Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Washington whom Freeman has shaken loose from thousands of documents is first a proud, preoccupied child (here Freeman is weakest, because of the many undocumented blanks in George's boyhood), then a self-made provincial surveyor, land-grabbing and money-seeking; later, a Virginia colonel of militia in the French arid Indian War with "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind...
...brother, Lawrence Washington, died in 1752, George lost the friend who had influenced him most. By Lawrence's will he eventually got Mt. Vernon; the Virginia Council and Governor Dinwiddie also gave him a job as adjutant and the rank of major which Lawrence had held in the militia. Two years later, the serious, acquisitive money seeker became the watchdog of a 350-mile frontier harried by French and Indians...
...prospective revolution, he is unwilling to lend his support until he can be assured that the blow will come after his Master has left the city for the summer. But when at the last minute the Captain decides to stay, George is compelled to betray the plot. The militia are called, and Denmark Vesey, forsaken by all his "disciples," is left to await his own doom...
...Army's Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, recommended that the air and ground forces of the state-controlled National Guard be merged with the federally controlled Organized Reserve Corps into a single, federal reserve arm for each service. In place of the guard, each state would raise its own militia unit, as it did in wartime...
...their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General Wei Li-huang has recruited, equipped and trained four new divisions. Without the Ginio at the head of the government, the splintering process would be speeded...