During the Revolutionary War, volunteers ready to fight with 60 seconds' notice were called these
The British were forced out of Boston in 1776, but then captured and 
held ... a second British army at Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the war in 
the ..... By June, nine colonies were ready for independence; one by one, the last
... [DOC] [TLE] Minutemen - Wikipedia [PAR] Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-
prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military 
strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American 
Revolutionary War.