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• Moritz von Anhalt Dessau commanded the Prussian right wing of 8 battalions and 7 squadrons of cavalry, while Hans von Zieten commanded the Advance Guard of light troops one jager battalion, 7 squadrons of hussars, and a battery of horse artillery. Battle of Freiberg Pictures & Report
• In fact, the lancers were a minority of those who charged: only one regiment of lancers, but two each of hussars and light dragoons.
• In 1794 he was gazetted to a cornetcy in the Tenth Hussars, the gift of its colonel the Prince of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the husband of a beauty, and in a word — an old woman; and secondly because Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized Rostov and had not responded to his greeting. War and Peace
• In the old photos the cemetery hill is bare, but now it is wooded over, and the Hussars, Cossacks, infantrymen, grenadiers and all the rest are lying in the shade of the trees.
• The Yorkshire Hussars were the county's oldest territorial regiment, and were ranked third in seniority in the country.
• Afterwards the Tsar commanded his son to be dressed in the miniature parade uniformof a Hussar of the Life Guards. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
• Great Britain "busbies" are of two kinds: (_a_) the hussar busby, cylindrical in shape, with a bag; this is worn by hussars and the Royal Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The Trooper, only the second man to be given the VC, risked his life to save a trumpeter and the second-in-command of his regiment, the Queen's Royal Hussars.
• There is a great stir in Balaklava, owing to the arrival and disembarkation of the 10th Hussars, who have come from India, and are reported to be 680 strong, and mounted on the finest Arabs in the world (at least, so says Colonel Parlby, who commands them). Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol