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Redleg is a term used to refer to poor whites that live or at one time lived on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands. Their forebears were sent from England , Scotland , Ireland , and Continental Europe as indentured servants , forced labourers, or peons .
Clint Eastwood's Missourian character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) took up the Confederate cause after Redleg Jayhawkers from Kansas killed his son and raped and murdered his wife. Jayhawker Colonel James Montgomery was portrayed as a racist, vengeful, and larcenous commander of a black regiment in the 1989 film Glory , where he is ...
"Red Legs" Greaves was allegedly a Scottish buccaneer active in the Caribbean and the West Indies during the 1670s. [1] His nickname came from the term Redlegs used to refer to the class of poor whites who lived on colonial Barbados.
Redlegs are the class of poor whites who lived on the colonial Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, and other Caribbean islands.. Redlegs may also refer to: . The Cincinnati Reds baseball team from 1953 to 1958
Bothriochloa macra, commonly known as red-leg grass, [2] red grass, [2] redleg [3] or pitted beard grass [3] is a perennial grass species that is native to eastern Australia and New Zealand. [3] It is naturalised in Tasmania and Norfolk Island .
Kennedy was born in Carnesville, Georgia. [2] Signed before the 1939 season as an amateur free agent by the New York Yankees, Kennedy pitched three seasons in the low minors without much distinction before missing the 1943–45 seasons while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Just as in the 1956 season, the Reds were once again in first place at mid-season when, fan voting for the 1957 All-Star Game starting players determined that no fewer than seven Redleg players (Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Don Hoak, Frank Robinson, Gus Bell and Wally Post) had been elected to start in the All-Star Game, a record that still stands.
The Mexican redleg or red-legged tarantula (Brachypelma emilia) is a species of terrestrial tarantula closely related to the famous Mexican redknee tarantula. Like the redknee it is a docile tarantula and popular in the pet trade. It is slow growing and, like many tarantulas, females can live for decades. [citation needed]