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- From: Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- Subject: Shakos, Busby's and the Light Brigade
- Message-ID: <BzzCrB.IJ@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Me? Organized?
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:33:10 GMT
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- From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
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- > From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
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- > 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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- Opps - should read "Busbies". Sorry.
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- Mike Campbell, Christchurch, New Zealand
- mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz
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