A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 3 dec 1980 - 250 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... militia system , based on the system that had existed for gen- erations in the parent state , was instituted in each colony . Professional soldiers such as Miles Standish immediately created militia companies . Plymouth , for instance ...
... militia system , based on the system that had existed for gen- erations in the parent state , was instituted in each colony . Professional soldiers such as Miles Standish immediately created militia companies . Plymouth , for instance ...
Pagina 16
... militia primarily was designed as a defensive unit . The charter of the confederation of New England , the short - lived union of the mid - seventeenth century , permitted militia troops to be sent outside their respective colonies for ...
... militia primarily was designed as a defensive unit . The charter of the confederation of New England , the short - lived union of the mid - seventeenth century , permitted militia troops to be sent outside their respective colonies for ...
Pagina 174
... militia forces had deteriorated considerably by 1775. In fact , while the colonists paid excessive lip service to the militia concept , their actual attachment to this kind of military force was probably less intense than historians ...
... militia forces had deteriorated considerably by 1775. In fact , while the colonists paid excessive lip service to the militia concept , their actual attachment to this kind of military force was probably less intense than historians ...
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The Nature of American | 1 |
War and Society | 3 |
The Indian Wars | 29 |
Copyright | |
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