. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. ed. The hussars wore suchbrilliant uniforms — green and scarlet, it is said —and such impressive military caps, Shakos theywere called, really wonderful, with standing cock-ades of black horsehair and hanging bands of goldgalloon! Then there were clanking sabres! Whata contrast to the appearance of the Connecticutmilitia, who often had no uniforms whatever or,at best, only a cocked hat ! The French officers were made comfortable inthe inn, where De Lauzun must have been surprisedas well as pleased to find a landlord
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. ed. The hussars wore suchbrilliant uniforms — green and scarlet, it is said —and such impressive military caps, Shakos theywere called, really wonderful, with standing cock-ades of black horsehair and hanging bands of goldgalloon! Then there were clanking sabres! Whata contrast to the appearance of the Connecticutmilitia, who often had no uniforms whatever or,at best, only a cocked hat ! The French officers were made comfortable inthe inn, where De Lauzun must have been surprisedas well as pleased to find a landlord of French de-scent to greet him, one who had, as was said of Ne-hemiah, * a natural ease and gentility of address andpoliteness of manner — matters which all French-men if not all Americans regard. The soldiers en-camped on a meadow a little to the southeast ofthe village green. There was not fodder enough inthe place to feed all the horses and the five-cattleteams that had dragged the heavy supply wagonsover the terrible corduroy roads — eight hundred [ 280 ] r ft. FRENCH HUSSAR, I 772 The Innkeeper and ten such wagons, we are told, most of them New Stratforddrawn by two yoke of oxen and a horse. Everyonewished to help all he could, and so a meadow near-bywas hastily mowed by moonlight to supply the de-ficiency. That evening there was great merriment in NewStratford, for a dance on the Green was Lauzuns military band furnished the music —and such music ! In these bands there were usuallya flute, six clarinets, three bassoons, two horns,one trumpet and one serpent besides a number ofside-drums. As the Continentals had only fifesand drums, no wonder that the music of the hussarscaused great excitement wherever they himself wrote about it as follows:Ce qui vous étonnera, cest de retrouver toujoursla gaîté française dans ces marches pénibles. LesAméricains, que la curiosité amené par milliersdans nos camps, y sont reçus avec alegress
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