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Young Machetes is the fifth and final studio album by the American post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers, which was released October 10, 2006. Lyrically, the album "remains firmly rooted in the surreal consciousness, rage and oblique politics the Blood Brothers have always embraced. It also reveals a new, once-bitten wisdom."
On the left, a Division General in a tail-coat and distinctive gold and scarlet sash is pointing, while addressing a cuirassier officer, probably the Colonel of the 12th Regiment. Behind them stands a trumpeter in yellow, an aide-de-camp to the Division General in a hussar -style uniform, and two more cuirassiers.
The armour of a cuirassier was very expensive; in England, in 1629, a cuirassier's equipment cost four pounds and 10 shillings (equivalent to £1,084.487 in 2024) [6], whilst a harquebusier's (a lighter type of cavalry) was a mere one pound and six shillings [7] (equivalent to £313.296 in 2024). [6]
A typical 18th–century cuirassier wearing a cuirass.He might wear an iron skull cap under his tricorne.. Armour in the 18th century was minimalist and restricted almost entirely to cavalry, primarily to cuirassiers and, to a lesser degree, carabiniers and dragoons.
The 13 Cuirassier regiments of Old Prussia (Kavallerieregimenter der altpreußischen Armee) were formed in the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries, and formed the basis of Frederick the Great's vaunted cavalry. The cavalry regiments were the largest organization units of the old Prussian mounted troops.
Blood and Iron (German: Blut und Eisen) is the name given to a speech made by Otto von Bismarck given on 30 September 1862, at the time when he was Minister President of Prussia, about the unification of the German territories. It is also a transposed phrase that Bismarck uttered near the end of the speech that has become one of his most widely ...
The Iron Claw, written and directed by Sean Durkin, hits theaters on Dec. 22. What Kevin Von Erich Says Now ET spoke with Kevin at the Los Angeles premiere of The Iron Claw just days before the ...
Cent-garde in full uniform. Prévost was enlisted as a conscript for a 6-year military service on 11 April 1855, replacing his older brother. Being of large stature and burly, he was incorporated into the 4th Cuirassiers regiment before moving on 14 October 1856 to the 2nd Cuirassier Regiment of the Imperial Guard and the 12th Cuirassier Regiment, with whom he participated in the Italian ...