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- From: Peter Cash <cash@convex.com>
- Subject: Re: Napoleon's Guard (Re: Prussian Military)
- Message-ID: <Bzs8ut.LEK@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Keywords: books history prussia
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- Organization: The Instrumentality
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:41 GMT
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- From Peter Cash <cash@convex.com>
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- On a (possibly) related note, I've run across mention of German cavalry
- used in WW I called the "Uhlans". Can anyone tell me what kind of units
- these were, and anything about their history? The name strikes me as
- peculiar--it has no meaning in German.
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