Lacedaemonians(The). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. So called because in 1777 their colonel made a long harangue, under heavy fire, on the Spartan discipline and military system. (See Redfeathers.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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