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Boots and Saddles (bugle call)

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"Boots and Saddles" is a bugle call sounded for mounted troops to mount and take their place in line. In the British Army it is used as a parade call. Its name drives from the French phrase boute-selle, "put on saddle".

The call has been used by the United States Army during the American Civil War as well as World War II. While the call was originally meant to apply exclusively to cavalry, it was used later as an inspiring call for other military units as well.

The tune was recorded in 1919 for the Victor Talking Machine Company's "Bugle Calls of the U.S. Army: Part 1".

In literature

"Boots and Saddles" is blown several times in Mark Twain's 1907 novel A Horse's Tale.

Elizabeth Bacon Custer's 1885 biography of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, was titled Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer.

References

  1. Gilman, Daniel Coit; Colby, Frank Moore; Peck, Harry Thurston (1905). The New International Encyclopedia. Dodd, Mead. p. 310.
  2. Byron Farwell, The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Land Warfare: An Illustrated World View (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), ISBN 978-0-393-04770-7, p. 118. Excerpt available at Google Books.
  3. Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1855). "On False Etymologies". Transactions of the Philological Society (6): 70.
  4. Nesbitt, Mark (2001). Saber & Scapegoat: J. E. B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811741361. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  5. ^ Tillman, Barrett (2012). Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II. Simon & Schuster. p. 36. ISBN 9781439190890. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  6. "What the Bugles Tell in the Army and Navy". San Francisco Chronicle. June 5, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  7. Catalogue of Victor Records. Victor Talking Machine Company. 1919. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. Twain, Mark (1907). A Horse's Tale. Harper and Brothers. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. Hutton, Paul Andrew (August 16, 2017). "Libbie Custer: 'A Wounded Thing Must Hide'". HistoryNet. Retrieved April 5, 2020.

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