>>Good point, Charles
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>>To reiterate - in the 18th C. a militia was a band of concerned citizens banding together under a local leader. The infamous Green Mountain Boys of the Revolution are a classic example of what a militia was then.
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>Kind of Ye Olde Street Gang <g>
Check out this book: Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
http://www.amazon.com/Founding-Myths-Stories-That-Patriotic/dp/1565849213/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214833957&sr=8-1I thought it was going to be a typical "debunk the old stories" thing, but it turned out to have a much deeper agenda: prove that the American Revolution really was a people's revolution coming up from the bottom, not the creation of a handful of great thinkers. It's well-documented and pretty interesting. Talks about how we got from what really happened to the stories we tell today.
Tamar
