The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" id="mwYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Department of War">United States Department of War</a> first establishes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Army_(United_States)" id="mwYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Regular Army (United States)">regular army</a> with a strength of several hundred men.<sup about="#mwt63" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_29#cite_note-10" id="mwYg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwYw">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt60" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHeitman1890">Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890). <i id="mwCr8">Historical Register of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to September 29, 1889</i>. National Tribune. p.<span id="mwCsA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>40.</cite><span about="#mwt60" class="Z3988" id="mwCsE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Historical+Register+of+the+United+States+Army%3A+From+Its+Organization%2C+September+29%2C+1789%2C+to+September+29%2C+1889&amp;rft.pages=40&amp;rft.pub=National+Tribune&amp;rft.date=1890&amp;rft.aulast=Heitman&amp;rft.aufirst=Francis+Bernard&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+29"></span></span>