Exercise of the Horse 5: Return your pistol, Bond your cock, Guard your cock, Order your hammer.

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Exercise of the Horse 5: Return your pistol, Bond your cock, Guard your cock, Order your hammer. Mounted knight in full armor performing exercises with the pistol while walking. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's "Military Antiquities: Respecting a History of the English Army From the Conquest to the Present Time: A New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements" 1812. Francis Grose (1731-1791) was an army officer who served in the cavalry, infantry, and militia. A keen amateur military historian, he was able to move and observe among the rank and file of the army and to gain access to the curio cabinets of the gentry. He also wrote two dictionaries of slang and cant.

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