“The concept of a militia from 200-plus years ago is almost foreign to us today. The closest we have is the state-regulated National Guard, whose beginnings were in 1636.”
That would be a reference to establishment of a requirement to serve in a militia by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony:
However, the Plymouth Colony (including the Wessagussett Colony in Weymouth and Morton’s Merrymount in Quincy) in southeastern Massachusetts had the requirement of militia service sixteen years earlier:
It’s refreshing to see 100% of the comments handing him his own ass.
ReplyDelete“The concept of a militia from 200-plus years ago is almost foreign to us today. The closest we have is the state-regulated National Guard, whose beginnings were in 1636.”
ReplyDeleteThat would be a reference to establishment of a requirement to serve in a militia by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony:
https://www.army.mil/article/70758/national_guard_marks_its_375th_birthday
However, the Plymouth Colony (including the Wessagussett Colony in Weymouth and Morton’s Merrymount in Quincy) in southeastern Massachusetts had the requirement of militia service sixteen years earlier:
http://www.history.army.mil/reference/mamil/MAMIL.HTM
http://people.brandeis.edu/~dkew/David/Leach-Plymouth_military-1951.pdf
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1623/4/6/myles-standish-leads-small-band-to-assassinate-native-american-warriors-at-wessagusset
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/maypole-infuriated-puritans/