King's Lancer: was Re: Melees Report??

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 dentim at mail.myriad.net wrote:
> The King's Lancer is the winner of our first kingdom equestrian
> championship.

The word "lancer" (in the expected sense) has its first citation 1590,
so at least it's (barely) period.

Is it just me, or does anyone else have the reaction, upon seeing
"King's Lancer", of thinking of the King's Bengal Lancers, British
sahibs, Kipling, and all that sort of tommyrot?

-- 
Daniel de Lincoln
                             Tim McDaniel
                        Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com
      tmcd at mcdaniel.dallas.tx.us is wrong tool.  Never use this.