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The Florida State Guard (FSG) is the state defense force of the U.S. state of Florida.The FSG was created in 1941 to serve as a stateside replacement for the Florida National Guard while the National Guard was deployed abroad during World War II.
The Republic of Florida Militia (ROF) is a white supremacist group based in Florida [1] that promotes white supremacist ideology; the group's goal is to form a white ethno-state [2] in the south of Florida and it engages in paramilitary training to further this goal.
State Militia (Militia Act of 1903) Size: Approximately 12,000 Soldiers and Airmen. ... The Florida National Guard is the National Guard force of the state of Florida.
The Legislature already revived the Florida State Guard and then expanded it at his request. Now lawmakers are working to give him even more power to deploy the unit while making it harder to hold ...
The Florida State Guard looks nothing like what its recruits thought they signed up for. It’s morphing into what looks more like a militia than the disaster response organization recruits ...
The predecessor of the Florida Army National Guard was a Spanish Florida militia formed in 1565 in the newly established presidio town of St. Augustine.On September 20, 1565, Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, attacked and defended Florida from an attempted French settlement at Fort Caroline, in what is now Jacksonville. [2]
The vast majority of his militia were farmers from the local area with a couple of "labourers", and four privates listed in the muster rolls as a saddler, printer, carpenter and mechanic. Most were born in Florida and Georgia, although at least three of his soldiers were born in Germany, and one was from France. Each volunteer provided his own ...
William Henry Chase (June 4, 1798 – February 8, 1870) was a Florida militia colonel during the events in early 1861 that led to the American Civil War (Civil War). On January 15, 1861, on behalf of the State and Governor of Florida, Colonel Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida and of its U.S. Army garrison.