trainband

In the early American colonies the trainband was the most basic tactical unit.

The bitter trainband controversy dragged on for several years, culminating in stiff fines.

Towns often had a village green, used for outdoor celebrations and activities like military exercises of the town's trainband or militia.

Generally, upon reaching a certain age a man was required to join the local trainband in which he received periodic training for the next couple of decades.

Alienated and radicalised, in August 1643, he joined a trainband and fought at the First Battle of Newbury.

A group of leading young men in Hartford decided it was time to organize a select company for the purpose of escorting the Governor and General Assembly at the General Elections after an unfortunate incident in 1768, when a "trainband" made a farce out of the escort duty.