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Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!))
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 1 Oct 2002 04:45:20 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> > Dragoons, huh? Interesting you should mention dragoons....
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> Yes, isn't it... BWA HA HAH HA HAH AH HAH AHAH AH HAH AHAA HA!
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> *cough*
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> Well, in the tradition of everything that's good and British, the Admiralty
> (and more precisely, Horse Guards) have decided to steal ideas from their
> Republican friends across the channel...
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> That is to say, we're still waiting on some bearskin-wearing infantry, but
> we've made up for the loss by assigning a troop of 4th Dragoons to help
> protect the new port at Brickley's Cove, Newfoundland, from the landings of
> privateers that ravage it (until the little fort can be finished and such)...
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> And they will doubtless remain, despite the fact that Newfoundland is
> horrible horse country...
That's the point of dragoons, isn't it?.... That they can get off and walk
if they need too.
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> Here we are: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=26135
Aghh! It's not moderated yet!
> Note the green facings (thank you Photoshop) and the smart-looking
> tarletons!
Sounds great. Oh for a deep link to a pic... but I guess I can wait.
> And unlike Hussars, these chaps are proper noble snobs --
> youngest sons of Lords and the like, looking for glory, getting fashionably
> drunk and running up fashionable debts...
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> Can't wait to have a few tavern brawls between them and the locals... or the
> regular redcoats... oooooooooh...
Always good to have some interservice rivalry to keep the men on their toes, eh?
I've done a bit more superficial research... it appears that French Dragoons
favoured green coats...and I have some green torsos and cavalry helmets....
and even more interestingly, the Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard were known
for their green coats - and bearskins!
Now to figure out why the Emperor's own heavy cavalry would be in Port
Brique... on holiday perhaps?
> > > and then you'd have a reason for the Horse Artillery...
> > > harass evildoers as they down the coast to Port Brique (and if they landed
> > > Marines to capture the gun, you'd have cavalry there to stop them!).
> >
> > *Evil grin*
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> Somehow I'm glad to be an ocean away. Quite glad.
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> ; )
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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