Word: redcoated
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They marched off, passed the Lexington Green, entered the Revolutionary graveyard. The minister in charge offered a blessing and announced that the consul would decorate the grave of a British redcoat in "memory" of Anglo-American relations...
...Reading life by . . . flashes of vulgarity," said Oscar Wilde of the writer, who, in the midst of the decadent Nineties, was celebrating the glories of the common British redcoat in the accents of the British music hall...
...Band struck up a few marches until William Dawes could arrive. With a clattering of hoofs and a hail of laughter, he finally appeared, followed by a particularly red-faced Redcoat. In the midst of the resulting confusion, the placard-bearers' chieftan, Roy Gootenberg, was protesting vigorously the police's attempt to remove his signs. "Freedom of speech...freedom of opinion...freedom of speech..."plus a long list of Supreme Court cases was all that this reporter could hear above the din of William Dawes' revisitation. The placard wavers rushed out into Garden Street still citing court decisions, raised their...
...screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...
...could not hold back a horde that moved on foot, without air support, without armor and with hardly any weapon larger than a mortar. The American fighting man had moved a long way from the revolutionary rabble of 1775; he had become, in a manner of speaking, the British Redcoat of 1950-confident of superiority and aware of the power of a great nation behind him, but unable to cope with ragged characters firing from ambush...