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To: marktwain

-——independently-functioning active resistance cells——

= militias

This is precisely what took place in East Tennessee in the 1790’s where the British and the Cherokee’s were a threat. The citizens were armed and grouped together. They elected a leader that became the officer in command

Collectively, the isolated groups gathered and marched to South Carolina where they soundly destroyed the Brirish army and turned the tide of the Revolution


101 posted on 01/01/2013 6:21:49 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: bert

King’s Mtn should be more famous than Bunker Hill.


105 posted on 01/01/2013 7:20:22 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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