Colonial Militia Quotes

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

About 3,000 have taken that oath. I am now endeavoring two regiments, one of white people called the Queen’s Own Loyal Virginia Regiment and the other of Negroes called Lord Dunsmore’s Ethiopian Regiment.

There were more Americans in the British Army during the Revolution than there were in the American Army.

These Savages may indeed be a formidable Enemy to your raw American Militia but upon the King’s regular and disciplin’d Troops, Sir, it is impossible they should make any impression

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

In the beginning of the year 1776, the colonists were farmers, merchants, and mechanics; at its close, soldiers.

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

The King has subjects enough in those parts not only to defend themselves from any attack of French and Indians, but they are so crumbled into little governments and so disunited in their interests that they have hitherto afforded but little assistance to each other.... It is almost incredible that the Governor of New York, in the middle of above 40,000 English ... should say, as he does, that he has only the companies in the King’s pay that he can rely on for the defense of the frontier.