Red Cavalry is an oil on canvas painting of 1932 by the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich. It depicts Red Cavalry horsemen racing across a plain...
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The Thin Red Line is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by Robert Gibb depicting the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Balaclava...
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line two deep—the "thin red line", though convention prescribed a line four deep, to meet the cavalry charge. As the Russian cavalry approached, the Turks...
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Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who fight mounted...
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The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo...
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Orange (colour) (redirect from Yellow-red)
numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB colour wheel. Regarding painting, blue is the complementary colour to orange...
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The Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force) is an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army which was raised in 1846 as The Corps of Guides. During more than a hundred...
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the Commanding officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment, to request some horses to be life models for paintings he planned to create. The two men became...
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The Polish cavalry (Polish: jazda, kawaleria, konnica) can trace its origins back to the days of medieval cavalry knights. Poland is mostly a country of...
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the Red Hussars are the most well known unit to wear such uniforms, they were not the only one. The 10th Kuban Cavalry Division's 55th 'Narva' Cavalry Regiment...
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Hussar (redirect from Gusar light cavalry)
husar, Serbian - husar / хусар [xûsaːr]) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe (Hungary) during the 15th and 16th centuries...
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The Battle of San Romano (redirect from The Battle of San Romano (painting))
hours. In the London painting, Niccolò da Tolentino, with his large gold and red patterned hat, is seen leading the Florentine cavalry. He had a reputation...
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Flag of Iran (category Flags with green, red and white)
painting dated c. 320 BCE, also shows the royal Persian standard., depicted as a rectangular plaque, possibly originally in purple, with a dark red border...
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Horse Guards (building) (redirect from Household Cavalry Museum)
on the site of a cavalry stables which had been built on the tiltyard of the Palace of Whitehall during the Commonwealth. Built of red brick and costing...
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important part of Hohloma painting Russian red boots are worn by men during Russian dances The original meaning of the Red Square was Beautiful Square...
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Reinhold Jacobi's painting of the new Parliament Buildings in 1866, a Red Ensign flies from the tower of the East Block. In 2007, the Canadian Red Ensign was...
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Battle of Grunwald (Matejko) (redirect from Bitwa pod Grunwaldem (painting))
interpretation that Matejko took with his painting; furthermore, modern scholarship indicates that he died in a cavalry duel, and not at the hands of a peasant...
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The Battle of Alexander at Issus (category 1529 paintings)
painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), a pioneer of landscape art and a founding member of the Danube school. The painting portrays...
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Polish hussars (category Polish cavalry)
husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from...
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Battle of Waterloo (category Cavalry charges)
and 1,500 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. On the left was II Corps under Reille with 13,000 infantry, and 1,300 cavalry, and a cavalry reserve...
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Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (redirect from Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (painting))
a resident of Alabama, he fought with the Union Army as a captain of a cavalry company during the American Civil War. The family "had a flair for social...
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of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. It took place on June 25–26, 1876,...
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Cennini, in his 15th-century manual on painting, wrote, "If you want to make a lovely violet colour, take fine lac (red lake), ultramarine blue (the same amount...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (category Western (genre) cavalry films)
by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget...
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acinaces). Greek vase painting begins to show makhairai very infrequently from c. 530 BC, though their depiction is increasingly common on 'red figure' ceramics...
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An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 (category British paintings)
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 is an oil painting painted by Swiss-born artist David Morier sometime between 1746 and 1765. It is currently part...
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hatband was sometimes a contrasting color to the normal blue: yellow for cavalry, red for artillery, or green for medics and soldiers belonging to the Irish...
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Flag of Elba (category Red and white flags)
Major Jan Paweł Jerzmanowski, into a single Cavalry Squadron. The squadron assumed the name of Polish Cavalry (Chevau-légers) - Napoleon Squadron - Guard...
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Chinese painting (simplified Chinese: 中国画; traditional Chinese: 中國畫; pinyin: Zhōngguó huà) is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world...
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American historian S. C. Gwynne called the Comanche "the greatest light cavalry on the earth" in the 19th century whose raids in Texas terrified the American...
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