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Triarii
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Sgt Maj Cotton of the 7th Hussars mentioned at Waterloo wrt the Household Brigade charge into French currasiers that 'the swords clashing upon the casques and cuirasses so that as Lord Edward Somerset observed to me "You might have fancied that that it was so many tinkers at work."'
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