What I find hilarious is that "redcoats" was a keyword for you too! Ah, American education.
my passive memory is, while good, not nearly as useful as hers is because my passive memory doesn't cross-reference well!
To be fair, even as a kid/teenager, I had more points than just the American Revolution to cross-reference on this. Namely the French and Indian War (=the Seven Years' War in North America!), in which I learned repeatedly that the Native Americans waged successful guerrilla warfare while the Brits wandered around the forest in in bright red coats like idiotic walking targets until they finally were forced to adapt their tactics (no idea whether this is true, but it's what I learned in school), and also a Simon and Garfunkel song that I loved, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," which has the line "blazing in scarlet battalions," which I always took to mean the British.
Speaking of the bluecoats though, Prussian blue is a thing to this day, and the possibly better known prussic acid derived from it. Note that the former was named in 1709.
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Re: The FW-Fritz-Quantz-Katte tale (Nicolai version)
Date: 2021-02-28 01:16 pm (UTC)my passive memory is, while good, not nearly as useful as hers is because my passive memory doesn't cross-reference well!
To be fair, even as a kid/teenager, I had more points than just the American Revolution to cross-reference on this. Namely the French and Indian War (=the Seven Years' War in North America!), in which I learned repeatedly that the Native Americans waged successful guerrilla warfare while the Brits wandered around the forest in in bright red coats like idiotic walking targets until they finally were forced to adapt their tactics (no idea whether this is true, but it's what I learned in school), and also a Simon and Garfunkel song that I loved, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," which has the line "blazing in scarlet battalions," which I always took to mean the British.
Speaking of the bluecoats though, Prussian blue is a thing to this day, and the possibly better known prussic acid derived from it. Note that the former was named in 1709.