Yes, I was talking about the cuirassiers, who wore that sort of 'cut-down' armor and yet still couldn't be sure that it was completely 'bulletproof', because it was difficult to manufacture armor to that quality. A lot of 'cuirassier' regiments never even received their armor, and many of them tossed it away as being too heavy for the level of protection they received.

Nowadays of course, the return to citizen armies (at least in part) demands effective armor protection for the rank-and-file as well, or so some military historians have concluded. People are going nuts over kevlar and liquid armor and powered armor and so on.