Regulator - Groups of People

Groups of People

  • A member of the Royal Navy Police
  • A faction in the War of the Regulation (1760–1771)
  • A member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
  • A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
  • A vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
  • The Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)

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