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Old 10-10-2005, 05:12 PM
Lazymeatball Lazymeatball is offline
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Default Re: What a badass.

I don't have a source on this but I believe that at the time when Cromwell formed the first formal English Army the cheapest available dye was red, and so that's what they used on the uniforms. Before then England had never really had a formal uniform for it's army.
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