BRITAINS SOLDIERS 20215 - British 24th Foot Cheering, No.1 1879 Diecast Zulu War

Name: BRITAINS SOLDIERS 20215 - British 24th Foot Cheering, No.1 1879 Diecast Zulu War
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A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION!!!\n\nFOR COLLECTORS OF 14 YEARS +, THIS IS A DETAILED SCALE MODEL PRODUCED BY WILLIAM BRITAINS (FAMOUS FOR YEARS OF PRODUCING METAL \""TOY\"" SOLDIERS).20215 - British 24th Foot Cheering, No.1, 1879\n\nA cry of \u201CHuzzah for the company!\u201D rings loud after a desperate struggle against a determined foe vanquished. The origin of the exclamation \u201Chuzzah\u201D is not certain, but was probably influenced by war cries from various languages including Norse, Dutch, Russian, and Prussian. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was identified as a sailor\u2019s cheer or salute, possibly related to words like heeze and hissa, which are cognates of hoist. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, three huzzahs were given by British infantry before a bayonet charge, as a way of building morale. In Richard Holmes\u2019 book Redcoat: The British SoW