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After You Distrust and dislike of the militia was so rampant that militia units were treated like cannon fodder. Ernest Cruikshank of the Pennsylvania Volunteers remembered receiving praise from a regular army officer and they were told that they would be in the advance of any force in an engagement; " . . . thus to have the first chance of being shot, which is surely a remarkable privilege." - Documents Relating to the Invasion of Canada and the Surrender of Detroit, 1812.
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