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    training and drilling of militia. The need for efficient minuteman companies was illustrated by the Powder Alarm of 1774. Militia companies were called out...
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  • The Minuteman Project is an organization which was founded in the United States in August 2004 by a group of private individuals who sought to extrajudicially...
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    The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps was a volunteer group at one time headed by Chris Simcox (an Arizona newspaper publisher) and dedicated to preventing...
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  • Minutemen were civilian militia units during the American Revolutionary War. Minutemen, Minute Men, or Minuteman may also refer to: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps...
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    for reinforcements. The continental force included some 4,000 militia and local minuteman companies. Although the Provincial Congress had organized local...
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    renovation. The statue known as The Lexington Minuteman (1900) was originally meant to represent the common Minuteman, but has now commonly become accepted as...
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    Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded as the Massachusetts Bay Colonial Militia on December 13, 1636, it contains the oldest units in the United States...
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    Retrieved October 6, 2012. Yeo, Douglas. "Daniel Chester French: The "Concord Minuteman"". Retrieved 2009-10-31. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Minute...
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  • Brigade of militia. Colonel Long went on to become the Deputy Quartermaster General of the North Carolina Line. The Hillsborough District Minuteman Battalion...
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  • 1964. "Minuteman Suspect Picks Jury Trial". Ventura County Star. July 6, 1964. "Minister on Trial in U.S. Court; Bought Gun for $100, Ex-Minuteman Reports"...
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  • 1636, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony's government organized existing militia companies into three regiments. The National Guard's history continued...
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  • Minutemen (anti-Communist organization) (category Right-wing militia organizations in the United States)
    The Minutemen was an anti-communist, nativist militia organization formed in the United States in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the group was...
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  • The Hillsborough District Brigade of militia was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia established on May 4, 1776. Brigadier General...
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  • Minuteman: The Second American Revolution is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that hypothesizes a modern-day revolution...
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    house of a Mrs. Heywood. Due to Prescott's efforts that night, the minuteman and militia companies in numerous towns were alerted, mustered, and marched...
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    blue”, which did not exist before 1704. A commission dating to 1737 names Minuteman Nathaniel Page’s father John Page as “Cornett of the Troop of horse”,...
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    Hanover County militia during the time of the Regulator uprising in 1771. Later, during the American Revolutionary War, he served as a minuteman in the Salisbury...
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  • Chris Simcox (born 1961) is the American co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), the project's main spokesperson, and a convicted sex...
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    Richard Caswell (category Militia generals in the American Revolution)
    Provincial Congress disbanded minuteman battalions in favor of militia. In 1780, he was commissioned major general of militia and state troops. At the Battle...
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    The North Carolina militia units were first established in 1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress on the eve of the American Revolution...
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  • Firing Demonstration Part 1 (Minuteman National Park) (video) (Brown Bess) Musket Firing Demonstration Part 2 (Minuteman National Park) (video) How to...
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    Overmountain Men (category United States militia in the American Revolution)
    were 28 killed and 62 wounded. Among the Patriot dead was South Carolina militia leader James Williams. John Sevier's brother, Robert, was also mortally...
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    Isaac Davis (February 23, 1745 – April 19, 1775) was a gunsmith and a militia officer who commanded a company of Minutemen from Acton, Massachusetts,...
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  • Minutemen, Stow Minutemen, Lexington Minutemen, Westborough Militia, and Arlington Minuteman. MCV’s mission is to research, perform, and promote the music...
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    Monument Memorial to the Lexington Minute Men (1948) by B. Paeff The Minuteman Statue (1899) by H. H. Kitson, a bequest of Francis Brown Hayes to the...
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  • alarm to assemble the Lexington militia on the common sometime after 1 a.m. With no British troops in sight, the militia was told to disperse and stay in...
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  • – May 2, 2012) was an American marine, founder and leader of a border militia group and a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement who sought...
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    local governments. They regulated the economy, politics, morality, and militia of their individual communities, but many local feuds were played out under...
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    John Whitcomb (general) (category Militia generals in the American Revolution)
    known as John Whetcomb) was a state representative, minuteman, and American Revolutionary War militia general from Massachusetts. Whitcomb was born in what...
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    of the captain of the Lexington Militia, John Parker, stands on the Battle Green. The statue is known as the Minuteman Statue by locals. A historical reenactment...
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