Redshirt
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Redshirt (plural Redshirts)
- Alternative form of Red Shirt
- 1986, Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order, →ISBN:
- Like the leaders they opposed, they had participated in the "Redshirt" campaign of 1876 and 1877 that redeemed the state for home rule and founded the new establishment.
- 2011, A Year on The Sauce, →ISBN, page 19:
- Families and supporters of the Redshirt protesters in Thailand handed in a letter to the London embassy yesterday calling for an end to the killings and suppression of pro-democracy campaigners.
- 2013, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Istanbul, Rome and Jerusalem: Titans of the Holy Cities, →ISBN:
- In this process, known as the Risorgimento, Garibaldi led his Redshirt followers to decisive victories over the Spanish Bourbon and Austrian Habsburg dynasties that still ruled much of Italy.