Word: militiaization
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...order to protect the household effects and property of the thousands of homeless people, the Chelsea militia was called out shortly after noon. Early in the course of the fire, help was sent for and men and apparatus came from Lynn, Cambridge, Everett, Revere, Winthrop, and other cities as far distant as Waltham...
...they should not be discouraged, as it was rapidly growing. President Eliot then pointed out that as result of their generations of hardship, they had lost their physique and martial spirit, and advised and them go to in for more out-of-door life and to enter and the militia. He gave them credit for two great qualities, their beautiful family life and their power of intelligently directed, assiduous, and judicious labor...
This evening the Canadian Club will give an informal dinner at the union to Sir Frederick W. Borden M.'86, Minister of Militia and Defence for the Dominion of Canada. After the dinner Mr. Borden will make and informal address at a smoker to which all British subjects in the University are invited...
...description of the various kinds of ordnance used by the United States, both for coast defense and for the use of mobile armies, illustrating his explanations by stereopticon views. This was followed by an account of the equipment and personnel of the standing army as well as the militia, towards which, General Crozier said, the attitude of the government is more of encouragement than of control...
...Massachusetts Volunteer Militia," by Roger Wolcott...