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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
While I dont know the series, I can see by the cartoons it explored the entire spectrum of history, and what a great way to expose youngsters to it!
If only our schooling of today taught history with any degree of dimension to kids, but thankfully these kinds of media venues provide the prompts to bring interest.
What an amazing and personal story of this cavalry sword! and all the better as it belonged to your great uncle, which brought you into the history it had seen with him. To have the actual weapon(s) of family members who have literally been involved in history themselves is pure treasure!!!
I'd love to see pics of the sword and him!
It is amazing at what a comprehensive interest this brought to you, and the knowledge on swords in general you gained and share here constantly.
Thank you for that and for sharing this.  |
Here is a photo of my great uncle and his cavalry sword. In the photo he is standing in front of Karlberg castle Military Academy in Stockholm where he received his officer training. He was an officer of Kungliga Norrlands Dragoner (K4) based in Umeå. Karlberg military academy est.1792 is allegedly the world’s oldest continuously operating from the original location military academy. The sword (a pallasch) was hung in a frog attached to the saddle.