General Flynn recently commented that POTUS could declare Martial Law to redo the election in the Swing States, and that Martial Law had been declared 64 times before...

So I took a look into all the times Martial law had been declared...

(a thread) https://twitter.com/TrumpLadyFran/status/1339885863270903808?s=20
The first thing I saw was that it seems Martial Law had been declared in the United States 68 times!
Declarations of Martial Law can be categorized by the precipitating event, as follows:

- War or Invasion (2)
- Domestic War or Insurrection (7)
- Riot or Civil Unrest (11)
- Labor Dispute (29)
- Natural Disaster (4)
- Other (15)

Let's take a look at all them in order.
1. Gen. Andrew Jackson declared ML on Dec. 12, 1814, in New Orleans, stemming from the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. This was the first declaration of ML in US history. https://www.nps.gov/articles/andrew-jackson-and-martial-law-in-new-orleans.htm
Winter 1814: Andrew Jackson declares martial law in New Orleans (U.S. National Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/articles/andrew-jackson-and-martial-law-in-new-orleans.htm
2. On June 25, 1842, the Rhode Island General Assembly declared ML during the Dorr Rebellion, an insurrection led by middle-class residents to force broader democracy. This was the first time that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a declaration of ML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorr_Rebellion
3. On Sept. 15, 1857, Utah Governor Brigham Young declared ML under his authority as the territorial governor to facilitate armed resistance to approaching federal troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War 
4. On Aug. 30, 1861, Gen. John C. Fremont declared ML. Known later as the Fremont Emancipation, he decreed that all property of those bearing arms in rebellion would be confiscated, including slaves who would subsequently be declared free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9mont_Emancipation
5. On Sept. 24, 1862, Pres. Lincoln during the US Civil War declared ML not over land but over "all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States." Proclamation 94 notably suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-94-suspending-the-writ-habeas-corpus
6. On July 5, 1864, Pres. Lincoln declared ML in Kentucky under Proclamation 113.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-113-declaring-martial-law-and-further-suspension-the-writ-habeas-corpus
7. On July 30, 1866, ML was declared in response to the New Orleans Massacre of 1866. In case you were wondering, it was Democrats who did the killing of the unarmed black protesters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_massacre_of_1866
8. On March 2, 1867, the 40th Congress declared ML over the States of the former Confederacy, except Tennessee, in what would be known as Radical Reconstruction.

https://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/section3/
9. On July 8, 1870, Gov. William Holden declared ML in Caswell and Alamance counties, North Carolina, during the Kirk-Holden War, a struggle against the KKK which started when a Republican state senator was murdered by the KKK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%E2%80%93Holden_war
10. On October 11, 1871, Mayor R. B. Mason declared ML in response to the Great Chicago Fire to protect the city from looting and violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire
11. On August 2, 1877, Gov. Hartranft declared ML in response to the Scranton general strike, which occurred during the Great Railroad Strike, and was the last of a number of violent outbreaks in Pennsylvania at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton_general_strike
12. On Feb. 8, 1886, Washington Territorial Gov. Squire declared ML in response to anti-Chinese rioting in Seattle. Pres. Grover Cleveland also issued an order to disperse under the Insurrection Act on Feb. 9, 1886.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_riot_of_1886
13. On August 16, 1889, Gov. Ross declared ML in Fort Bend County, Texas, during the Jaybird-Woodpecker War, "a feud between the Jay Bird Democratic Association,an all-White political organization formed in 1887 by young men to challenge and regain control...
...of the county government from the biracial coalition of former White and Black Republicans (the Woodpeckers)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaybird%E2%80%93Woodpecker_War
14. On July 11, 1892, Gov. N. B. Willey declared ML in Shoshone County, Idaho, due to a violent labor strike and struggle between mine operators and miners in and around Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_Coeur_d%27Alene_labor_strike
15. On July 12, 1892, Gov. Robert E. Pattison declared ML in Homestead, Pennsylvania, as a result of a labor strike in what would become a pivotal moment in US labor history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
16. On November 21, 1898, Gov. John Riley Tanner declared ML in Pana, Illinois, stemming from a Coal miner strike.

