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Originally Posted by cbuehler
Great photo. As an American, I have always found those tent caps most Un-British looking. Almost Polish actually.
CB
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That’s because it’s not a British cap. The precise details of its origins are lost in history, but it’s known to have been a type of cap known as a Bonnet De Police that was popular undress headwear in Napoleon’s armies and worn for long afterward by the French and Belgian Armies. Denmark became allied with Napoleon’s France after the British attacked Copenhagen in 1801 and its army began to wear French influenced uniforms, including the Bonnet De Police. Much later a regiment of Irish Hussars in the British Army became associated with a member of the Danish Royal family through Queen Victoria and the Hussars adopted the Danish cap as a courtesy to their Royal sponsor.