Original British East India Company 12th Irregular Cavalry Percussion Saddle Ring Carbine with Nickel Mounts Multi Nation Flags With the inscriptions Preussens Tapferen

With the inscriptions Preussens Tapferen Kriegern (To Prussia's Brave Warriors")

In 1917 the regiment was called into federal service and redesignated the 107th Infantry Regiment

an elephant bearing a cannon to the fore

We continue to hold Bastogne

is closer to a heavy ribbon than anything else and was reportedly a common used style by Confederate soldiers using captured Union canteens

Original British East India Company 12th Irregular Cavalry Percussion Saddle Ring Carbine with Nickel Mounts Multi Nation Flags With the inscriptions Preussens TapferenOriginal Item: Only One Available. Featured on page 507 of David Harding's wonderful work SMALLARMS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, VOLUME 2, this model was ordered by the Commanding Officer, Captain W. C. Alexander in 1851 for the Irregular Bengal Cavalry. They were supplied by the London Gun maker GARDEN, 200, PICCADILLY, LONDON, which appears on the twist steel barrel, though the marking is VERY faint. The lock is still clearly marked with 12th BENGAL