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:
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—John Huston (1906–1987)
“Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
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