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About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
V is for Vivandiere - Historex No's 761, 762, 763 and 744
I think the closest translation is 'provisioner'
or 'provender'. and it doesn't seem that the British army had quite the same
role, there were hanger's on, women and children with some connection to the
soldiery helping out at camp, and following the army, but not the semi-formal,
vaguely uniformed women who served the French army, a concept which was passed
to the American army during the War of Independence.
There's also some 'camp' stuff in there,
but we can tell from the catalogue codes they are all expected or intended to
be used together. And obviously, this cart was not within the Gribeauval System,
and while of a common cart design, probably differed between Vivadieres?
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