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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
We attacked British regulars who were defined combatants. Our militia's and the continental army were defined in combat because they were both armed and in the realm of battle, as well as in the case of our Army defined by uniform.
Terrorists are undefined and attack civilians.
Guerilla's use terrorist tactics on military... there's a difference.
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"Each state raised and administered its own force and appointed a commander for it. Discipline was lax and there was no single chain of command[...]
The men were dressed for the most part in homespun clothes and armed with muskets of varied types; powder and ball were short and only the barest few had bayonets."
--http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-03.htm
That is a decentralized (stateless) fighting force with no uniform--the definition of a terrorist.
Terrorists don't merely attack civilian targets and they are "both armed and in the realm of battle."