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Drake's Regiment of Militia also known as the 2nd New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on September 8, 1777 as reinforcements for the Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign.
Abraham Drake (December 4, 1715 – August 1, 1781) was an officer in the New Hampshire militia that served with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Biography [ edit ]
The 1st New Jersey Regiment was the first organized militia regiment in New Jersey, formed in 1673 in Piscataway "to repel foreign Indians who come down from upper Pennsylvania and western New York (in the summer) to our shores and fill (themselves) with fishes and clams and on the way back make a general nuisance of themselves by burning hay stacks, corn fodder and even barns."
Drake's New Hampshire Militia: Colonel Abraham Drake; Evans' New Hampshire ... John. F. Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American ...
At the beginning of the American Civil War, the Militia was virtually nonexistent. The state had to raise volunteer regiments , such as the 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry , to aid in the war. In 1879, New Hampshire designated the Militia as the New Hampshire National Guard , decades before the mandatory name change required by the ...
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 ...
On April 19, 1775, the militia of Massachusetts, later joined by the militias of other New England colonies, began a siege at Boston to prevent thousands of newly-arrived British troops from moving inland.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [ 1 ] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States.