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Show Thought Umbrellas Unmilitary. Umbrellas and khaki seem a most unlikely combination; yet one instance in-stance is recorded of British soldiers taking their umbrellas into action, according ac-cording to the London Chronicle. On December 10, 1813, during the battle of the Nive, the Grenadier guards captured cap-tured , a redoubt outside Bayonne. While they were In' possession of this Wellington passed by and noticed that the officers had umbrellas up to protect pro-tect themselves from the heavy rain. He sent back his aide-de-camp, Lord Arthur Hill, to tell them that "the duke does not approve of the use of umbrellas in action. The guards' officers may, if they please, carry umbrellas um-brellas even in' uniform when on duty at St. James; but in the field it is nt only ridiculous, but unmilitary." |