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Brogan (shoes)
A brogan is a heavy, ankle-high shoe or boot.
==History==
Brogan-like shoes, called "brogues" (from Old Irish "bróc" meaning "shoe"), were made and worn in Scotland and Ireland as early as the 16th century, and the shoe-type probably originated there.〔http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brogue〕〔http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brogan〕 They were used by the Scots and the Irish as work boots for wear in the wet, boggy Scottish and Irish countryside.〔http://www.gentlemansgazette.com/brogues-shoe-guide-men/〕 The word "brogue" is still used in Britain for a style of dress shoe, which may or may not have an ankle high top.
Brogans and brogan-like shoes and boots were adopted over time by various countries for wear by their military forces. English armies issued ankle high boots at least as early as the English Civil War, and brogans may have been worn by some soldiers among both American and British forces during the American Revolutionary War.〔''Paul Revere's Ride'' by David Hackett Fischer, p. 122〕 Both sides in the American Civil War issued them to their soldiers, and the U.S. Army issued hob-nailed brogans known as "trench boots" to U.S. soldiers during the First World War. These replaced the 1904 Russet Service Shoe, a brogan of a construction unsuitable to trench warfare or field duty in general.〔http://www.aef-doughboys.com/footwear.html〕 An improved version of the trench boot, the 1918 trench boot, was nicknamed the "little tanks" because of their strong construction, and "Pershing boots" after American general John J. Pershing.〔http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/l_tanks.htm〕〔https://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/sams-references-explained/the-doughboys-uniform-and-equipment/〕 The U.S. Army continued to issue brogans during WWII, and the U.S. Air Force issued them through the 1960s.〔http://www.usww2uniforms.com/〕 Other armies, such as the German Army of the 1930s and World War II, and the British Army, have also issued brogan-type shoes, nicknamed "Ammunition Shoes".〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11011316/Military-kit-through-the-ages-from-the-Battle-of-Hastings-to-Helmand.html〕
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