Stryder50
Platinum Member
First is an obvious failure to grasp some basics of history about 245 years ago, or language terms and usage of that past period.Well regulated militia can be created on the basis of the police. The US police are subordinate to the state and independent of the federals. Armed male can be trained by the police, and participate in police operations as an auxiliary force. This is the shortest way to create a militia.
The constitution says that the creation of a militia is necessary.
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1) The original 13 colonies of England on the Eastern shores of North America (future USA) had very few soldiers of England stationed in the colonies, nor any formal regiments of "militia" raised by the colony governments. Along with personal self-defense, local community defense was based upon a local and community militia, a body of armed men willing to defend their community from attack. In most cases this was from local indigenous, native Americans ("Indians").
2) Standard weapon/firearm of the time was a muzzle loading musket/rifle. Usual deployment of a body of armed men was to form two or more ranks facing your enemy, where the first/closest rank would fire their weapons, then move through the files to the rear of the formation to reload. The second rank would then "Present Arms" and "Fire" as needed or per command. Then they would move through the files to the rear of the formation to reload, while the next(third) rank would advance a step or two, Ready-Aim-Fire, and so on.
This was common battle drill or in the words of the time, how a "well regulated" militia was trained and would perform if deployed in a line of battle. Further regulation might find them organized into "squads" that would be the ranks when in line of battle formation.
In more broken terrain, rigid block formations might not be possible so you'd find a more "free form" sort of engagement, such as moving through the brush and firing(ambush) from woods, etc.
3) in the case of the War for Independence, local militias were called upon to form larger regiments and compose/augment the Revolutionary Army. Prior to 1775, as England sent more troops to garrison the colonies and enforce Crown Laws, the colonists and their militias began to organize and prepare for possible conflict. It was a cache'/store of cannons and munitions that the British from Boston were marching to seize and to which local militia, "MinuteMen", responded, resulting in battles of Lexington and Concord. Part of the start of the WoI.