Black Brigade

Black Brigade may refer to:

  • Black Brigades, Fascist paramilitary groups operating in northern Italy during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943
  • Certain Polish military units in World War II, including:
    • 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (Poland)
    • 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade (Poland)
    • 1st Armoured Division (Poland)
  • Racially segregated military units in United States history, including:
    • Black Brigade of Cincinnati, a military unit made up of African-Americans organized during the Civil War to protect the city of Cincinnati
    • The Black Brigade, a combat unit of elite commandos consisting of Black Loyalists, or formerly enslaved African Americans or Free Negroes who escaped to the British during the American Revolutionary War
Fictional
  • Black Brigade (film), the DVD release title of the television movie Carter's Army about a squad of all black troops charged with securing an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or brigade:

    Long sibilant-muscled trees
    Were lifting up, the black poplars.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    [John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)