Red Cross Knights.
The Knights Templars were so called.
Red Cross League.
See Geneva Convention.
Red Cross Society.
The generic name of the various associations formed, under the Geneva Convention, for the relief of the wounded in war. The Red Cross is the badge of military hospitals, ambulances, doctors, etc.
Red Prince.
The sobriquet of Prince Frederick Charles (1828-1885), nephew of William I of Germany.
Red River Rebellion.
An outbreak in 1869 of the half-breed settlers on the Red River, who resented the transfer of their settlement from the Hudson’s Bay Company to the newly formed province of Manitoba. It was found necessary to send regular troops against the insurgents, and the revolt was promptly quelled by Colonel (now Viscount) Wolseley. Their leader, Louis Riel, escaped, and was later the ringleader in the rising of 1885 known as Riel’s Rebellion.