Redcoats

And Jesus led the christian patriots to victory against the musin redcoats at Bunker Hill by charging their lines on a dinosaur … ❋ Unknown (2010)

The surviving Highlanders had retreated to the ridge with the Warwickshire men who had lived through the mauling fight in the streets and now they had been joined by Portuguese ca-adores, redcoats from the English shires, skirmishers from the valleys of Wales and by Hanoverians loyal to King George III; all mingled as they stood shoulder to shoulder to hold the heights and drown Fuentes de Onoro in smoke and lead. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)

After all, the redcoats were all about maintaining the status quo – in favor of the monarchy and their vested interests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After nightfall, the two lanterns burning in the belfry of Boston's Old North Church alerted Paul Revere and other watchers that the British soldiers called redcoats or regulars would arrive by water. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

Among those captured by the redcoats was a small boy, thirteen years of age. ❋ W. F. Markwick (N/A)

Shoulders tense, eyes focused down the length of. 22-caliber rifles, they're trying to take out the "redcoats" with 13 bullets-one for each of the original colonies.

Shoulders tense, eyes focused down the length of. 22-caliber rifles, they're trying to take out the "redcoats" with 13 bullets - one for each of the original colonies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shoulders tense, eyes focused down the length of. 22-caliber rifles, they're trying to take out the 'redcoats' with 13 bullets - one for each of the original colonies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shoulders tense, eyes focused down the length of. 22-caliber rifles, they're trying to take out the "redcoats" with 13 bullets _ one for each of the original colonies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the "redcoats" in the media go to war with the Tea Party Movement, it will only reinforce the notion that traditional American values are, in fact, under attack.

New York had already been lost to the British, armies of redcoats and Hessian mercenaries were poised to cut off New England, and British plans were afoot to conquer Philadelphia and crush the rebellion. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The redcoats retreated, leaving behind 700 of their own to feed the local insects. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Facing demotion in the aftermath, Washington resigned his commission, then in 1755 attached himself as a volunteer to General Edward Braddock, who was leading a new force of redcoats and provincials against the French on the Ohio. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Yet the redcoats fought stoutly, if ineptly, until the very end, when the retreat turned into a rout. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Bouquet summoned almost all troops not required to guard rear depots, while Virginians continued to complain about the harm done them by redcoats in league with Pennsylvanians. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The contrast between the close-order formations of the redcoats and the open order of the Indians firing from cover, however, is spot on. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

This lingering anxiety in the British body politic reached its apotheosis in the rather more determined rebellion of 1745, led by Charles Edward, which culminated in the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army was no match for the British—both English and Scots—redcoats. ❋ Allan Mallinson (2011)

The mere appearance of these spit-and-polish redcoats raised the question of relative rank that annoyed Washington and his officers. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)