Good information about this 100-strong ceremonial unit raised by
Potemkin in march 1787 from wives and daughters of soldiers of the
Balaklava Greek Settled Battalion to escort the Empress during her tour
of Crimea with Joseph II on the *excellent* Oderint Dum Probent blog dedicated to Russian military history in the 17th & 18th C., and full of rare information.
Imaginary: Les Carabinières de la Reine
(Btw I also posted on the Alternate History Forum some musings about the possible uniforms of an imaginary Teutonic Order surviving in the 18th C. as a nominally independent military border district Banat).
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The perfect woman!
If the girls are intended to be cavalry (as 'Amazons' suggests) or dragoons in the same way as French Mousquetaires du Roi they would be greatly disadvantaged if having to fight riding side-saddle. They would be able and comfortable to ride astride 'man fashion' -but still feminine and 'decent'- wearing a fustanella over breeches like Albanian and Greek males of the time (images also suggesting appropriate secondary weapons).
LACEPULP LADIES?
Californian artist Deborah Oropallo's re-interpretation of 18th C. paintings of military and civilian nature.
Possibly inspirational for miniature sculptors wishing e.g. to represent in 1/60 Geneviève Sylvie de l'Isle Dieudonné in the mid-18th C., when the predecessor of the Diogenes Club was collaborating with the Lemuel Gulliver Fellowship?
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