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HUSSAR , originally the name of a soldier belonging to a See also:corps of See also:light See also:horse raised by See also:Matthias See also:Corvinus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary, in 1458, to fight against the See also:Turks. The Magyar hussar, from which the word is derived, was formerly connected with the Magyar husz, twenty, and was explained by a supposed raising of the troops by the taking of each twentieth See also:man. According to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary the word is an See also:adaptation of the See also:Italian corsaro, See also:corsair, a robber, and is found in 15th-See also:century documents coupled with praedones. The hussar was the typical Hungarian See also:cavalry soldier, and, in the See also:absence of See also:good light cavalry in the See also:regular armies of central and western See also:Europe, the name and See also:character of the hussars gradually spread into See also:Prussia, See also:France, &c. See also:Frederick the See also:Great sent See also:Major II. J. von See also:Zieten to study the See also:work of this type of cavalry in the See also:Austrian service, and Zieten so far improved on the Austrian See also:model that he defeated his old teacher, See also:General Baranyai, in an encounter between the Prussian and Austrian hussars at Rothschloss in 1741. The typical See also:uniform of the Hungarian hussar was followed with modifications in other See also:European armies. It consisted of a See also:busby or a high cylindrical See also:cloth cap, jacket with heavy braiding, and a See also:dolman or See also:pelisse, a loose coat worn See also:hanging from the See also:left See also:shoulder. The hussar regiments of the See also:British See also:army were converted from light dragoons at the following See also:dates:7th (18o5), loth and 15th (18o6), 18th (1807, and again on revival after disbandment, 1$58), 8th (1822), 11th (1840), loth (See also:late 2nd See also:Bengal European Cavalry) (186o), 13th, 14th, and 19th (late 1st Bengal European Cavalry) (1861). The 21st Lancers were hussars from 1862 to 1897.
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