Rifle green is a color used in rifle regiments, such as the 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles), which wore a dark green (altho not as dark as Archer green) starting around 1800. The 95th were featured in C.S. Forester's short novel "Death to the French", know in the USA as "Rifleman Dodd".
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"My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
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