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Veles @ keyofgeo · 10h
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted
entirely of twinks who used
UwU-speak
The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at
the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These
aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers,"
"tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a
great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w,"
saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sen-
tences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw."
Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by
corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired,
and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their
passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence
in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-
plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that
to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the in-
fantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home.