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Bit burr. Resembling a bit guard is a bit burr (sometimes burr bit, also bubble cheeker in Australia), which has teeth laid against the horse's cheek. The burr bit was for a time widely used on coach horses in New York City, until the use was stopped in part through the efforts of Henry Bergh circa 1879. [1]
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, is a ceremonial unit of the British Army, quartered at Woolwich.It is a mounted unit and all of its soldiers are trained to care for and drive teams of six horses, each team pulling a First World War-era QF 13-pounder gun; six teams are used in the unit's Musical Drive.
Chivalry and Command: 500 Years of Horse Guards. General Military Books. Hills, Richard J T (1970). A Short History of The Royal Horse Guards. Leo Cooper. Hills, Reginald John Taylor (1970). Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0850520274. Houlding, J A (1981). Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army 1713–1795.
Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, in Guard horse artillery officer's uniform. The Regime of the Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard was created by imperial decree on 15 April 1806. It was organized into three squadrons, two of veterans and one of velites, each divided into two companies of 60 men, for a theoretical total of 360 artillerymen.
A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece, in the Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm.. Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing field artillery that consisted of light cannons or howitzers attached to light but sturdy two-wheeled carriages called caissons or limbers, with the individual crewmen riding on horses.
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Nils Olav inspects troops of the Norwegian King's Guard, of which he is colonel-in-chief. A military mascot, also known as a ceremonial pet or regimental mascot, is a pet animal maintained by a military unit as a mascot for ceremonial purposes and/or as an emblem of that unit.
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