The Red Hussar is a comedy opera in three acts by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens, concerning a young ballad singer who disguises...
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A hussar was a member of a class of light cavalry, originally from the Kingdom of Hungary during the 15th and 16th centuries. The title and distinctive...
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The Polish hussars (/həˈzɑːrs/; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland...
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Vatman's Red Hussars Brigade. The Brigade, consisting of three regiments, wore the parade uniforms of both the 1st Sumskoy and 3rd Elisavetgradsky Hussar regiments...
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"The Faithful Hussar" (German: "Der treue Husar") is a German song based on a folk song known in various versions since the 19th century. In its current...
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adopted the red hussar cavalry uniforms used by the British Legions' Company of Honor Guard for Simón Bolívar. Prior to World War I, officers of the Prussian...
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Uniforms of La Grande Armée (section Hussars)
They wore blue piped red hussar-style breeches, black hussar boots and a black shako with red cords and plume. Troopers of the Horse Artillery could...
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (category Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross)
as a major in his old regiment, the Red Hussars. He took part in the expedition to the Netherlands in 1787, and the next year was promoted to lieutenant...
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Edward Solomon (category Deaths from typhoid fever in the United Kingdom)
1895 at the age of 39. Billee Taylor (1880) Quite an Adventure (1881) Claude Duval (1881) The Vicar of Bray (1882) The Red Hussar (1889) The Nautch Girl...
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The 9th Hussar Regiment (9e régiment de hussards) was a hussar regiment of the French Army. The 9th Hussar Regiment fought in the Napoleonic Wars, World...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hussar, after the hussar. The first HMS Hussar (1727) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and captured by the...
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Michael Hussar is an American painter from Southern California. He was trained at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Hussar was born 1964...
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The King's Royal Hussars (KRH) is a Royal Armoured Corps regiment of the British Army formed in 1992. Based at Tidworth it serves as the armoured regiment...
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in Dorothy and Corporal Bundy in The Red Hussar. In the last decade of the century, he appeared in The Shop Girl, The Circus Girl and A Message from Mars...
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Common patas monkey (redirect from Hussar monkey)
The common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the hussar monkey, is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa...
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The Guard Hussar Regiment Mounted Squadron (Danish: Gardehusarregimentets Hesteskadron, HESK), is part of the Guard Hussar Regiment. The purpose of the...
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Guards Hussar Regiment (until 1855 – the Hussar Life Guards Regiment) was a Guards Hussar regiment of the Army of the Russian Empire. At the end of 1774...
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Lyric Theatre, London (category Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster)
offering, The Red Hussar by Henry Pottinger Stephens and Edward Solomon, ran for 175 performances from November 1889, after which Leslie gave up the Lyric...
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Roșiori wore scarlet hussar uniforms, white pantaloons, and white belts; some sources describe the units as the "Red Hussars". By 1908, the Romanian army had...
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The 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of the 15th The King's Hussars...
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centuries, including the First World War before being amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922. The regiment was first...
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Vasily Agapkin (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner)
voluntarily joined the Red Army in 1918 and organized a brass band in the 1st Red Hussar Regiment. In 1920, Agapkin returned to Tambov, directing the music studio...
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The Hompesch Hussars (German: Hompesch Husarenregiment, French: Régiment des Hussards de Hompesch) was a German light cavalry regiment of the French Armée...
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HMS Hussar was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1894 and served in the Mediterranean between 1896 and 1905 before being...
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The 1st Hussars is an armoured Primary Reserve regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces, based in London and Sarnia, Ontario. Despite "1st" in the title...
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Marie Tempest (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
flagging show. The next year, in 1890, she created the role of Kitty Carol in The Red Hussar in London and then in New York. She then toured the United States...
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Guard. The battalion has also a mounted detachment, clad in historical green-red hussars uniforms. The official ceremonial honour guard of the Hungarian...
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The 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment (French: 1er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes, 1er RHP) is an airborne cavalry unit in the French Army, founded in...
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(1885). He worked again with Solomon on one of the first pieces considered a musical comedy, The Red Hussar (1889). He also wrote novels, plays and pantomimes...
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The Légion de Conflans later the Régiment de Saxe Hussards (English: Conflans Legion and English: Saxe Hussar Regiment) was a German-French legion formed...
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