The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" id="mwNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> organizes three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Militia">militia</a> regiments to defend the colony against the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_people" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pequot people">Pequot</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Native Americans in the United States">Indians</a>, a date now considered the founding of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States" id="mwOQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="National Guard of the United States">National Guard of the United States</a>.<sup about="#mwt36" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_13#cite_note-5" id="mwOg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOw">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt33" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDoubler2008">Doubler, Michael D. (2008). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pNHbw5H07P4C" id="mwBbk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBbo">The National Guard and Reserve: A Reference Handbook</i></a>. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. p.<span id="mwBbs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>47. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBb0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780275993252" id="mwBb4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780275993252"><bdi id="mwBb8">9780275993252</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt33" class="Z3988" id="mwBcA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+National+Guard+and+Reserve%3A+A+Reference+Handbook&amp;rft.place=Westport%2C+Conn.&amp;rft.pages=47&amp;rft.pub=Praeger+Security+International&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=9780275993252&amp;rft.aulast=Doubler&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael+D.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DpNHbw5H07P4C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+13"></span></span>