terror that the Spanish massacre of the Huguenots at Fort Caroline in Florida might be repeated in their own province. [13] All colonists were soldiers in such warfare because all lived on the battlefield. The bravery of women became commonplace, and anyone who waited for the arrival of "troops" did not last long. [14] The colonists' reliance on arms was such that an Anglican minister could write from Maryland in 1775: Rifles, infinitely better than those imported, are daily made in many places in Pennsylvania, and all the gunsmiths everywhere constantly employed. In this country, my lord, the boys, as soon as they can discharge a gun, frequently exercise themselves therewith, some a fowling and others a hunting. The great quantities of game, the many kinds, and the great privileges of killing making the Americans the best marksmen in the world, and thousands support their families by the same, particularly riflemen on the frontiers, whose objects are deer and turkey. In marching through woods one thousand of these riflemen would cut to pieces ten thousand of your best troops. [15] (p.70) These experiences prompted the inclusion of the right to-keep and bear arms in the Federal Constitution. [E]verybody here was a bit of a soldier, none completely so. War was conducted without a professional army, without generals, and even without "soldiers" in the strict-European sense. The Second Amendment to the Federal Constitution would provide: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the