This consisted of traders, policemen, plantation labourers and colonial soldiers (see sepoys).

Many of them consist of traders, policemen, coolies, plantation labourers and colonial soldiers.

In the numerous French and Indian wars the British government poured money in to purchase supplies, build roads and pay colonial soldiers.

The Waikato campaign cost the lives of 700 British and colonial soldiers and about 1000 Māori.

It was not only those who married colonial soldiers who emigrated.

Because of this, the British had difficulty in finding troops and as a result, many colonial soldiers enlisted.

Since the beginning of the colonial conquest the Kingdom of Italy created military units with colonial soldiers.

As colonial soldiers retired, the government granted them vast "ranchos" as partial or full payment, or in gratitude, for their services.

The Spirits of '76 - Three ghosts all dressed as colonial soldiers.

Wiebbe Hayes (born about 1608) was a colonial soldier from Winschoten, Netherlands.