Military toppers

Usage examples of shakos.

They sing, shout, fling their shakos in the air and repeat words from the proclamation, their steel and brass flashing in the sun.

There is a far-extended clapping of hands, like the babble of waves, and companies of foot run in disorder towards high ground to behold the spectacle, waving their shakos on their bayonets.

Those who cannot get near him wave their shakos and acclaim him passionately.

The men wore dark blue uniform coats and had black shakos with silver rims.

The French Dragoons had taken up positions in the southern houses, while the Prussian infantry in their dark blue coats and black shakos lined the barricade.