... even though their country had to face the strongest military power at the time. The main part of the American army was militia men. Even though the Americans had lacked a formalized Army, the militia that it possessed was very effective in the determent of the British troops. The battle at Bunker Hill in ... the British were no match for the American aspiration. When the British began to build up forces on Staten Island with several thousand troops, the militia fought against it, which led to the Battle of Long Island on August 26, 1776. Even though the Americans lacked the experience, t...

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... . The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Most gun control activists focus in isolation ... on the beginning of the amendment where the founders wrote that a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. They then try to argue that only the military or the National Guard should have ac...

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... brothers. At this time in the American Revolution only a few colonies with militias fighting against the British. Henry is pleading with Virginia to make a militia of its own and fight. In his speech he asks, "what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ... to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?" [Henry, pg. 1] Henry is asking the Continental Congress what the British have done in the past to justify the faith Americans had in the ministry. For 10 years the colonists were treated as ... unknown, pg. 1]...

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... . Andrew Jackson was the Commander in charge of the American forces that were sent to prevent this from happening. He was a Tennessee lawyer, planter and militia leader. When he was 13 years old he joined the Continental Army as a courier. During The Revolution one of his older brothers died after the Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina in 1779. Two years after that ... ...

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