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Lexington Minuteman, a 1900 monument by Henry Hudson Kitson pays tribute to the Minutemen during the American Revolutionary War. Minutemen were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American Revolutionary War.
The Minuteman Project is an organization which was founded in the United States in August 2004 [1] by a group of private individuals who sought to extrajudicially monitor the United States–Mexico border's flow of illegal immigrants. [2]
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Minutemen or Minute Companies were a part of the militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The name minutemen comes from the idea that they would be ready to fight with a minute's notice. [1] The force was created in response to the Massachusetts militia's failure to respond to the Powder Alarm in September 1774. [2]
The Minutemen was an anti-communist, nativist militia organization formed in the United States in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the group was Robert DePugh, a biochemist from Norborne, Missouri. The Minutemen organized themselves into small cells and stockpiled weapons for an anticipated counter-revolution.
To Tom Wong, director of the University of California, San Diego's U.S. Immigration Policy Center, Homan's proposal stirred memories of the Minutemen militia groups that patrolled the Southern ...
In October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress recommended that each town establish a company of Minutemen—specially trained militia who could be ready at short notice in the event that the British Regulars in Boston attempted any warlike movements. [7] In November 1774, Acton formed a company of Minutemen, and Davis was elected ...
Missouri Minute Men secession cockade, Missouri State Museum The Minutemen was a secessionist paramilitary organization in St. Louis, Missouri in the early months of 1861. . Many members joined the 2nd Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Militia, and after May 10, 1861 the Missouri State Guard or the Confederate States Ar