To: BunnySlippers
SIMEON HICKS
A Minuteman from Rehoboth, Massachusetts, he drilled every Saturday in the year leading up to the war. Which is one way that a militia is "well-regulated"
16 posted on
07/04/2013 7:31:50 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Which is one way that a militia is "well-regulated"You mean that doesn't mean registered and licensed?
/bitter sarcasm
24 posted on
07/04/2013 7:38:03 PM PDT by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
To: BenLurkin
More on that from a quote I found some time ago:
The term “regulated” applied to clocks means “accurate in keeping time”. It made sense, particularly in 18th Century armies, to pay a lot of attention to how well soldiers could operate in massed formations. Soldiers had to be drilled to load, aim, and fire as one unit. You do NOT want the rifle next to you to be firing (and emitting a shower of sparks) while you are pouring gunpowder into your musket. Everybody had to do every step together with no screw ups.
42 posted on
07/04/2013 8:28:47 PM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BenLurkin
SIMEON HICKS
A Minuteman from Rehoboth, Massachusetts, he drilled every Saturday in the year leading up to the war. In those days, the Minutemen drilled at the local pub because they gave out free beer. True story.
68 posted on
07/05/2013 3:56:53 PM PDT by
EricT.
(This post has been recorded and cataloged for your security.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson