Horses and wagons - Pieter de Neyn

 Salvete Omnes,

today a quick posting from the first half of the XVII century Holland.

we can study some paintings by Pieter de Neyn (1597-1639) in search of horses and wagons - 
first some military topic - cavalry and their horses, there are wagons in the background

more soldiers in this war painting - a siege

.Palfrey and  two working or draft horses 

.from the Art Institute of Chicago - travelers 

.Christies

and 
a painting with a wagon carriage and some mounted travelers?

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Gabriel Raspe and his Polish-Lithuanian Cavalry circa 1775

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a little bit about our Polish cavalry circa 1775. 

in 1781 Gabriel N. Raspe (1712-1785) of Nuremberg published a book devoted to the Polish Royal Army, its organisation and uniforms -
Accurate Vorstellung der Königlich Pohlnischen Armee nach der auf dem in Jahre 1775 [..].

Polish army was reformed by the royal military commission in 1775 and these uniforms etc were in use until the next reform of 1785.

As of the final reform 1775-76 our Polish-Lithuanian Cavalry consisted of :

Crown Horse Guard dragoon Regiment - regiment gwardii konnej koronnej aka dragoni mirowscy - one of the most famous and experienced Polish cavalry units of the XVIII century. 

Ducal Guard Dragoon Regiment - regiment gwardii konnej litewskiej

National Cavalry Brigades or line cavalry - Kawaleria Narodowa - for the Crown and Duchy(Lithuanian) armies
Lithuanian or Ducal army had one Cavalry Brigade named 1st Hussar, referring to the abolished winged hussar banners.

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6 Dragoon line cavalry of the Crown regiments  - dragonskie regimenty koronne - 

Regiments of  Ulan-lancers or Advance Guard Reguments -  pulki ulanow koronne i litewskie

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Royal Uhlan Regiment - Pulk Ulanow Nadworny

The original digitized publication - the plates and description - is   available from Wroclaw University Library - FBC .

Polish cavalry  officer, researcher & artist Stanislaw Geper (1889-1965) created a copy of the 1781 Raspe's publication - available here.

Wiki Commons has the entire Gepner's version available for viewing and download.

I love these Polish army uniforms created after 1775 throughout 1791 , and I think they were the most wonderful emanation of our national costume. here in the military context. 

ps
Finally there is this article by Maciej Trabski on the National Cavalry of this period, and also the same researcher wrote this book on the uhlan and lancer regiments of the Crown Army 1768-94 - 'Pulki  Przedniej Strazy Koronnej ' from Inforteditions in Poland (all in Polish).

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Afghanistan War 1838-41 by doctor Atkinson

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James Atkinson (1780-1852) was a men of many talents and skills, his profession was medicine and he worked as a doctor in Bengal (part of British India) - being fluent in Persian he translated parts of Shahname into English, while being a man of his era, he was also trained in fine arts.

During the First Anglo-Afghan war he was appointed the chief surgeon to the Army of India (Indus) and thus he participated in the war until 1840,   riding into Afghanistan.

Upon his return to India in 1841, he published his drawings from Afghanistan titled "Sketches in Afghaunistan' and a volume describing the war in Afghanistan  titled 'The Expedition into Affghanistan: Notes and Sketches Descriptive of the Country[..].'
He was one of the European pioneer researchers into the culture of Afghanistan and Persia.

William Hay Macnachten receives Dost Mohammad's surrender

a colored lithograph from Christies - 

During the final fighting with Dost Muhammad  the Bengal Cavalry's 2nd Regiment refused to charge Afghans and flew from their British officers .. the action was described by dr Atkinson.

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