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Poster is incorrect. The British had a standing Army in America for a long period before "the country started" as a state separate from Britain. Before there was a Continental Army, militias made up the resistance to the standing army. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/british-army-american-revolution https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/historyculture/the-militia-and-minute-men-of-1775.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_militia_units_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War
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