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The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630–1691 English colony in North America
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Force of non-professional soldiers
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Indigenous people from Connecticut, US
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Native Americans in the United States
Indigenous peoples of the United States
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National Guard (United States)
State military force and federal military reserve of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force
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