A Red Coat on the loose

Graeme Marsden has been portraying a British soldier -- an infamous Red Coat -- on Patriots' Day at the Battle Green in Lexington for 15 years. Marsden is an American citizen who was born and grew up in England. He enjoys showing the British, or Loyalist, side of the Revolutionary War. In America, he says, that history is often presented with "a one-sided or jaundiced view" of the British. Check Monday's Patriot Ledger for more coverage.

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[grobo11]

You Americans pay attention now. These are your fathers.

[TiminPhoenix]

He's a pretty good actor. He conveys a good sense of what one of the Redcoats might have felt about events.

[schurchill123]

Sorry mate but that's the worst lancs accent i have ever heard. You proper sound like a yank. 15 yrs? Christ even before the act you sound like a yank. Don't forget your heritage speak like an englishman your accent was shit! As for your apologetic speech regards the rebellion.Well I hope you americans are glad, cos you are run by jews now!

[Talbot6832]

@ltlwatcher Actually there are plenty more its just Americans seem to have this infatuation with thinking their Irish - plastic paddies.

[Redcoat66]

Nice one!! If you really want to get into the head of the redcoat, you must read 'Fusilier' by Mark Urban!!! A superb read and superbly reaserched.

[ltlwatcher]

@grobo11 There are only dozen percents of English Americans nowadays in America.

[ThePalaeontologist]

Excellent rendering of the reality that British Soldiers were not Nazi monsters, but in truth good men reluctant to shoot the rebels. Britain and America have now grown so far apart in time since this war, that in spite of everything inbetween, the fact is now British and Americans - though technically allies - generally still don't like each other. I respect the Americans fighting at the time of the rebellion, but everything afterwards is yankee filth that needs wiping out. Long live Britannia.