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| | | (...) Indeed. But the early 80's tyre stockpile has to run out sooner or later... (...) Dragoons, huh? Interesting you should mention dragoons.... (...) I generally think of my ships' cannon as 18 pounders, and this is about half the calibre.... But (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | (...) Yes, isn't it... BWA HA HAH HA HAH AH HAH AHAH AH HAH AHAA HA! *cough* 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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) That's the point of dragoons, isn't it?.... That they can get off and walk if they need too. (...) Aghh! It's not moderated yet! (...) Sounds great. Oh for a deep link to a pic... but I guess I can wait. (...) Always good to have some (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) [snip] (...) It is now! And very impressive they look too. (...) The green facings on the Admiral pattern torso do look the part! The forward facing small plumes are a nice touch (which I've noted for future reference!). Shouldn't dragoons be (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | >Shouldn't dragoons be armed with muskets rather than pistols, though? (Or is (...) These chaps are carrying carbines, just on the other side of the saddle... unfortunately, I'm saving the 15 regular muskets I have left after arming my (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) I cut off the flaired end of Lego muskets to make carbines for my Dragoons. I'll have to try the tire-hat-thingy. (...) Lancers. :-) (...) Oh man, and I just started my superficial research by getting Sharpe's Rifles. Up to page 110. All those (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)) —Kenneth Tam
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| | | | (...) If only I had that many extras... for now, I'm calling them Baker-pattern rifles... apparently (according to Brassey's History of the Uniform: Napoleonic Wars Wellington's Army) Dragoons carried them. This lets me arm a few riflemen with them, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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