"Soldier"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/27/2009 05:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>   (I doubt that any American much cared whether they
>called foreign marines "soldiers" or not.)

What did the American colonials call the English marines?  This may
go back to before the Revolution, to the 1740 War of Jenkins' Ear,
when Americans joined the British expedition in the Caribbean.

Joel

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