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- From: Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca>
- Subject: Re: Prussian Military
- Message-ID: <Bzo8DB.BID@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University of Toronto - Office of the Provost
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:24:46 GMT
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- From Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca>
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- In article <BzH50K.AsH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath) writes:
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- >The "600" of Charge of the Light Brigade fame were Hussars (if I'm not
- >mistaken). I believe the coat was designed that way to leave the
- >sword hand free.
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- The Light Brigade at Balaclava included the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's).
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- A hussar's hat is a shako, not a busby.
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- And the Hussar wore two coats: a dolmen, which was a heavily frogged
- coat which was worn closed, and a pelisse, which was a fur-lined coat
- worn as a cape -- always open, though it was fully frogged. The
- pelisse was worn to look cool and to provide some protection to the
- off-shoulder, where it hung.
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- Aryk Nusbacher
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