In 1786, Secretary of War Henry Knox ordered Col. Harmar to the outpost village of Vincennes to drive away the Kentucky militia, who fled at the approach of the First American Regiment.
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The First American Regiment was the first peacetime regular army force authorized by United States Congress after the American Revolutionary War.
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