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WHYU-FM (89.1 FM MHz) is a non-commercial radio station operated by the American Militia Association in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The station transferred from being a low-power FM station , to a full-power FM station in mid-August 2022.
Dress uniform of the Old Guard State Fencibles. The Old Guard State Fencibles was a militia organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that existed between 1813 and 1981.. The Old Guard State Fencibles, "a military organization raised in Philadelphia in 1813 as part of the Pennsylvania militia and continued as a unit in the National Guard until independent battalions were abolished around 1900.
In 1755, the Pennsylvania Assembly passed the first Militia Act, formally authorizing a volunteer militia. Shortly after the start of the American Revolutionary War , the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry escorted General George Washington to New York to take command of the Continental Army after it was created by an act of the Second ...
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.
Following the outbreak of the Korean War, several Pennsylvania units saw active service there. [12] Meanwhile, the 28th Division was ordered into active federal service 5 September 1950 at Harrisburg. The Division re-opened the mothballed Camp Atterbury, Indiana and remained there from 13 September 1950 to 23 November 1951. It was sent to ...
Redstone Old Fort — written as Redstone or Red-Stone Fort [1] or (for a short time when built) Fort Burd [1] — on the Nemacolin Trail, was the name of the French and Indian War-era wooden fort built in 1759 by Pennsylvania militia colonel James Burd to guard the ancient Indian trail's river ford on a mound overlooking the eastern shore of the Monongahela River (colloquially, just "the Mon ...
This regiment was organized at Philadelphia and mustered into federal service on May 1, 1861. [1] This regiment was also a Philadelphia militia regiment and was recruited in that city. It was known as the Philadelphia Light Guard. After mustering in, it went into camp near Philadelphia. [2]
The Pennsylvania Militia: Defending the Commonwealth and the nation, 1669-1870. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs, 2002. Ryan, William R. The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Seymour, Joseph. The Pennsylvania Associators, 1747 ...