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A little Christmas robin, perched and posing.
Merry Christmas!
At The Pixies
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
“I have had to fight almost every night
Down throughout the centuries.
That is when I say, oh yes, yet again,
Can you stop the cavalry?”
Jona Lewie
These are members of the Household Cavalry. Their regiment is based nearby. Usually the horses are exercised on a track in Hyde Park but today they are trotting down the middle of Kensington High Street.....
I would be inclined to describe the pace as a trot but by definition they were doing a gallop as the first horse has all four hoofs in the air!.....
You have a good day out there.
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Thanks for visiting.....
HMBT
High ISO and large aperture plus taken through a pane of glass. I wish the photo was a little more focused but I did like the little cavalry figures.
photographed in late sun.
What is a Drum horse? Read the following if interested
The American Drum Horse is a modern American breed of heavy horse of draft type. It is based on, and named for, the drum horse of the Life Guards of the British Royal Household Cavalry, which carries the kettle-drummer and large silver kettle-drums, and is usually a Clydesdale or Shire, and often either piebald or skewbald.[1]:43 Other regiments have drum-horses of other colors and breeds.
The American Drum Horse may be of any color, with a preference for pinto patterns.[2]:434 It is usually derives mainly from cross-breeding of Clydesdale, Gypsy Cob and Shire stock.[2]:434 It may be registered with the International Drum Horse Association or the Gypsy Cob and Drum Horse Association.[3][4]
Wikipedia
This photo was taken outside the visitors center at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA.
view of the western part (from the garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
One of several taking part in a World War One Cavalry Re-enactment Battle at a event in Hulls East Park.
"At that moment there came a roaring and a rushing: a noise of loud waters rolling many stones. Dimly Frodo saw the river below him rise, and down along its course there came a plumed cavalry of waves. White flames seemed to Frodo to flicker on their crests and he half fancied that he saw amid the water white riders upon white horses with frothing manes."
While this is a typical Chihuahuan Desert scene featuring sparse vegetation with seemingly little opportunity for human use, the Rio Grande is less than a mile behind me, and the landscape there is lush in comparison. Lush enough to attract farmers who could grow food and cotton crops in the late 1800s. When a nearby community was raided in 1916 during the Mexican Revolution, the War Department sent thousands of soldiers to protect the border residents. Three regiments of the US Cavalry were stationed here at a spot named Camp Santa Helena. They built a few adobe structures but abandoned the site when the Revolution ended in 1920.
People continued to live here and a store that served people on both sides of the river remained in operation until it was destroyed by fire in 2019. The community's name was changed to Castolon when the residents tried to establish a post office and learned they had to select a different name as there was already a Santa Helena in Texas. I couldn't find any date or usage information for the building, but suspect it was built after the Army's departure. The mountain is Cerro Castellan, which was seen from the other side in this album's previous photo.
Castolon Historic District, Big Bend National Park, Texas.
A ceremonial mounted unit, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment is the Queen's official bodyguard. Garrisoned at Hyde Park Barracks (Knightsbridge Barracks) in London and seen here performing ceremonial duties leaving for Buckingham Palace.
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Old Cavalry Barracks on
eastside of the original Ft Sill
settlement. (Oklahoma)
On the Kaliphlini high tablelands, these noble cavalry have a reputation for battle matched only by that of their magnificent moustaches.
Another small vignette using one of my Guilds of Historica CMF figures.
Keep fighting...
One more breath..
One more stand.
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We must fulfill our obligation to the king! No falling back! Fight! You have lived your whole life for this singular moment!
My entry in Round 3 of the 2018 Bio-Cup, for the theme Anachronistic Future. Although far in the future, these robots embrace the chivalrous tradition of the past - if you've played Nier:Automata you might understand my inspiration for this one quite well. This is the biggest thing I've made and for something made in little more than 3 days after BrickFair Virginia I'm rather pleased with how it went, especially getting the legs to hold the rearing pose. Comments and criticism much enjoyed as always, enjoy!
The real strength of Loreos lies in it's cavalry. While the other lesser nations have barely begun to ride the horse to war, the desert warriors have mastered it's use for centuries. Often the deciding force in every battle, these armored riders make mincemeat of any who dare face them.
For the Glory of Loreos! ;)
I've had all these army guys built for like two months now, finally getting around to posting em. ;)
And you Lenfels had better come up with some more creative ideas than just mice! :p ;D