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PRESERVING OUR HISTORY,AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR FRENCH OFFICER HUSSAR SWORD CA 1780ORIGINALLY FROM AN ESTATE IN VIRGINIA, FROM THE MUSUM LIKE COLLECTION OF LONG TIME COLLECTOR JAN ZAJAC, A CONTRIBUTOR TO ALL OF AUTHOR RICHARD BEZDEK PUBLISHED SWORD BOOKS. MEASURES 40 INCHES OVERALL WITH A 34 1/2 INCH BLADE.Origins of the French HussarsThe hussar tradition came from Hungary and Poland. Light cavalry from the Hungarian frontier had developed a style of warfare based on speed, surprise and aggression. Their distinctive dress travelled west with them, and by the eighteenth century most European armies wanted hussars of their own.
France first raised hussar regiments during the reign of Louis XV. Many of the earliest recruits were foreigners, especially Hungarians, Germans and men from eastern Europe who already understood hussar tactics.
By the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the French army fielded thirteen hussar regiments. They became famous across Europe for their daring, their appearance and, occasionally, their alarming lack of restraint.
General Antoine Charles de Lasalle, perhaps the most famous hussar officer of them all, summed up the reputation perfectly:Any hussar who is not dead by thirty is a blackguard.”
Lasalle himself died at thirty-four, which suggests even he occasionally ignored his own advice.
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