Bicorne
Videos
The bicorne or bicorn is a hat widely adopted in the 1790s as a form of military headgear by European militaries. Bicornes saw widespread usage during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and
Early bicorne from France, c. 1790
Napoléon Bonaparte in his characteristic side-to-side bicorne hat (detail from an 1810 painting by Joseph Chabord)
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz wearing a fore-and-aft bicorne (photograph from World War I-era postcard)
British Army cocked hat with General officer's plume, worn by Lord Dannatt (Constable of the Tower)
Uniforms of the British Army
Videos
The uniforms of the British Army currently exist in twelve categories ranging from ceremonial uniforms to combat dress. Uniforms in the British Army are specific to the regiment to which a soldier bel
Bicorne
…Chancellor who, if present, wears his tricorne). At the annual Trooping the Colour in London, the Major-General commanding the Household Division wears full dress uniform (as does his chief of staff) consisting of a scarlet tunic and a cocked hat with swan-feather plume. Similar hats with distinctive upright…
Soldier's kit locker containing general-issue uniform (Army Air Corps).
Line infantry full dress (Duke of Wellington's Regiment): Regimental Drummers scarlet full dress tunic of pre–World War I pattern, Home Service helmet of 1878.
Troopers of the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery in their blue light cavalry-style full dress uniform
Lancers forming a guard of honour in full dress