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With the outbreak of the Second World War, the available resources of the gun trade had been mobilised to recondition a reserve of Pattern 1914 Enfield rifles, and in 1940 the Parker-Hale Arms Company was founded. Additional premises were acquired "for the duration" of the war and, under the management of Arthur Hale, a large reconditioning ...
M1779 Hussar carbine: Private manufacturers: 1779 Girandoni air rifle: Private manufacturers: 1780 M1781 Trombon: Private manufacturers: 1781 Infanteriegewehr M1784 musket: Private manufacturers: 1784 M1788 Cavalry rifle: Private manufacturers: 1788 M1789 Cavalry rifle: Private manufacturers: 1789 M1795 Jäger rifle: Private manufacturers: 1795 ...
Swedish hussar regiments 1895–1910 5th Mounted Rifles Otago Hussars from New Zealand, 1911. On the eve of World War I, there were still hussar regiments in the British, [49] Canadian, French, [50] New Zealand, Spanish, [51] German, [52] Russian, [53] Dutch, [54] Danish, [55] Swedish, Romanian, and Austro-Hungarian armies. In most respects ...
Between 1806 and 1808, the 7th, 10th, 15th and 18th regiments of Light Dragoons of the British Army were re-designated as hussars and when the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, some became lancers. The transition from dragoons to hussars was however a slow one, affecting uniforms but not equipment and functions.
The Polish hussars (/ h ə ˈ z ɑːr s /; Polish: husaria), [a] alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1503 to 1702. Their epithet is derived from large rear wings, which were intended to demoralize the enemy during a charge.
In the United Kingdom busbies are of two kinds: (a) the hussar busby, cylindrical in shape, with a bag and cap lines (cords to connect the cap to the tunic); this is worn by hussars and the Royal Horse Artillery; (b) the rifle busby, a folding cap of astrakhan (curly lambswool) formerly worn by rifle regiments, in shape somewhat resembling a ...
Redesignated on 15 March 1920 as The King's (Nova Scotia) Mounted Rifles. Redesignated on 1 December 1925 as the King's Canadian Hussars. Amalgamated on 1 December 1936 with C Company of The Colchester and Hants Regiment and B Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC, and redesignated as the King's Canadian Hussars (Armoured Car).
The following day, the Hompesch Hussars with two squadrons, Hompesch Chasseurs with two Companies, and Irwin's York Hussars with two Squadrons arrived, along with 4 light guns. When the revolutionary French charged the Hessian positions, the Hompesch Chasseurs and Hussars held their post "magnificently", hanging on after the entirety of the ...