直接抄一段Elting老先生的书
Sapeurs and mineurs were armed like infantry with musket (usually the lighter “dragoon” model) and bayonet; most contemporary sketches show them also carrying briquets. During sieges, those sapeurs working in the entrenchments closest to the enemy’s position would wear heavy cuirasses and pôts en tête (a helmet resembling the “lobster-tailed pot” worn by Cromwell’s Ironsides), both painted black. An emergency version of this equipment was devised in 1799 at a small fort on the French line of communication in Naples. Surrounded by hostile peasants, the French commander decided to spike twelve old cannon, too heavy to bring into the fort, that were lying just outside the fort’s ditch. Among odds and ends found in the fort when the French occupied it were twelve suits of medieval armor. Donning them, a French detail went out and spiked the guns under long-range musket fire. The scene had “something of the picturesque [and] of the diabolical, and seemed out of fairyland.” |
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