Because their uniforms were red. Think of the royal navy in Pirates of the Caribbean. ^^
Lobsters belong to class Malacostraca, characterized by 20 body segments (rarely, 21). In lobsters, a tagma or segment group called a cephalothorax is present, a fusion of the head and thorax.
Greeks.
The question isn't correctly phrased... Butterflies and lobsters both belong to a phylum called. "Arthropoda", which means they both have an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Both creatures, however, are from separate classes. Lobsters belong to a class called, "Malacostraca", which is a subset of crustaceans with a wide diversity. Butterflies belong to a class called, "insecta", which all have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body, three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
Oh, dude, a group of soldiers that starts with "co"? That would be a "company." Like, not the kind that sells you stuff, but the military kind. They're like a squad but bigger, you know? So yeah, a "company" of soldiers.
The UK equivalent is called Equity.
No, that was in the Revolutionary War where the British were called Redcoats.
Redcoats or lobsterback.
Redcoats :)
The people of Boston (Aka the Patriots) had some pretty mean names for the British soldiers. They were called Redcoats due to their red uniforms, and Lobseterbacks because back then everyone hated lobsters and the uniforms were red. They also called them Regulars, Kings men, and other names still around today.
Redcoats was one nickname.
Redcoats
Lobsters
i believe they called them lobsterbacks mainly because of the red coats that they wore.
Tommies or if naval personnel Limeys or historically Redcoats
"Redcoats" or by the rebels they were called "lobsterbacks." also 'bloodybacks'
The British were call redcoats, lobsterbacks, regulars and bloodybacks
The British soldiers were (aptly enough) called "redcoats".