picketing-gear

Updated: August 24, 2026

We started at a trot, two or three patrols galloping out in front, towards the high ground, while the regiment followed in mass a great square block of ungainly brown figures and little horses, hung all over with water-bottles, saddle-bags, picketing-gear, tins of bully-beef, all jolting and jangling together; the polish of peace gone; soldiers without glitter; horsemen without grace; but still a regiment of light cavalry in active operation against the enemy.

Winston Churchill - The River War : An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan