page_title: Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812
section_title: 772nd Military Police Company (ARNG MA)
hierarchical_section_title: Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812 / 772nd Military Police Company (ARNG MA)
caption_attribution_description: English: DUI of 211th MP Bn (ARNG MA)
context_page_description: Twenty-four current units of the Army National Guard perpetuate the lineages of militia units mustered into federal service during the War of 1812. Militia units from nine states that were part of the Union by the end of the War of 1812, plus the District of Columbia, are the predecessors of eighteen units that currently exist in the Army National Guard. Two of the four units derived from Virginia militias are in the West Virginia National Guard; at the time of the War of 1812, West Virginia was still part of Virginia. Only two current units, the 155th Infantry, a component of the Mississippi National Guard derived from militia units organized in the Mississippi Territory and the 130th Infantry, a component of the Illinois National Guard derived from militia units formed in the Illinois Territory, are from states or territories west of the Appalachians. Unfortunately, no militia units from the states of Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio or Tennessee, or from the Indiana, Michigan, Missouri or Louisiana Territories, where militia units played a major role in the fighting, have survived as units in the modern Army National Guard.
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  The 772nd Military Police Company traces its origins to the Cohannet Train Band, Plymouth Colony Militia.  Organized on March 3, 1638 and redesignated as the Taunton, Massachusetts Train Band in 1639, it is the oldest company-level unit in the United States Army.  The unit's first major military action was during King Philip's War (1675–1676), a conflict between the colonists and a confederation of Indian tribes organized by a Wampanoag chief named Metacom, but referred to as King Philip by the colonists, to resist expansion of white settlements in southern New England.  By 1703 the Taunton Train Band had assumed the honorific title "First Military Company," and in 1785 it became the 1st Foot Company, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division.
  Under the command of Captain Joseph Reed, Jr., the 1st Company was mustered into service on September 6, 1814, at a time when an invasion by the British was feared, and served for thirty days.  The company was deployed to New Bedford.
  Since companies are not issued Distinctive Unit Insignia, the 772nd Military Police Company wears the Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 211th Military Police Battalion, in which it serves.
caption: Distinctive Unit Insignia: 211 MP BN
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