re: #112 Aunty Entity Dragon

The militia in the Revolution was better than that actually…but it also had a real chain of command that was legally enforceable.

The militia kept the war going in SC and NC after we lost Charlestown and prevented the British from doing anything but commanding the piece of ground they happened to be standing on. The militia defeated British regulars in open battle at King’s Mountain, and Campbell’s Rifles and the Guilford Militia fought a see saw action against the 1st Guards and Von Bose Hessians for over an hour at Guilford Courthouse. Most Continental Army units could not have managed that.

Problem was, that seemed to be an exception, not the rule, when it came to the militias.