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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery
For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
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Edinburgh Castle and Scotland's redcoats reckoning
Almost 4,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the castle's Redcoat Cafe be renamed because of its links to the British Army's crushing defeat of the Jacobites and the Highland ...
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Patriots Day and Other Related Events
March 5: After 18 months of a British Army presence in Boston, Americans taunt the Redcoats into making a deadly mistake, shooting into a crowd and killing five men. The event, known as the Boston ...
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250 years later, British ‘troops’ retreat again from Salem
This time, the Redcoats headed to warmth ... were willing to fight the vaunted British army, and that the spark could occur at any time. “Something incredible happened right here in Salem ...
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British Leaders
Yet the Redcoats knew of some colonists' increasing ill will toward them. Some of the British leaders had lived ... and rose to his military rank in America in 1763, after fighting in the Seven ...