Wednesday, 13 November 2013

9th Regt de Hussards 1812

The Hussars were light cavalry dressed in very flamboyant dolmans with flung pelisses, all heavily frogged. Musicians usually added some non-regulation items to their uniforms, in this case, this trumpeter has as a white busby and a germanic (Saxony?) shabraque.





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