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International Brigade

British  

noun

  1. a military force that fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, consisting of volunteers (predominantly socialists and communists) from many countries

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But Mindaugas Lietuvninkas, a volunteer sniper with Ukraine's International Brigade, has other motivations for helping the war effort.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

Guha calls them “rebels” and likens them to the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, but this wrong-foots the reader since no soldiering awaited these travelers to India.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

The former commander of the British battalion of the International Brigade, Tom Wintringham, approached the government with plans for a home guard.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2020

‘I volunteered for the International Brigade to fight against Franco,” the anarchic British comedian Alexei Sayle once quipped.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015

It was on the stationery of the International Brigade Association in London, dated January, 1938.

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan

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