Tango01  | 25 Jul 2024 5:17 p.m. PST |
… First Special Forces
"The Massachusetts Minutemen are some of the most legendary figures of the American Revolutionary War. Initially established to prepare for war with Britain, they are most famous for answering the call of Paul Revere and others on the night of April 18–19, 1775, as British troops marched to Lexington and Concord…"
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| Disco Joe | 25 Jul 2024 5:42 p.m. PST |
So where is the link that you always provide? |
| rmaker | 25 Jul 2024 8:31 p.m. PST |
Evidently whoever wrote this never heard of Rogers' Rangers or the other FIW ranger units. |
| The dumb guy | 25 Jul 2024 8:34 p.m. PST |
Uh, no. They were the guys who could grab their muskets at "a minute's notice" and be the first to oppose whoever was the enemy. |
| Tango01 | 25 Jul 2024 11:14 p.m. PST |
Sorry… I don't understand were the rest of the thread go… Here is the link… link
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| 42flanker | 26 Jul 2024 3:25 a.m. PST |
Volunteers chosen after rigorous selection process, which most fail, in order to train for and engage in specialist military operations, often covert, using non standard weaponry and tactics selected for the task. Them? |
| Choctaw | 26 Jul 2024 6:17 a.m. PST |
These were farmers and tradesmen who took the fight to the greatest military on earth with minimum support and training. Knock them if you will but the Minutemen showed more guts than most Americans for generations to come. And not one of them had to be drafted. |
| 42flanker | 26 Jul 2024 10:13 a.m. PST |
"who took the fight to the greatest military on earth" I think it's generally accepted that such a description does not stand up to scrutiny. No-one's knocking them; only the author, perhaps. But they still can't be described as "special forces" which is both anachronistic and inaccurate. "Just sayin' "- as they say. |
| Tango01 | 26 Jul 2024 3:31 p.m. PST |
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| Bill N | 27 Jul 2024 7:15 a.m. PST |
I cannot speak to the Minutemen who turned out for Lexington and Concord. Elsewhere in the colonies and at different times during the AWI there was a significant reliance on the draft in order to fill the ranks. So called Loyalist uprisings later in the war were little more than draft riots. |
| Tango01 | 28 Jul 2024 4:06 p.m. PST |
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| Baron von Wreckedoften II | 21 Dec 2024 5:27 a.m. PST |
A much better book on this subject is John R Galvin's "The Minutemen" which looks at the history of the Massachusetts militia and how it came to be restructured in the months leading up to the outbreak of the AWI. Thoroughly recommended. |
is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those.