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The man put his hand to his shako, and addressed me in German; -- he was one of the squadron of Hulans whom I had commanded in the Prussian retreat, and who had rejoined his regiment after the skirmish with the French dragoons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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We had a very narrow escape in coming home -- the Hulans were at the village of ____, an hour after we passed through it, and treated the poor inhabitants, as they usually do, with great inhumanity.
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Hulans were galloping through the Grande Rue; but we got no smiles.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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The Hulans tossed their lances; and it had nearly been a business of cold steel, when their officer rode up, to demand the sword of the presumptuous mutineer who had thus daringly questioned his right to starve us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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We had a very narrow escape in coming home -- the Hulans were at the village of ____, an hour after we passed through it, and treated the poor inhabitants, as they usually do, with great inhumanity.
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Lafayette surrounded by a troop of Hulans of the Guard.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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O ye hapless dulled-bright Seigneurs, and hydrophobic splashed Nankeens; -- but O, ten times more, ye poor sackerment-ing ghastly-visaged Hessians and Hulans, fallen on your backs; who had no call to die there, except compulsion and three-halfpence a-day!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Finally he settled at Offenbach and supported by liberal subsidies from the other Jews, he resumed his former splendour [480] with a retinue of several hundred beautiful Jewish youth of both sexes; carts containing treasure were reported to be perpetually brought in to him, chiefly from Poland -- he went out daily in great state to perform his devotions in the open field -- he rode in a chariot drawn by noble horses; ten or twelve Hulans in red or green uniform, glittering with gold, by his side, with pikes in their hands and crests on their caps, eagles, or stags, or the sun and moon ....
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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We had a very narrow escape in coming home ” the Hulans were at the village of _, an hour after we passed through it, and treated the poor inhabitants, as they usually do, with great inhumanity. ”
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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Dec. Britifh Hulans Salm's Huflars Humpefch's Huflars Rohan's Huflars ChoiflTeul's Huflars York Huflars Odtober Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Rangers *
A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1795
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