The French leader sent Hussars, famed French cavalrymen, to go see if they could intimidate the Dutch into surrendering, but at this point the Dutch weren’t intending to do much else.

Comte de Lassale, the famous “Hussar General” of the French army said, “Any hussar who is not dead by the age of 30 is a blackguard,” and this description was spot on for Russian hussars.