https://hinton-gen.com/coal/1898strike.html
17. On May 4, 1899, Gov. Frank Steunenberg declared ML in Shoshone County Idaho, as a result of another violent struggle between mine operators and Western Federation of Miners in and around Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.
18. On August 23, 1900, Gov. George K. Nash declared ML in Akron, Ohio, as a result of civil unrest stemming from a mob attacking the police in attempt at vigilante justice over a rapist in what later became known as the Akron Riot of 1900.

https://blogs.uakron.edu/rubbercityrevisited/2014/02/20/akron-riot-of-1900/
19. On September 11, 1900, Mayor Walter C. Jones declared ML in Galveston, Texas, because of the Great Galveston hurricane where between 6K and 12K people died in what is known as the deadliest natural disaster in US history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
20. On May 5, 1901, Gov. W. S. Jennings declared ML in Jacksonville, Florida, as a result of a conflagration later known as the Great Fire of 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the third largest urban fire in the U.S history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1901
21. On October 6, 1902, Gov. William Stone declared ML in several Pennsylvania counties as miners striked for higher wages and threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to several major cities.

https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/coalstrike
22. On December 4, 1903, Gov. James Peabody declared ML in Teller County, Colorado, as a result of miner strikes in what would later become known as the Colorado Labor Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars
23. On January 4, 1904, Gov. James Peabody declared ML in San Miguel County, Colorado, in another of the miner strikes in the Colorado Labor wars.
24. On March 23, 1904, Gov. James Peabody once again declared ML in San Miguel County, Colorado, in yet another of the miner strikes in the Colorado Labor wars.
25. On March 23, 1904, Gov. James Peabody declared ML for in Las Animas County, Colorado, in for the final time in the miner strikes in the Colorado Labor wars.
26. On September 2, 1912, the unfortunately named Gov. William E. Glasscock declared ML as labor strikes shut down two streams in Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, West Virginia, as the ensuing violence cost over $100MM dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Creek%E2%80%93Cabin_Creek_strike_of_1912
27. On November 15, 1912, the unfortunately named Gov. William E. Glasscock once again declared ML in Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, West Virginia.
28. On February 10, 1913, Gov. Glasscock declared ML again in Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, West Virginia, as coal operators deployed a special armored train in what became known as the "Bull Moose Special attack on Holly Grove miners' settlement.

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/707 
29. On March 27, 1913, Brig. Gen. George H. Wood declared ML in Dayton, Ohio, as flooding by the Great Miami River reached Dayton, Ohio, causing the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history in what is later known as the Great Dayton Flood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dayton_Flood
30. On November 4, 1913, Gov. Samuel Ralston declared ML in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 and subsequent police mutiny led to a breakdown in public order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_streetcar_strike_of_1913
31. On September 1, 1914, Gov. Samuel Stewart declared ML in Butte, Montana, as the Butte Montana labor riots culminated in the dynamiting of the Butte Miners’ Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte,_Montana_labor_riots_of_1914
32. On August 24, 1917, Gov. James Ferguson declared ML in Houston, Texas, as the Camp Logan Mutiny (also called the Houston Riot of 1917) stemmed from black soldiers mutinying in response to harassment by the Houston police towards the black community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_riot_of_1917
33. On July 12, 1919, Gov. William P. Hobby declared ML in Longview, Texas, as the Longview race riot of 1919 peaked with whites attacking black parts of town, killing one and burning several homes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longview_race_riot
34. On October 6, 1919, Gen. Leonard Wood declared ML in Gary, Indiana, as steel workers tried to unionize in the immediate post-war period in what would later be known as the Steel strike of 1919.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1919
35. On February 9, 1920, Gen. Francis C. Marshall declared ML in Fayette County, Kentucky, stemming from a lynch mob attempting to storm Lexington courthouse in response to a young girls murder (and maybe rape.) https://crimecapsule.com/100-years-later-the-murder-that-spurred-a-mob-riot-in-lexington/
100 Years Later: The murder that spurred a mob riot in Lexington - Crime Capsule

In 1920, ten-year-old Geneva Hardman was murdered on her way to school, just outside Lexington. Both civil authorities and a growing lynch mob sought Will Lockett, a black army veteran, as the...

