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Cavalier hats derived their name from supporters of Charles I of England during the English Civil War, known as Cavaliers, who were noted for wearing extravagant clothing. It was a common hat style throughout Europe during the 17th century, until it was later replaced in fashion by the tricorne, which was originally a cavalier hat with its brim ...
Commonplace throughout Europe, it first came into use early in the 16th century and had attained its classic form by c. 1550. [5] Accompanied by plate armour, burgonets were mostly worn by cavalry, such as demi-lancers and cuirassiers.
Most heavy cavalry from c. 1700 to c. 1785 wore the tricorne hat, which evolved into the bicorne, or cocked hat, towards the close of the century. In the first two decades of the 19th century, helmets, often of hardened leather with brass reinforcement (though the French used iron-skulled helmets for their cuirassiers), replaced the bicorne hat.
Tarleton Cap – A leather helmet with a large crest. Popular with cavalry and light infantry in the late 18th and early 19th century. Named after British military commander, Banastre Tarleton. Tricorn – Three-cornered hat synonymous with the 18th century.
late 18th century: France. Enclosed helmet: late 12th century: Western Europeans. Frog-mouth helm: c. 1600: Europeans. Great helm [3] 1189: Europeans Hounskull: 14th century: Europeans. Kabuto: c. 1600: Samurai especially during the 17th century of the Edo-period Tokugawa shogunate in Medieval Japan. Kettle hat: 12th century: Common all over ...
A 1550 Spanish cabasset, somewhat similar to the morion though it lacks the comb and has a taller crown, and is a different shape, Museo Naval de Madrid A similar helmet, the cabasset (Catalan: cabasset) (Spanish: capacete) was also worn during the 16th century and also originated in Spain, but it is unclear if it predated the morion or was an adaptation of it, with some sources saying it was ...
In the early 16th century light cavalry in the European armies was principally remodeled after Albanian stradioti of the Venetian army, Hungarian hussars and German mercenary cavalry units (Schwarzreiter). [55] They employed hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, feigned retreats and other complex maneuvers.
"Demi-lancer" was a term used in 16th-century military parlance, especially in England, to designate cavalrymen mounted on unarmoured horses, armed with a slightly lighter version of the heavy lance of a man-at-arms and wearing three-quarter or half-armour, in contrast to the full plate armour of the man-at-arms or gendarme, who rode barded mounts.