Original Napoleonic Era Scandinavian Doglock Musket - Circa 1800 Japanese Flare Guns The Royal West Kent Regiment

The Royal West Kent Regiment was raised in 1881 with the Childers Reforms and combined the 50th Regiment of Foot as its 1st Battalion and the 97th Regiment of Foot as it's 2nd Battalion

This particular topee

It was superseded by cheaper

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and then went on as Commander in Chief to defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815

Original Napoleonic Era Scandinavian Doglock Musket - Circa 1800 Japanese Flare Guns The Royal West Kent RegimentOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a most interesting Scandinavian musket using the Doglock system essentially as a safety. Dating from the Napoleonic wars when Denmark and basically the rest of Scandinavia chose to fight against Britain on the side of Napoleon Bonaparte. Twice England sent fleets to Copenhagen, in 1791 and again in 1807, decimating the Danish fleet and its allies. The 1801 engagement was when Admiral Lord Nelson, then only