https://crimecapsule.com/100-years-later-the-murder-that-spurred-a-mob-riot-in-lexington/
36. On June 7, 1920, Gov. William P. Hobby declared ML in Galveston, Texas, in another labor dispute known as the Galveston Longshoremen's Strike.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-longshoremens-strike-of-1920
37. On November 27, 1920, Gov. John Cornwell declared ML in Mingo County, West Virginia, in yet another labor dispute between miners and mine operators, later known as the West Virginia Coal Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
38. On May 19, 1921, the new Governor, Ephraim P. Morgan, also declared ML in Mingo County, West Virginia, as part of the ongoing the West Virginia Coal Wars.
39. On June 1, 1921, Gen. Charles Barrett declared ML in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized & given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents & businesses in what is later known as the Tulsa Race Riot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
40. On January 27, 1922, Gov. Samuel McKelvie declared ML in Nebraska City, Nebraska, in another labor dispute, this time at a packing plant. https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/29/archives/state-troops-called-out-martial-law-declared-in-nebraska-city.html
STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT.; Martial Law Declared In Nebraska City Because of Strike Trouble. (Publi...

https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/29/archives/state-troops-called-out-martial-law-declared-in-nebraska-city.html
41. Between June 26, 1923 and September 16, 1923, Gov. John C. Walton declared ML in various parts of Oklahoma challenging Ku Klux Klan activity (all lumped together as one ML incident due to cause). https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/crime-history-martial-law-declared-over-klan-in-oklahoma-118306
Crime History: Martial law declared over Klan in Oklahoma

On this day, Sept. 15, in 1923, Oklahoma Gov. John C. Walton put the state under martial law to combat the violence of the Ku Klux Klan.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/crime-history-martial-law-declared-over-klan-in-oklahoma-118306
42. On November 1, 1924, Gov. A. Victor Donahey declared ML in Niles, Ohio, as anti-Klan forces challenged an approved KKK riot leading to 18 hours of violence in what would later be known as the Anti-Klan riot of 1924. https://www.thecityofniles.com/discover-us/our-history/significant-events/
Significant Events - City of Niles

Great Flood of 1913 On March 23, 1913, Easter Sunday, a large majority of Ohio, the Niles area included, began to receive a large amount of heavy rain that lasted all night and all the next day...

https://www.thecityofniles.com/discover-us/our-history/significant-events/
43. On May 10, 1930, Gov. Dan Moody declared ML in Sherman, Texas, in a major incident of racial violence that would later be known as the Sherman Riot of 1930.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/sherman-riot-of-1930
44. On July 24, 1931, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (great nickname) declared ML over a section of Oklahoma's border with Texas because of a toll bridge conflict (seriously?) in what is later known as the Red River Bridge War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War
45. On August 4, 1931, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray declared ML over Oklahoma oil fields in a nonviolent dispute between state government and oil producers over oil production limits.

(This declaration is a little different than the others.)

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HO036&l=
46. On August 17, 1931, Gov. R. S. Sterling did the same as Alfalfa Bill in declaring ML over several counties in Texas in a onviolent dispute over oil production limits between state government and both oil producers and the federal courts.

https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/exec/governors/17.html
47. On May 26, 1932, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray again declared ML over Oklahoma oil fields in a nonviolent dispute between state government and oil producers over oil production limits.
48. On June 21, 1932, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray once again declared ML over Oklahoma oil fields in a nonviolent dispute between state government and oil producers over oil production limits.
49. On March 4, 1933, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray declared ML for the final time over Oklahoma oil fields in a nonviolent dispute between state government and oil producers over oil production limits.

(Starting to think Gen. Flynn counted all these declarations as one.)
50. On May 1, 1933, Gov. William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray declared ML for a different reason in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an attempt to create "segregation zones" later declared illegal by the courts.

(wow, Alfalfa Bill was a real peace of crap, eh)

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NA001
51. On June 19, 1933, Gov. Eugene Talmadge declared ML in response to a "Coup de highway department" in and around Highway Board of Georgia headquarters building (in what seems like an abuse of power to me). http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745726,00.html
National Affairs: Martial Law

Martial law was declared in Georgia last week. No criminal disturbance had taken place. There was neither epidemic, catastrophe nor race riot. Governor Eugene Talmadge was simply having it out with...

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745726,00.html
75% of the way done in our march through the history of Martial Law in the United States.

It's been interesting. I consider myself highly educated & I don't know about most of these, so I can imagine how little the rest of the public knows. This is why the threat seems so great.
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