Ray,Churchill wrote:Pure fantasy!!!
Authors cough cough Z. Grbasic & V. Vuksic
Might as well be reading something from "Games Workshop" if your going to use this as a reliable source.
As for Danish cavalry in Ireland, I'm sure I've read somewhere that there were only four cuirassier regiments in the entire Danish Army of the time.
The three Danish regiments in Ireland were freshly raised from various other cavalry regiments, so I very much doubt these would be wearing the cuirass.
I'll give you that commanders would have worn the cuirass as a show of rank and affordability.
Not sure on the Lifeguards, the only picture I've seen of James Lifeguards is in Mike McNally's book where they are surrounding the Duke of Schomberg before striking him down.There is no sign of them wearing the cuirass.
As for the Scots dragoons, who never went to Ireland and fought in Scotland at Cromdale in Strathspey on the night of 1st May 1690 while under the command of Colonel Thomas Livingston against a Highland force of 1,200 men.
There is no way a dragoon regiment would be wearing a cuirass...as I said "Pure Fantasy".
Now comes the flak...
Ray.
No offence intended but are you allowed to quote copyrighted material without permission? The quote you've used is pulled right off one of the amazon reviews of this book and it is copyrighted as stated at the bottom of the quote. Wouldn't like to see Barry getting into to bother with Amazon etc for this being on the website
Cheers
Gerry
P.s. I've also taken the offending quote out of this too. Would be just the thing that I end up banned for it