British Soldiers

British Soldier may refer to:

  • A member of the British Armed Forces, particularly the British Army
  • The lichen Cladonia cristatella, a type of cup lichen commonly known as "British Soldiers"

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or soldiers:

    “All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
    —June Jordan (b. 1939)

    “When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle- field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)