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...than-air dirigibles. The British firm Airship Industries is developing a 600-ft. freight-carrying airship. Unlike the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg, whose 1937 explosion at Lakehurst, N.J., doomed airship travel, the new dirigibles will be filled with inert, nonflammable helium rather than potentially dangerous hydrogen. Britain's Redcoat Cargo Airlines will take delivery of four of the $9.5 million skyships beginning in 1984. The airline claims that they will cost slightly less to operate than a jumbo jet and have 56% more cargo space. The airships, which will be powered by four 1,150 h.p. turboprop engines, will...
Eventually the colonials camped in Cambridge succeeded in starving their Redcoat foes out of Boston--that ended the Revolutionary War in New England, and even before fighting had ceased elsewhere, Massachusetts citizens gathered in Cambridge to ratify the state Constitution. Drafted by John Adams, the document ended property qualifications for voting and set forth the rights of citizens to alter their government...
...closed its eyes to the activities of both European and American gunrunners. So far, however, supply has not even begun to keep up with demand, and American soldiers are severely rationed, with a daily allowance at times of only nine musket rounds per man, v. 60 for each redcoat. This shortage has given rise to a sizable and complex business...
Lobsterback. Apparently a euphemism for redcoat. Yes, you guessed it, another Bicentennial play, but with a new twist--this one was written by British dramatist James Forsyth, and appropriately enough concerns the difficulties faced by a young British soldier and the Milton family that befriends him. Like Ryan's Yorktown Tune, this play was especially commissioned by Tufts University in honor of the Bicentennial, and it promises to be as good as the previous production, if not better. At the Jufts Arena Theater in Medford at 8:15 tonight and tomorrow, July 22-26 and July 29-August 2. Tickets...
Loyalists supplied the redcoats with food when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...