A European bladed dha

[Iain]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Iain, beautifully written and thoroughly researched detail! Thank you for sharing that. These kinds of items are fascinating for the history they hold, and when someone takes the time and effort to compile and preserve it , we are grateful as it becomes iconic for future generations.

As usual you are far too kind Jim, just a little digging through sources that are fairly easy to access in these days of most old books and journals being online and searchable.

Just to add a little more colour to this thread here's an image 18th century infantryman of the 1st Bengal European Regiment (circa 1756). This being of course an East India raised regiment before transfer to the British army. Exactly the sort of chap who was totting around one of these hangers not that far from the Burmese border...