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Redcoats and British
In Hibbert's book Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes, written before " The Patriot " was released, Hibbert included no criticism of Marion.
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763.
They speak of his 1755 efforts to help British Redcoats led by Braddock in their march to defeat the French at Fort Dusquesne ( in today's Pittsburgh ).
The red coats of the British Redcoats were dyed with madder, after earlier being dyed with cochineal.
They were used in paints by Michelangelo and for the crimson fabrics of the Hussars, the Turks, the British Redcoats, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Its captain, Aaron Guild, on learning of the British marching on Lexington and Concord, to seize the munitions stored there, rode to join the fight and arrived in time to fire on the British at Concord Bridge and participate in the running battle that chased the Redcoats back to Boston.
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes.
British soldiers were known for their striking red clothing ( hence the name " Redcoats ").
It then spent two years on garrison duty in Cyprus before being shipped to the Sudan and the Mahdist War, in which it fought at the Battle of Ginnis, notable for being the last battle fought by British Redcoats.
The British Redcoats seized control of Nassau Hall in 1776, and American soldiers were forced to fire upon their own building in the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.
The Lexington Historical Society now employs the Tavern for the Museum of the British Redcoats, providing a view of April 19, 1775 from the perspective of the King's troops.
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes.

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Redcoats and Patriotes: The Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837 – 38, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 218 p. ( ISBN 0920002285 )

Redcoats and .
Pigments produced from the cochineal insect gave the Catholic cardinals their vibrant robes and the English " Redcoats " their distinctive uniforms.
Mason also managed the Ohio Valley Redcoats in 2005, winning the Roger Hanners Manager of the Year award.
The Greys won both halves of the 1993 season and defeated the Ohio Valley Redcoats in the playoffs to become the first champions of the Frontier League.
Many families fled to Connecticut, and the Redcoats periodically plundered the farms they left behind.
South Carolinian patriots, angered at the Cherokee for supporting the Redcoats, forced them to cede much of their territory with the Treaty of DeWitt ’ s Corner in 1777.
The success of Wade's efforts was shown by the rough assortment of weapons used by the Highlanders when Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Forty-Five Rising, but the Jacobites ' overwhelming victory at the Battle of Prestonpans provided them with a good supply of government firelocks and bayonets left by the fleeing Redcoats.
Although they did not arrive in time for the battle that day, they did go on to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill two months later and fought in subsequent skirmishes with the Redcoats during the war.
Redcoats provide entertainment, organise activities, and act as hosts.
Filer ( now a successful radio producer ) installed a video camera in the new ' studio ' to enable visiting celebrity interviews and ' Know your Redcoats ' discussions to be shown.
More recently a documentary series called Redcoats followed Redcoats through their seasons at Butlins.
In 1700, a settler, Nicholas Vechte, built a farmhouse of brick and stone now known as the Old Stone House, which later played a critical role in the 1776 Battle of Long Island, when American troops fought off the Redcoats long enough to allow George Washington to retreat.
His oldest son, John, was a sergeant in Exeter's company of militia that marched to fight the Redcoats around Boston.
As an officer in South Carolina's militia during the American Revolutionary War and a man with a price on his head, he trained and organized American forces to fight the invading Redcoats.
Third Lanark was known as Thirds, the Warriors, the Redcoats and the Hi Hi.
From that point on, entertainment was the very heart of Butlins and Bradford became the first of the Butlin's Redcoats.
Wooster was mortally wounded when the Redcoats unlimbered six artillery pieces and opened fire.

Wilderness and British
Throughout the 1920s Lloyd George remained a dominant figure in British politics, being frequently predicted to return to office but never succeeding ; this period of his life is covered in John Campbell's book The Goat in the Wilderness.
Harris starred in the Man in the Wilderness in 1971, Juggernaut in 1974 ( a British suspense movie about the hijacking of an ocean liner ), in 1976 in The Cassandra Crossing, along with the actresses Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner, and in a B-movie, Orca, in 1977.
The Magennises took the castle briefly in 1641, but the Blundells returned after the war and built the house on the south edge of the castle. The British horror film Wilderness starring Sean Pertwee had scenes filmed at the Dundrum Castle.
Kakwa Wildlands Park, Kakwa Provincial Park and Willmore Wilderness Park comprise the first interprovincial shared between Alberta and British Columbia.
The Skeena originates south of the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park in north western British Columbia, forming a divide with the Klappan River, a tributary of the Stikine River.
The preserve, which is a spectacular ensemble of marine and terrestrial life, is delimited by: The Tongass National Forest borders on the east and north east ; by the international boundary with Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada on the north ; by the waters of Cross Sound and Icy Strait border on the south ; and by the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Holm also has written a series starring Jane Peck, a young woman living in the 1850s ( Boston Jane: An Adventure, Boston Jane: Wilderness Days and Boston Jane: The Claim ); The Creek, a horror thriller ; a series of graphic novels for young adults illustrated by her brother Matthew ( Babymouse: Queen of the World, Babymouse: Our Hero, Babymouse: Beach Babe, Babymouse: Rock Star, Babymouse: Heartbreaker, and Camp Babymouse ); and The Stink Files, a series co-written with her husband Jonathan Hamel starring James Edward Bristlefur, a cat raised by a British secret agent who is adopted by an American family and renamed Mr. Stink after his owner is murdered.
Tracks From The Wilderness is an EP by British folk metal band Skyclad.
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park or Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada ( 9, 580 km² ).
British Columbia's Wilderness Canoe Circuit.

Wilderness and Europe
A number of religious utopian societies from Europe came to the United States from the 18th century throughout the 19th century, including the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness ( led by Johannes Kelpius ), the Ephrata Cloister, and the Harmony Society, among others.
Howe is author of a number of books of poetry, including Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems ( 1990 ), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 ( 1996 ) and The Midnight ( 2003 ), and two books of criticism, The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History ( 1993 ) and My Emily Dickinson ( 1985 ).

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