#Curassiers

[awallofswords]

And….. I’ve gone and changed it again. I’ve added the new 1788 Pattern Light Cavalry troopers Sabre, moved the 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry officers Sabre over to where the Mameluke was. The Mameluke will go up later on another display. The sword knots on the Dutch swords are reproductions. 

They are: 

Dutch m1800 Light Cavalry officer’s or NCO’s sabre

French An XI Light Cavalry officer’s sabre

French ‘Garde de Bataille’ Dragoon officer’s sword

French An XIII Heavy Cavalry troopers’ sword

French An XI Light Cavalry trooprs’ sword

Dutch m1813 No.2 Light Cavalry troopers’ sabre

Dutch m1814 No.3 Heavy Cavalry troopers’ sword

British 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry troopers’ sabre (Dutch issued as the 1813 No.1 for light cavalry)

British 1788 Pattern Light Cavalry troopers’ sabre

British 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry troopers’ sword

British 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry officer’s sword for dismounted service

British 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry officer’s sabre

British 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry officer’s sabre

#My main sword display. #French Cavalry #British Cavalry #Dutch Cavalry #Napoleonic Wars #Georgian Era #Waterloo #antiques #Light Cavalry #Heavy Cavalry #Dragoons #Hussars #Curassiers #French Army #Dutch Army #British Army #French First Empire #United Kingdom #Great Britain #Kingdom of the Netherlands #An XI Sabre #An XI Sword #1796 Pattern #1788 Pattern #Garde de Bataille

[hippography]

Kürassier, 1705

From: THE VINKHUIJZEN COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORMS, located in the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

#art #military history #curassier #kürassier #Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Uniforms #New York Public Library

[fluentisonus]

guy who's only ever read one literary account of waterloo reading another: getting a lot of les mis vibes from this

#okay only a little. but when hougoumont showed up I did go 'hougoumont!!' out loud. #& w the talk of squares & curassiers & blucher's arrival & the wood etc #<- which is just. like that's just history. but I've only read abt it in the one other place before hence the post ajhhsgh #thoughts #SAD the hollow road isn't here. but I will just have to make do with him making hands out of mud & pulling the cuirassiers down w them

[starfleetskunkworks]

Just finished up the first batch of 1st Canopian Curassiers. Tried a bit of a chaparral/beach theme for these ones as Canopus looks like it has a lot of water.

#battletech #mechwarrior #miniatures #miniature painting #tabletop gaming

[canesenzafissadimora]

Io da te non volevo nulla, o forse solo stare bene, nient'altro.

Non pretendevo che curassi le mie ferite e nemmeno che mi insegnassi che non ero capace di sentirmi vivo da solo, che le storie d'amore non sono altro che storie di vita destinate a finire.

Non volevo niente, perchè quando mi sono aspettato qualcosa, la vita mi ha risposto “tanto non succederà”, perchè quando ho provato a essere felice, ho capito che mi sarebbe bastato solo stare meno male.

Perchè quando mi sono innamorato, ho capito che da me si puó solo fuggire.

A. Dikele Distefano

[privateclubcultura]

Che ne diresti se io scrivessi le nostre storie pornografiche e tu le curassi nei minimi particolari arricchendone la trama?

RelaxBeach© (Tutti i Diritti  Riservati.) 27/01/2024

#relaxbeach©

[be-appy-71]

🔥Io da te non volevo nulla, o forse solo stare bene, nient'altro.

Non pretendevo che curassi le mie ferite e nemmeno che mi insegnassi che non ero capace di sentirmi vivo da solo, che le storie d'amore non sono altro che storie di vita destinate a finire.

Non volevo niente, perchè quando mi sono aspettato qualcosa, la vita mi ha risposto “tanto non succederà”, perchè quando ho provato a essere felice, ho capito che mi sarebbe bastato solo stare meno male.

Perchè quando mi sono innamorato, ho capito che da me si puó solo fuggire... ♠️

(A. Dikele Distefano)

[nightbringer24]

And now we arrive at the battle of Rocroi.

