Accession Number:

ADA076328

Title:

The New England Colonial Militia and its English Heritage: 1620-1675.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS

Personal Author(s):

• Andresen, Martin W.

Report Date:

1979-06-08

Pagination or Media Count:

102.0

Abstract:

The threefold purpose of this thesis is to examine the evolution of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay militias in relationship to the English militia to trace their establishment in colonial law and to describe how a changing New World environment altered the colonial militias during the period 1620-1675.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• MILITARY DOCTRINE
• THESES
• HISTORY
• MASSACHUSETTS
• NEW ENGLAND
• UNITED KINGDOM

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE