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5193. MILITIA, Distant service.—[continued].

We hope it will be the
last time we shall have occasion to require
our militia to go out of their own country,
as we think it most advisable to put that
distant, disagreeable service on our regulars,
* * * and to employ our militia on service
in our own country.—
To Colonel Abraham Penn. Ford ed., iii, 29.
(R. 1781)