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with gold embroidery, gold sash and cartridge box, gold epaulettes ; blue 

 pantaloons, with gold stripes (red for privates) ; blue shabrack, trimmed 

 with gold, bear-skin saddle-cover, bound with red. Fig. 4, officer of 10th 

 light dragoon regiment. Dark blue pelisse, dolman, and pantaloons ; pelisse 

 and dolman very rich, with gold lace and cord ; pantaloons trimmed with 

 gold lace (woollen for privates) ; gold baldric (privates, white leather belts) ; 

 red sabretache, gold em.broidered, and with gold lace ; round bear-skin cap, 

 with red calpac, gold cord, and white heron plume ; red shabrack and 

 saddle-cover, trimmed with gold. Arms: sabre and pistols, the privates 

 carbines also. Fig. 8, officer of 1st hussar regiment. Bright blue pelisse 

 and dolman, with silver cords (white woollen for privates), and black fur 

 trimmings. Red pantaloons, with two gold stripes ; red shako, trimmed 

 with gold, and black horse-hair tuft. Black belts and sabretache, with gold 

 plate ; blue shabrack, with white binding, red notched ; bear-skin saddle- 

 cover, red cloak-bag ; head-stall white, holsters red. Fl. 22, fig. 9, officer 

 of 11th hussar regiment. Dark blue pelisse and dolman, with rich gold 

 cords, lace and black fur trimmings ; crimson pantaloons, with gold stripes ; 

 gold bandolier and baldric ; red sabretache, wnth gold cypher and binding ; 

 holsters with bear-skin cover ; head-stall and trappings red, richly worked 

 with gold ; round black bear-skin cap, with crimson calpac and white »• 

 heron plume. Fig. 6, officer of 1st lancers regiment. Arms : sabre and 

 pistols, and for the privates, lances with pennons, blue above, red below. 

 Uniform : red jacket, with black collar and cuffs, and white skirt facings, 

 the collar richly embroidered with gold, and the cuff with gold flaps. Yel- 

 low buttons, and gold bandolier and baldric ; blue shabrack, with gold 

 name-cypher and binding ; blue pantaloons with broad gold stripes (red for 

 privates) ; cap, black below, with gold sun, dark blue above, bound with 

 gold ; gold cap-cord and epaulettes (privates woollen) ; green drooping 

 feather plume ; dark blue shabrack, with gold name-cypher and trimming ; 

 tiger-skin saddle-cover, bound with gold lace; head-stall of light calf-skin. 

 Fig. 7, private of 9th lancers. Arms as above. Uniform : dark blue 

 jacket with crimson collar, cuffs, and skirt facings, and gold lace ; dark blue 

 pantaloons, with crimson stripes ; yellow girdle and buttons, yellow epau- 

 lettes, white belts, and cap-cord ; cap black below, with gold sun, red above, 

 with blue, white, and red drooping feather plume ; black sabretache ; blue sha- 

 brack, with gold trimmings, and saddle-cover of sheepskin ; head-stall black. 



The artillery consists of 9 battalions of foot artillery, each of 8 compa- 

 nies, and one brigade light artillery, of 7 companies ; to these the rocket 

 corps is to be added. The arms are : for the foot artillery, a short sabre, 

 for the light, sabre and pistols. Uniform : blue, with red collars and yellow 

 cords, black belts, and white shakos. 



The engineer corps consists of 11 colonels, 26 lieutenant colonels, 80 

 captains, and 106 lieutenants. To this belong also the royal staff corps 

 (pioneers and pontoniers) and the royal sappers and miners, altogether 11 

 companies. 



The Turkish Military System. The Turkish is probably the oldest of 

 all standing armies, for even in the year 1328, when the Ottoman Empire 

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