by Sr. J. Balaguer
FIG. 1. Officer, black bicorne with gold lace tassels, tunic red, collar, cuffs and turnbacks dark blue, silver lace on cuffs, chest, collar design and piping, buttons silver, eppoulets silver. Waistcoat red with silver lace, breeches white with silver lace knot, black boots, pouchbelt white with gilt shield and bos, chain to pickers silver, white waistbelt, gilt hilt and gold sword knot, black scabbard with gilt fittings. FIG. 2. Trooper, shako black, red bag piped in gold, with gold tassel, plume ; red on top, white in centre, and red at the base, cockade quartered the top and bottom red while the two sides are white, brass button with gold lace holding strap, brass chin-scales and edging to black peak. Tunic red, collar, cuffs and turnbacks dark blue, collar piped in gold lace with white design, gold lace on chest and cuffs, white eppoulets, carbine belt, waistbelt and sword slings white. Breeches white with gold stripe and knot, brass sword hilt, steel scabbard, white sword knot. Sources: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE LIMA.
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