 This reduction led to the 22 March 1753 resolution for a militia that would be raised from the colonists to establish the security of the colony, in which all British subjects between the ages of 16 and 60 were compelled to serve.On April 21, 1753, at Torbay, the Mi'kmaq fighters killed two British.Throughout 1753, French authorities on Cape Breton Island were paying Mi'kmaq warriors for the scalps of the British.