This one is a bit weird....
It was in a dream, but only a flash, from which I intellectually absorbed sooo much information.
Here is the dream:
I find myself standing in a canvas tent, a big one. It feels warm, not uncomfortably warm, but a "tent warm" (like waking up in the morning in a tent), with a specific smell I still can't identify...grass, mixed with wet wool, mixed with fertilized mud, mixed with a skunkish, stale odor.
Anyways, I'm standing with my back to the entrance of the tent, facing at least three men (one at least behind a table of sorts) with two of them putting a jacket on me, telling me that it should fit well. But as I look down to my arm (singular!) being led through the sleve of the jacket, I notice that I'm already wearing clothing...a sky blue coat of sorts with white or yellow lacing running across my chest (if it was yellow, it was very faded). I remember the WEIGHT (not saying it was heavy, I just remember its weight...specifically) of this new coat they put on me, also with a pale sky blue with white or yellow lacing across the chest. As I was glancing down I also noticed my pants were of the same colour.
It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.
As I slipped it on the dream ended...
Needless to say when I woke up I was curious and, after a few hours of looking though french uniforms I found something that PERFECTLY matched:
http://www.napoleon-series.org/imag...ance/Cavalry/Hussars/TimReese/1sthussarsa.JPG
I just want to express how specific this is.....
The armies of Napoleon had hundreds, if not thousands, of uniform differences. Be it infantry of the line, the guard, his calvary, artillery, supply lines, etc. Each had their own divisions, which had their own companies, which had their own regiments, all of which had their own SPECIFIC uniform. This one matched what I saw myself wearing in my dream flawlessly
It was in a dream, but only a flash, from which I intellectually absorbed sooo much information.
Here is the dream:
I find myself standing in a canvas tent, a big one. It feels warm, not uncomfortably warm, but a "tent warm" (like waking up in the morning in a tent), with a specific smell I still can't identify...grass, mixed with wet wool, mixed with fertilized mud, mixed with a skunkish, stale odor.
Anyways, I'm standing with my back to the entrance of the tent, facing at least three men (one at least behind a table of sorts) with two of them putting a jacket on me, telling me that it should fit well. But as I look down to my arm (singular!) being led through the sleve of the jacket, I notice that I'm already wearing clothing...a sky blue coat of sorts with white or yellow lacing running across my chest (if it was yellow, it was very faded). I remember the WEIGHT (not saying it was heavy, I just remember its weight...specifically) of this new coat they put on me, also with a pale sky blue with white or yellow lacing across the chest. As I was glancing down I also noticed my pants were of the same colour.
It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.
As I slipped it on the dream ended...
Needless to say when I woke up I was curious and, after a few hours of looking though french uniforms I found something that PERFECTLY matched:
http://www.napoleon-series.org/imag...ance/Cavalry/Hussars/TimReese/1sthussarsa.JPG
I just want to express how specific this is.....
The armies of Napoleon had hundreds, if not thousands, of uniform differences. Be it infantry of the line, the guard, his calvary, artillery, supply lines, etc. Each had their own divisions, which had their own companies, which had their own regiments, all of which had their own SPECIFIC uniform. This one matched what I saw myself wearing in my dream flawlessly
