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  2. List of British units in the American Revolutionary War

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    Black Company of Pioneers (also, known as the Black Pioneers, later merged into the Guides and Pioneers in 1778), (pioneers, another name for military construction engineers) (1777–1778) British Legion (placed on American establishment in 1781 as 5th American Regiment) (1777–1778)

  3. Associators - Wikipedia

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    Associators were members of 17th- and 18th-century volunteer military associations in the British American thirteen colonies and British Colony of Canada. These were more commonly known as Maryland Protestant, Pennsylvania, and American Patriot and British Loyalist colonial militias.

  4. List of United States militia units in the American ...

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    In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short. Militia persons were normally ...

  5. List of Loyalists (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Fanning (1739–1818), commanded militia in the War of the Regulation and Loyalist militia in the American Revolution; later Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and Saint John's Island [22] David Farnsworth (died 1778), British agent hanged for his participation in a plot to undermine the American economy by distributing counterfeit currency

  6. List of militia units of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of militia units of the Colony and later Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1638) Cogswell's Regiment of Militia (April 19, 1775)

  7. Minutemen - Wikipedia

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    The British practiced formations with their weapons, focusing on marching formations on the battlefield. It is a myth that the British and other professional armies of the 1700s did not practice marksmanship with their muskets; the military ammunition of the time was made for fast reloading and more than a dozen consecutive shots without cleaning.

  8. Colonial American military history - Wikipedia

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    Few American military units were involved, as British regulars handled the action. The British Crown issued a proclamation in October 1763 forbidding American settlers to enter Indian territory west of the Appalachian Mountains, hoping to minimize future conflict and laying plans for an Indian satellite state in the Great Lakes region.

  9. Category : Military units and formations established in the 1700s

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