 | English periodicals - 1833 - 598 pages
...into their standing armies, such dress being invariably calculated to cost as little and to look аз fine as possible ; leaving all consideration as to...military costume : in France and Germany the very postillions ended by wearing uniform. Charles XII. and Frederick II., who both exercised such influence... | |
 | Military art and science - 1833 - 598 pages
...as little and to look a» fine as possible ; leaving all consideration as to the health, coinfort, and convenience "of the soldiers entirely out of the...military costume : in France and Germany the very postillions ended by wearing uniform. Charles XII. and Frederick II., who both exercised such influence... | |
 | Hampton Court - 1844 - 978 pages
...comfort, and convenience of the soldiers entirely out of the question. Frederick William of Prussia, father of Frederick the Great, led the way in this...ambition ; and was so particular about dress, that he certainly would have put himself undes arrest, had he discovered that his own dre«s derated in the... | |
 | Military art and science - 1833 - 632 pages
...Callot's Soldadoes, but common sense is not yet offended by the miserable fooleries that followed. fort, and convenience of the soldiers entirely out of the...certainly have placed himself in arrest had he discovered tiiat his own uniform deviated in the slightest degree from the established regulation. Following the... | |
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... of the soldiers entirely out of the question. Military costume thus became a matter of first-rate importance, and formed an interesting subject of conversation ; its most trifling details rose into consequence, and were watched over with vigilant... 