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To: beaversmom

Because they are wearing the bearskins hats taken from the French at Waterloo.


12 posted on 06/18/2015 10:04:48 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Reminds me, I forgot to post an IMGUR thread here about the Grenadier Guards!


13 posted on 06/18/2015 10:06:08 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

“Because they are wearing the bearskins hats taken from the French at Waterloo.”

British Grenadiers wore tall bearskin caps long before Waterloo.


35 posted on 06/19/2015 4:48:24 AM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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