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- From: Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- Subject: Shakos, Busbys and the Light Brigade
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- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Me? Organized?
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:18:57 GMT
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- From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
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- > From Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca>
- >
- > In article <BzH50K.AsH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath) writes:
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > The Light Brigade at Balaclava included the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's).
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- The first line was the 13th Lt Dragoons and 17th Lancers, the second of
- the 11th Hussars in support of the 17th. The third line comprised the
- 4th Lt Dragoons and 8th Hussars. A total of 673 men and officers.
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- Other British light cavalry present in the Crimea at one stage or
- other: 10th Hussars and 12th Lancers.
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- >
- > A hussar's hat is a shako, not a busby.
-
- Depended just exactly who you were and when! In the Crimea the 3
- British Hussar Regts wore Busby's, German (from the minor states) and
- French Hussars during Napoleonic times wore shakos, though the 11th
- Hussars (French) as raised in 1810 had white busbies for the light
- troop! I also have drawings of French hussars in shakos from the 7th
- (trumpeter, 1809 and Flanker, 1813), 8th (1809) and 12th (1813) with
- no explanatory text. (Funken's "Arms and Un iforms of the Napoleonic
- Wars)
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- The Kings German Legion Hussars wore busbies, as did the 4 Hussar
- Regts formed by the British in 1811.
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- Mike Campbell, Christchurch, New Zealand
- mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz
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