2-693-470 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. How the D.C.L.I. Won Their Red Feathers at Brandywine', 1777, (1939). Incident during the American Revolutionary War, 11 September 1777, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. American soldiers under the command of Brigadier General Anthony Wayne were attacked and put to the bayonet by British soldiers under the command of Major General Charles Grey. The Americans vowed vengeance, and the British responded by sending a message saying they would dye their white cap feathers red so that the Americans could easily identify them. From Battles for the Flag, a set of cards given away with British boys' comic The Wizard. [D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, 1939]