WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Redshirts (Italian: Camicie rosse or Giubbe rosse), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1860, Garibaldi led the famous Expedition of the Thousand to South Italy. Fresh volunteers kept joining through the course of the campaign, till their numbers grew to about 30, 000. They were popularly known as Red Shirts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -He gathered about a thousand volunteers called i Mille (the Thousand), or the Redshirts as popularly known, in two ships named Il Piemonte and Il Lombardo, and left from Quarto, in Genoa, on 5 May in the evening and landed at Marsala, on the westernmost point of Sicily, on 11 May.

Detailed explanation-5: -red·shirt ˈred-ˌshərt. : a college athlete who is kept out of varsity competition for a year in order to extend eligibility.