Editing Militia (section)

==== Texas ====
[[File:Regional Basic Orientation Training Class, Texas State Guard.JPG|thumb|Basic orientation for the [[Texas State Guard]]. The Guard is a [[state defense force]], military units under the sole authority of the state government.]]
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The most important previous activity of the Texas Militia was the [[Texas Revolution]] in 1836. Texans declared independence from [[Mexico]] while they were defeated during the [[Battle of the Alamo]], in March 1836. On April 21, 1836, led by [[Sam Houston]], the Militia attacked the [[Mexican Army]] at their camp, in the [[Battle of San Jacinto]] near the present city of [[Houston]]. Following the war, some militia units reorganized into what was later to be known as the [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Rangers]], which was a private, volunteer effort for several years before becoming an official organization. After Texas joined the Union of the United States in 1845, Texas militia units participated in the [[Mexican–American War]].

In 1861 Texas joined the other [[Confederate States]] in seceding from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]], and Texas militias played a role in the [[American Civil War]] until it ended in 1865. Texas militiamen joined [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s [[Rough Riders]], a volunteer militia, and fought with him during the [[Spanish–American War]] in 1898. Some of the training of the Rough Riders took place in San Pedro Park, in the north-central part of San Antonio near the present site of [[San Antonio College]]. When a muster of the Militia proposed to train there on April 19, 1994, they were threatened with arrest, even though the charter of San Pedro Park forbids exclusion of activities of that kind. This threat led to a change in the meeting site. Like many other American states, Texas maintains a recognized State Militia, the [[Texas State Guard]].