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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 565 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MINUTE MEN: in the See also:

American See also:War of See also:Independence, See also:militia-men who had undertaken to turn out for service at a minute's See also:notice. In See also:Massachusetts the minute men were enrolled by an See also:act of the provincial See also:congress of the 23rd of See also:November 1774, and in See also:Boston alone they numbered 16,000 See also:prior to the outbreak of the war.

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