British redcoats
Scarlet-uniformed infantry soldiers
British redcoats were soldiers of the British Army, named for their distinctive red uniform coats worn from the 17th through 19th centuries.
The term appears most often in American contexts referring to British forces during the Revolutionary War: The redcoats are coming!
Now used historically or in period reenactments.
- American Revolutionary WarColonial independence struggle
- infantryGround combat troops
- standing armyContinuously maintained military force
- marching formationStructured troop movement arrangement
- Napoleonic WarsBonaparte's military campaigns
Crimean War · musket · musket ball · cavalry · epaulettes · powder horn · military uniform · dragoons · grenadiers · colonialism · historical reenactment · French and Indian War · bayonet · Lexington and Concord · Boston Massacre · line infantry · Seven Years' War · artillery
- Lexington and ConcordLexington, Concord, minutemen, militia, Paul Revere
- Zulu WarCetshwayo, Zulu warriors, assegai, Zululand, buffalo horns
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- warriorsfighter, knight, footsoldier, barbarian, samurai
British redcoatsContinental Army
Colonial rebel military force
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