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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: Napoleon's Guard (Re: Prussian Military)
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- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:31:50 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Peter Cash writes:
- #On a (possibly) related note, I've run across mention of German cavalry
- #used in WWI 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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- Polish lancer regiments were designated pulky ulanow, the singular of the
- latter word, "ulan", being a lancer. In that some Polish military
- terminology has obvious German origin, these may have been German lancer
- units. If not, what was the German name for lancers?
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- Further afield, and the real reason I wrote: what was the pattern of
- sword used by the French Cuirassiers during the mid to late 1800's?
- In particular, would a Mle 1822 "heavy cavalry sabre" be suitable for
- display with an 1850's period Cuirassier armor?
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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