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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: British soldiers

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Bloody Sunday, on 30 January 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on 26 unarmed civilians in the Bogside area of Derry, was one of the darkest days of the Troubles.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/northern-ireland-troubles-good-friday-agreement-b2314696.html

Britain imposed heavy taxes on imports and issued “writs of assistance” entitling British soldiers to search any home for evidence that tariffs on tea or whiskey had been shirked.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/01/to-vilify-our-founders-hulus-1619-ignores-what-actually-sparked-the-american-revolution/

David, 16, is quick to reference a scene in the first episode where British soldiers search the main characters' school bus at a military checkpoint.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-65250556?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Heartwarming photographs show British soldiers helping exhausted families board some of the UK's final evacuation flights from Sudan as gun battles and explosions erupted in the war-torn country.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033531/British-soldiers-care-children-final-families-board-UK-evacuation-flight-Sudan.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

In 1942, during World War II, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering more than 50 percent casualties.

Source: https://www.limaohio.com/archive/2023/08/19/today-in-history-august-19-caesar-augustus-romes-first-emperor-dies-at-76/

In 1945, five days after Moses’ seventh birthday, British soldiers came to rescue her and her people.

Source: https://collegian.com/articles/landc/culture/2023/03/category-life-and-culture-holocaust-survivor-speaks-at-csu-on-surviving-childhood/

In the film, British soldiers Tommy (Fionn Whitehead) and Alex (Harry Styles) struggle to survive under enemy fire on the beach while suspecting that one of their own, Gibson (Aneurin Barnard), is a German spy.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/best-movies-leaving-hulu/

"It started when I saw a post that said 'If you think British soldiers shouldn't be on the streets, share this'.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64761893?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

She regrets only recently recalling, for example, an image of herself as a young child – “I can’t have been more than six” – sitting on her mother’s knee at a dinner her parents threw for British soldiers to celebrate the end of the second world war.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/21/annie-ernaux-french-writer-nobel-prize-literature

The poorly equipped Tibetans – they wore magic amulets from the Dalai Lama which they thought would spare them from the British guns – were no match for the invaders, but Capt Craster was one of 202 British soldiers killed.

Source: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23746573.bamburgh-craster-whitby-wide-eye-pictures-past/?ref=rss

When the British soldiers reached the church they were overtaken by the second car carrying Liam Lynch.

Source: https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28501