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Re: Dragoons! (was Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!))
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Tue, 1 Oct 2002 02:38:55 GMT
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> Dragoons, huh? Interesting you should mention dragoons....
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 across the channel...
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)...
And they will doubtless remain, despite the fact that Newfoundland is
horrible horse country...
Here we are: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=26135
Note the green facings (thank you Photoshop) and the smart-looking
tarletons! 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...
Can't wait to have a few tavern brawls between them and the locals... or the
regular redcoats... oooooooooh...
> > 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!).
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> *Evil grin*
Somehow I'm glad to be an ocean away. Quite glad.
; )
Kenneth Tam
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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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