redcoats, lobster backs, bloody backs
Red coats.
redcoats
There were only 600 British troops stationed in Singapore by 1952. Many had already been shipped off to fight in Korea. Over half of the troops were conscripted. The rest were regular army, who represented the core of the units, short-term volunteers, and reservists.
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British regular refers to the ''regular'' land army of the United Kingdom. The term was used quite a lot during the time of the American revolutionary war, to help divide the British Army, from other forms of armed Militia.
This term stands for University of British Columbia. The person that named the university came up with this term. This is the most popular use of the term UBC. There are probably other uses for the term UCB that are not as popular.
An executive car, in British terms, is simply a car that is larger than a regular or large sized family car. The term was first used in the 1960's for target marketing purposes.
They were often simply called convicts.Or they could be known as Jayle Birds a term used in the 18th century. This was a term restricted to the American colonies.The term POMs also became popular, but it is a myth that it originated from the acronym "Prisoner of Mother England"."jayle birds"(p.90 of The American Pageant)
The term for housing troops is called quartering or billeting. The quartering of troops in private residences is expressly forbidden in the US Constitution.
The Boston Massacre. The term was coined by Samuel Adams in 1770.
The Hessians were auxilliary troops from Hess, a state in what is now Germany (The term "Hessian" is now used to refer to all German troops deployed by the Crown in the American Revolution, although not all of them were necessarily from Hess). They were most notably "rented" out by their rulers to the British during the American revolution.
The Hessians were auxiliary troops from Hess, a state in what is now Germany (The term "Hessian" is now used to refer to all German troops deployed by the Crown in the American Revolution, although not all of them were necessarily from Hess).