Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Dusting Off Old Lies

"Local historian" David Winship presumes to teach. [More]

He doesn't even belong in the class without some prerequisites.

[Via TheFakePundit]
Posted by David Codrea at 9/19/2017 03:38:00 PM

2 comments:

Henry said...

It’s refreshing to see 100% of the comments handing him his own ass.

9/20/2017 12:53 PM
Ed said...

“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:

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/




9/20/2017 5:31 PM

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