Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia Pennsylvania [12] Pennsylvania State Militia Pennsylvania [12] Rhode Island Patriots Rhode Island [12] Texas State Militia Texas [25] [26] This Is Texas Freedom Force Texas [27] [28] Green Mountain Militia Vermont [12] Washington Light Foot Militia Washington [29] West Virginia Light Foot Militia West Virginia [12]
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. It had an estimated 12,000 ...
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]
The militia and minutemen companies still were organized by town and trained typically as an entire unit in each town two to four times a year with the Minutemen receiving extra training. From the end of the French and Indian War , this was normal during peacetime but, in the 1770s, as friction with The Crown increased and the possibility of ...
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 ...
The militia movement is a right-wing movement that arose following controversial standoffs in the 1990s. It inherited paramilitary traditions of earlier groups, especially the conspiratorial, anti-government Posse Comitatus. The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are ...
The South recognized the need for their own Wide Awakes and thus started a movement to create "a counteracting organization in the South," [15] dubbed the "Minutemen," after the American Revolution militia of the same name. It would no longer entertain the "abhorrence of the rapine, murder, insurrection, pollution and incendiarism which have ...
Near Elizabeth, Illinois: Black Hawk War: United States Victory 1+ United States vs Sauk and Fox: Illinois Mormon War: June 10, 1844 - September 16, 1846 Nauvoo, Illinois: Illinois Victory ~10 Illinois and Illinois Militia vs Nauvoo Legion: Charleston riot: March 28, 1864 Charleston, Illinois: Civil War: 9 Union Army vs Copperheads: Haymarket ...