My only major gripe with this battle is the French curassiers firing their pistols WAY too far away from the Spanish tercio. Other than that, it's a thing to watch for sure.

#ciaran watches alatriste

[crossroad1960]

Secondo i novax è evidente la correlazione tra i vaccini e il pestaggio🤡

[abbicuradime89]

Mi innervosisci,

Un po’ perche sono già nervosa

Ma sono sicura che tu peggiori la situazione.

Un misto di idee e pareri che si fondono senza mai crearne uno stabile,

L’unica certezza è la voglia di morire

Ma nemmeno questo diventa mai reale,

Non per una questione di coraggio,

Ma semplicemente perché è tutto troppo importante e così relativamente stupido

La testa è l’unica cosa che ti può salvare da questa agonia,

Ma non collabora mai,

Ti odio,

perché,

non capisci la parte piena d’acqua del bicchiere

O meglio,

non vuoi vederlo proprio

E quelle poche volte che realizzi di avercelo avanti,

Ti auto convinci che sia un’allucinazione

Te ne vorrei comprare uno

Con incisa la descrizione in braille,

Ma anche in quel caso non sono sicura che realizzeresti

Sarebbe bello che curassi l’astigmatismo che da tanto ti perseguita

È tutto dannatamente difficile e così facile,

Ma dipende da te stesso,

E le cose che dipendono da noi,

Consistono nelle peggiori guerre dell’esistenza

[medieval-shitposter]

favorite armor style? mine is probably maximillian and cuirassier

Definitely gothic, I mean

Look at this. Stunning. Beautiful. 10/10.

Maximillian is also pretty neat (I love the fluting!!), and while curassier armour looks a lil weird to my eye (dem legs???) I absolutely have to share what is my favourite curassier art ever:

Bang ™

#armour #gothic armour #maximillian armour #curassiers #curassiercore #ask

[hippography]

Kürassier, 1740

From: THE VINKHUIJZEN COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORMS, located in the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

#art #curassier #Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Uniforms #New York Public Library

[crocutable]

loose English Civil War sketch

#ecw #english civil war #lobsterbacks #curassiers #armor #musketeer #matchlock

[a-doll-like-you]

Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma ‘scratches an itch’ with his aiguillette after parade 

#regalia #hat hair #charles #lord mountbatten #aiguillette #aguillette #curassier #medals #scarlets and gold #cavalry #epaulette #breastplate #fun #prince charles #royals #brf #brfamily #royalty

[peashooter85]

Curassier's half armor, Europe, early 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

#history #antiques #armor #armour

[everyonewasabird]

Brickclub 2.1.11 ‘Bad guide for Napoleon, good guide for Bulow’

A short chapter about the moment the tide turns in this battle.

Napoleon squints into the distance and can’t see, quite--he thinks maybe it’s help for him. Others think it’s just trees. In fact, it’s the force that will destroy him. The order is given, and the cannonballs begin to rain down.

And the difference was made by two peasants, one who led the French forces wrongly, the other who gave good advice to the reinforcements for the English. Such are the inscrutable workings of Providence in this book.

seeing the peril Wellington was in, Blücher ordered Bülow to attack and said this remarkable thing: “We must give the English army time to come up for air.”

@synteis has pointed out the huge, discordant contrast between the horror of the human loss and Napoleon’s blithe disregard for it--this catastrophic loss isn’t at all incompatible with success for him. Wellington is maybe half a shade better, looking at the decimated curassiers fighting like centaurs and whispering, “Sublime”--an acknowledgment of other men’s greatness in the face of horrors during his own defeat and a nod to one of the novel’s central themes, vs. Napoleon’s utter disconnection--but he doesn’t see the horror of war and death for what is either.

But in the above quote, someone in charge sees and acknowledges the drowning metaphor that we always come back to in this book. That acknowledgment turns the tide of history.

#brickclub #lm 2.1.11