"Crustacean Cavalry" Topic

"The Bavarian army during the War of the Spanish Succession initially included three cuirassier regiments (the Arco, Wieckel and La Tour regiments). This later increased to four with the raising of the Wolframsdorff Regiment. With their "lobster-tailed pot helmets" and metal cuirassies, these troops looked like something familiar from the previous century. During the English Civil War, the so-called Haselrig's Lobsters wore this armour, not too dissimilar from the Bavarian cuirassiers of 60 years later:…"

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Armand

I thought this was going to be about…

But those are mollusks, not crustaceans.

Where's Mr. Crab and Sponge Bob, his squire?

The work on the Bavarian cuirassiers is beautiful, but the link claiming similarity with Haselrig's lobsters is entirely spurious. Haselrig's regiment when originally formed, were Cuirassiers ie they wore full armour, front and back plates, armour for arms and legs, and often a completely enclosed helmet. The armour shown in the horseguards Museum was much more common in the ECW, and belonged to the vast majority of the horse, who were generally called ‘harquebusiers'. The so called ‘lobster tailed' helmet had nothing to do with Haselrig's regiment, but merely referred to similarity of its rear piece to the segmented nature of a lobster.

Ha!Ha!….

Thanks Mollinary….

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Armand