A man looking with annoyance at a hussar dressed in an expensive military uniform. Coloured etching.

A defeated hussar on the battlefield, whose horse has been killed while pulling a gun mounted on a chassis; a woman sympathizes. Mezzotint by V. Green after G. Carter, 1776.

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Hussars

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A man looking with annoyance at a hussar dressed in an expensive military uniform. Coloured etching.

A defeated hussar on the battlefield, whose horse has been killed while pulling a gun mounted on a chassis; a woman sympathizes. Mezzotint by V. Green after G. Carter, 1776.