This 215th anniversary of the Armistice of Cherasco was a fine event, bringing together many reenactors from Italy of course, but also from all over Europe: Hungarians, Austrians, Slovaks in Austrian infantry uniform, Swiss, Belgians… and many French, among them our friends from Carmagnole-Liberté, the Grenadiers d’Île-de-France and the Armée des Alpes.
The 5th Hussars were proud to wear their mirlitons, one more step in portraying the hussar's costume under the Revolution, and to have carried the liberty tree presented to the public, during a ceremony led by a superb “representative of the people” who brought a speech by Augustin Robespierre back to life for us.
The presence of many people in civilian costume was another pleasant surprise: it made the town's splendid setting look even more realistic, and showed clearly that there were not only soldiers in this period.
