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Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War . They were ...
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Minuteman \Min"ute*man\, n.; pl. Minutemen . A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
Usage examples of minutemen.
There he found the house guarded by eight Minutemen, who tried to turn him away.
But as the Minutemen moved off, someone did fire, and the British responded with a volley directly into their ranks.
Prescott, who earlier had made good his escape by jumping his horse over a stone wall, had taken the alarm to Concord, where three companies of Minutemen turned out.
At North Bridge, about nine that morning, they fired on a company of Minutemen blocking their way, killing two.
One of the strangest tales was that of Israel Potter of Cranston, Rhode Island, who had run away from home at eighteen after a family dispute about a girlfriend and enlisted in a company of Minutemen in 1774.
Right now, the Minutemen are convinced they were critically helpful in the war on terrorism--as per our standard cover story.
The Heroes of the Old Time had also been the forefathers of the Minutemen and Foragers, the first Trackers who, under the leadership of george Washington Jefferson the 1st, had formed the Federation.
There were, of course, screenfuls of patriotic guff about the legendary wisdom and foresight of the Founding Father, George Washington Jefferson the 1st and the sacrificial valour of the Minutemen and Foragers.
His combat record should have earned him enrolment into the select company of Minutemen which, like the Foragers, was the ultimate achievement - short of becoming a member of the First Family - to which ordinary Trackers could aspire.
Although Poppa Jack had been allowed to die without the proud knowledge that he'd been chosen to join the select company of Minutemen, his posthumous election would have brought extra lifetime privileges for Annie, including uprated living quarters in one of the new deeps.
On the morning of April 19, 1775, Smith's troops dispersed a company of Minutemen at Lexington, unintentionally killing several in an unauthorized burst of musket fire.
For a long time, she had actually believed that the Seven Great Qualities immortalised by the sacrifice of the Minutemen and the Foragers, and now said to be enshrined in the First Family, were the guidelines by which everybody should live.