Tuesday, May 12, 2009

ornaments

"The Duchy of Württemberg was a further example of an army which was not large enough to defend the state. Duke Eberhard Ludwig was entitled to retain 2,000 soldiers after the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697, whom he dressed in pretty yellow uniforms."

-- John Childs, The Army and the State in Britain and Germany during the Eighteenth Century, here.

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