Word: militiaization
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...Leverett, the spiritual and intellectual leader of both Cambridge and Boston societies, gaining membership even in the Royal Society of London. His son, General William Brattle, was bound to be a success. First, he married a Saltonstall. Then, in 1771 he was made major-general of all the Royal militia in the province, although he had espoused the revolutionary cause only two years before. Upon his promotion, Brattle for some reason became deeply devoted to the mother government. When it was discovered in 1774 that he was supplying General Gage with information, he found it expedient to retire to Boston...
Most popular of all were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan...
When the Philadelphia militia was called out in 1776, Peale, dressed in a brown uniform and black tricornered hat, and equipped with a sword, a musket with telescopic sights of his own invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads...
...become, at 36, an influential member of the German general staff before incurring Hitler's displeasure, proposed that Germany's new army should be defensive only. Von Bonin wanted West Germany's frontier guarded by small "blocking groups," armed chiefly with antitank guns and backed by militia. These would be backed, in turn, by six armored divisions based in Germany itself. The NATO divisions would remain on the Rhine. Germans are interested in defending their homes, he said, but not in retreating through their own territory until the NATO forces could mount a counterattack. But the political...
...usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into the front galleries, but the congregation studiously ignored them; the long prayer droned on without a break...