The 1 st and 6 th Dragoon Guards wore a white metal helmet, while the Dragoon Guard Regiments wore a brass helmet version, with the exception of the 2 nd Dragoons, who wore a bearskin.

Britain’s forces captured and imprisoned 64,373 French sailors over the course of the Seven Years’ War. Some prisoners of war died from malnutrition or disease, but many were released later.

Although in some armies, notably the British Army, the metal helmet had been relegated to parades and ceremonial duties, the fact is that the nations of Germany, Russia, and France fielded cavalry ...

Second war in 10 years France and Spain were also trying to settle scores from a previous global conflict a decade earlier they had lost – the Seven Years’ War, of which the French and Indian ...

Sent between 1757-58 during the Seven Years War, the letters were mostly addressed to the crew of the Galatée warship, and the French postal administration forwarded them from port to port in ...