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by Stenbock
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:22 pm
Forum: SKANE WARS/GREAT NORTHERN WAR
Topic: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry
Replies: 23
Views: 24067

Re: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry

tacitus wrote: As far as I know the Danes did not give a reason why they thought it was a dragoon regiment. The book where I got my info is "Skaraborgs knektar och Västgöta ryttare", roughly; "Skaraborg's footsoldiers and Västgöta riders" by Bengt P. Gustafsson. On pages 165-166 it says (from swedi...
by Stenbock
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:20 pm
Forum: SKANE WARS/GREAT NORTHERN WAR
Topic: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry
Replies: 23
Views: 24067

Re: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry

tacitus wrote: As far as I know the Danes did not give a reason why they thought it was a dragoon regiment. The book where I got my info is "Skaraborgs knektar och Västgöta ryttare", roughly; "Skaraborg's footsoldiers and Västgöta riders" by Bengt P. Gustafsson. On pages 165-166 it says (from swedis...
by Stenbock
Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:02 pm
Forum: SKANE WARS/GREAT NORTHERN WAR
Topic: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry
Replies: 23
Views: 24067

Re: The Cuirass and Swedish Cavalry

Perhaps this might help to answer the question: At the battle of Helsingborg 28th of february 1710 the commander of Västgöta 3-männingregiment relates that the danes mistook his unit for dragoons, since they wore no cuirasses. Maybe the "original" (i.e. indelta) cavalryregiments, all had cuirasses a...