Gotta drop the discreetly placed marshal’s baton angle for now since i cant even find a half decent example pair lol
renaissance: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-201... (I want to show you the baton here, but if you find other views of this statue you'll find Gattamelata agreed with Crazy Horse on ponytails)
napoleonic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréc...
in our time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ch...
and of course the riding crop is very reminiscent of a baton: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
EDIT: https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/... (here Charles can also channel his inner Hector, via his pseudo-greaves)
other examples:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1....
https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/... (you can tell it's a popular rag because they really could've chosen a more flattering moment, ie a few seconds before or after, to publish)
EDIT: can't resist adding this pair; mirrored at birth?
https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ds...
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-un...
i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on
Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?
(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks
Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).
Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.
Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm
> And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
[0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950.
[1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...
[0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice?
> > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak
[1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s
EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.