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Pronunciation: [ɹˈɛdkə͡ʊts] (IPA)

Redcoats were the nickname given to the British soldiers who fought during the American Revolutionary War. Synonyms for the word redcoat include lobsterback, Tunic, Bloodybacks, and Scarlet Jackets. These terms were often used by American colonists who resented the presence of British soldiers in their communities. The bright red coats worn by British soldiers made them an easy target for American snipers. As a result, the term redcoat became synonymous with the enemy and was used to rally American troops during battles. Today, the term redcoat is mainly used in historical contexts to refer to British soldiers who fought in the American Revolution.
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Here we were to land some of the redcoats, and were to take the rest round to Montego Bay, at the north-west end of Jamaica.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
We had but a small chance of again escaping, should we attempt the same proceeding; but, as the blacks were within twenty paces of us, a party of redcoats dashed through the brushwood, one of their leaders being a small naval officer whom, to my joy, I recognised as Tom Pim.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
When those redcoats went away forever from New York, the Morans came back here, but the little girl they left in the school at Bethlehem, where those good Moravian Sisters have made her so sweet as themselves; so pure!
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr

Famous quotes with Redcoats

  • But the two sides are always plainly apparent in every form of the struggle, and every man inevitably shows his colors. We are all Butternuts or Bluecoats. A modem Protestant clergyman, for instance, who boils down his Bible to distill from it the one black drop of slavery, and who excuses the most horrible crimes by the sending back of Onesimus and the cursing of Ham, joins hands with the Romish Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, and burns human freedom at the stake. The scientific scholar, who from the forma- tion of Tom's shin-bone proves that Dick may whip Tom's wife and sell his children, fights in the ranks with the cruel skill that used the thumb-screw and the boots to frighten the mind from freedom. And an American convention which solemnly resolves, with one in Pennsylvania lately, that to confer the right of suffrage upon any person but a white man is a crime against the Constitution and a degradation of the white race, helps Philip II. of Spain to crush the Netherlands, fights with the redcoats at Saratoga, tears the Declaration of Independence, and fires at the flag of the United States a more shameful shot than that at Sumter.
    George William Curtis
  • Sharpe had no thought of deserting now, for now he was about to fight. If there was any one good reason to join the army, it was to fight. Not to hurry up and do nothing, but to fight the King's enemies, and this enemy had been shocked by the awful violence of the close-range volley and now they stared in horror as the redcoats screamed and ran toward them.
    Bernard Cornwell
  • For five thousand infantry would now cross the Kaitna at a place where men said the river was uncrossable, then fight an enemy horde at least ten times their number. [...] The enemy had stolen a march, the redcoats had journeyed all night and were bone tired, but Wellesley would have his battle.
    Bernard Cornwell
  • Sharpe had seen columns before, and was puzzled by them. [...] These columns had around forty men in a rank and twenty in each file. The French used such a formation, a great battering block of men, because it was simpler to persuade conscripts to advance in such an array and because, against badly trained troops, the very sight of such a great mass of men was daunting. But against redcoats? It was suicide.
    Bernard Cornwell
  • The redcoats were doing what they did best, what they were paid a shilling a day less stoppages to do: they were killing.
    Bernard Cornwell

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