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The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its origins to the First or Cheltenham Troop of Gloucestershire Gentleman and Yeomanry raised in 1795, although a break in the lineage means that its formation is dated to the Marshfield and Dodington Troop raised in 1830. Six further troops – officered by nobility and gentry, and recruited largely from among landholders and tenant farmers – were subsequently raised in Gloucestershire, and in 1834 they came together to form the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1847, the regiment adopted a hussar uniform and the name Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. Originally intended to counter insurrection and a French invasion that never materialised, the yeomanry's first deployments were ceremonial and as mounted police during times of civil unrest. Three Gloucestershire troops were deployed to Bristol on two separate occasions in the 1830s in support of the civil authorities. (Full article...)
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November 12
- 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted). (Voivode)
- 1892 – William Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player. (Pudge Heffelfinger)
- 1911 – The Corozal (pictured), at the time the most powerful dredger ever built, was launched in Renfrew, Scotland, for service in the construction of the Panama Canal. (Corozal (dredger))
- 1912 – Eight months after perishing during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott (pictured) and his companions were discovered on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Terra Nova Expedition)
- 1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea. (Kingdom of Italy)
- 1928 – The British ocean liner SS Vestris sank in the western Atlantic Ocean, killing 111 people. (Ocean liner)
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50 Korun banknote of Czechoslovakia, issued in 1929 by the National Bank of Czechoslovakia
Credit: National Museum of American History
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