general of the Virginia militia inspired George to seek a commission. Virginia's lieutenant governor, Robert Dinwiddie, appointed...
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    military duties is the Virginia Militia which actively employs officers amongst the various military schools in the state of Virginia. From its founding until...
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    the safety of the state, as they serve as commander-in-chief of the Virginia Militia. The governor has the legislative power to submit recommendations and...
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    "First West Virginia," founded in 1735 as a Virginia militia regiment. The West Virginia National Guard traces its heritage to the 1735 militia company established...
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    The militia of the United States, as defined by the U.S. Congress, has changed over time. During colonial America, all able-bodied men of a certain age...
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  • with the Virginia National Guard which includes the Virginia Army National Guard, the Virginia Air National Guard, and the unorganized militia. As of 2023...
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  • service, and 14 had none. Their service ranks range from private in a state militia to general of the army. Though the president of the United States is commander-in-chief...
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    A militia (/mɪˈlɪʃə/ mil-ISH-ə) is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country...
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    Culpeper Minutemen (category Virginia militia)
    The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men...
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    1779, the Virginia General Assembly allocated the Military District in Kentucky County. What had been necessity became policy: Virginian Revolutionary...
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    by and appointed under Confederate States law. At least one State militia (Virginia) had at least one brevet general (Francis Henney Smith). Although...
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    of Cowpens, South Carolina. American Patriot forces, estimated at 2,000 militia and regulars under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan faced 1,000 British...
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    Benjamin Logan (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    soldier, and politician from Virginia, then Shelby County, Kentucky. As colonel of the Kentucky County, Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary...
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    Battle of Great Bridge (category Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
    in the area of Great Bridge, Virginia, early in the American Revolutionary War. The refusal by colonial Virginia militia forces led to the departure of...
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    placed Caswell's 1,800 North Carolina militia; to the left of them were Stevens' 700 Virginians, and behind the Virginians were 120 men of Armand's Legion....
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    to settlers and battles between Virginians and Pennsylvanians in the period 1774–1775. In 1774, a Virginian militia group even attacked and captured...
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  • Regiment Virginia Militia (Berkeley) 89th Regiment Virginia Militia (Morgan) 151st Regiment Virginia Militia (Mercer) 167th Regiment Virginia Militia (Wayne...
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    George Rogers Clark (category Militia generals in the American Revolution)
    the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for...
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    American Revolutionary War on July 4, 1778, by George Rogers Clark of the Virginia Militia as a result of the Illinois Campaign. Though part or all of the area...
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    elements. These groups may refer to themselves as militia, unorganized militia, and constitutional militia. While groups such as the Posse Comitatus existed...
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  • hostages in a Charleston, West Virginia television station, and shutting down the operations of a West Virginian militia. In addition Tom Clancy created...
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    Sam Houston (category Baptists from Virginia)
    served in Morgan's Rifle Brigade as a paymaster. He served in the Virginian militia, which required him to pay his own expenses and to be away from his...
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  • derived from Virginia militias are in the West Virginia National Guard; at the time of the War of 1812, West Virginia was still part of Virginia. Only two...
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    Winfield Scott (category Virginia militia)
    of service. Scott was born near Petersburg, Virginia, in 1786. After training as a lawyer and brief militia service, he joined the army in 1808 as a captain...
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    Daniel Morgan (category Continental Army officers from Virginia)
    a Welsh family, Morgan settled in Winchester, Virginia. He became an officer of the Virginia militia and recruited a company of riflemen at the start...
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    Wayne, but Wayne did not arrive in Virginia until June. Lafayette's force included a substantial number of Virginia militia, and he shadowed Cornwallis during...
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