RE: "Militia", what that meant then.
October 5, 2017 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2017 at 12:28 pm by Shell B.)
Definitely, but there was no one else. The colonies didn't have their own army until something like May of 1775, so it was militia or nothing for the first few confrontations. Before that, there was no way to train them like a proper military because that would have sparked the war, which isn't what every rebel wanted. However, they did have the advantage of a great deal of them being veterans of the British wars in America.
The founding fathers were far from perfect, but they were about as free thinking as people came back then. Having read countless letters between several of them (albeit usually those from Massachusetts), I doubt they were in the business of sacrificing farm boys for the sake of saving coin. They just didn't have anything but farm boys and very little funds.
The founding fathers were far from perfect, but they were about as free thinking as people came back then. Having read countless letters between several of them (albeit usually those from Massachusetts), I doubt they were in the business of sacrificing farm boys for the sake of saving coin. They just didn't have anything but farm boys and very little funds.
