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Federalist No. 29 Alexander Hamilton, author of Federalist No. 29 Author Alexander Hamilton Original title Concerning the Militia Language English Series The Federalist Publisher The Independent Journal Publication date January 9, 1788 Publication place United States Media type Newspaper Preceded by Federalist No. 28 Followed by Federalist No. 30 Text Federalist No. 29 at Wikisource Federalist ...
The term "militia" derives from Old English milite meaning soldiers (plural), militisc meaning military and also classical Latin milit-, miles meaning soldier.. The Modern English term militia dates to the year 1590, with the original meaning now obsolete: "the body of soldiers in the service of a sovereign or a state".
The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry Hamilton ...
Democratic county leaders in Illinois want an investigation of Republican state Rep. Chris Miller after he displayed a decal of an anti-government militia movement on his pickup truck parked at ...
It was one of the largest private military forces in the United States at the time and served to protect the city of Nauvoo and its inhabitants. In 1845 the Nauvoo Legion lost its official sanction as an arm of the Illinois militia, following a controversy in which the Nauvoo Expositor newspaper was destroyed by the Legion on Joseph Smith's ...
The Illinois Reserve Militia was reactivated in 1941, and by December 1941, the Reserve Militia was on continuous duty. Illinois organized the Reserve Militia as a full infantry division and an air corps, totaling nearly 6,000 soldiers by June 1944, with its members agreeing to serve a two-year initial enlistment. [1] In September 1942, the ...
Abraham Lincoln (Captain, Illinois Militia) – Posthumously enrolled. Ulysses S. Grant (General, U.S. Army) – Veteran Companion. Rutherford B. Hayes (Brevet Major General, Volunteers) – Veteran Companion and MOLLUS Commander in Chief from 1888 to 1893. Chester A. Arthur (Brigadier General, New York Militia) – 3rd Class Companion.