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The Indiana Guard Reserve (IGR), formerly the Liberty Guard and the Indiana Legion, is the state defense force [1] of the state of Indiana. The Indiana Guard Reserve serves under the exclusive authority of the governor of the State of Indiana through his executive agent for military matters, The Adjutant General of Indiana.
The Illinois Reserve Militia was reactivated in 1941, and by December 1941, the Reserve Militia was on continuous duty. Illinois organized the Reserve Militia as a full infantry division and an air corps, totaling nearly 6,000 soldiers by June 1944, with its members agreeing to serve a two-year initial enlistment. [1]
This is a list of United States military units that participated in the Mexican–American War. The list includes regular U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Marine Service units and ships as well as the units of the militia that various states recruited for the war. The commanding officer of each unit or ship is identified when there ...
Fort Sheridan, Highwood, Illinois (closed 1993) Fort Arlington, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Green River Ordnance Plant. Haley Army Airfield. Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois. Savanna Army Depot, Savanna, Illinois (Closed circa 2000)
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States.
History. The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry ...
The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of about 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is now eastern Kansas . The march began at Twin Lakes, Indiana (Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana) on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River, ending ...
The Illinois Air National Guard ( IL ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Illinois, United States of America. It is, along with the Illinois Army National Guard, an element of the Illinois National Guard . As state militia units, the units in the Illinois Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.
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