It isn't simile, because there is no comparison to anything, and it isn't ironic.
Sentences could be simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. The type of sentence that is representative of the sentence above is;
A compound-complex sentence is one that has two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
Note that independent clauses are groups of words that can make complete meaning on their own while dependent clauses are the opposite.
In the sentence given, the independent clauses are;
- At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the Americans had no existing army.
- So American troops were formed from militia.
The dependent clause is;
- Groups of citizens from the thirteen colonies who were trained for local defense.
Therefore the sentence is compound-complex.
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