USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -militia, military organization of citizens with limited military training, which is available for emergency service, usually for local defense.

Detailed explanation-2: -: a body of citizens organized for military service. : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service.

Detailed explanation-3: -A militia is a band of civilians trained to do army type business, without officially joining the army. Militia comes from mīlet-, Latin for “soldier, ” but the word now refers to a band of fighters who aren’t officially soldiers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “militia” derives from Old English milite meaning soldiers (plural), militisc meaning military and also classical Latin milit-, miles meaning soldier. The Modern English term militia dates to the year 1590, with the original meaning now obsolete: “the body of soldiers in the service of a sovereign or a state".

Detailed explanation-5: -A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time.