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infantry

[in-fuhn-tree] / ˈɪn fən tri /
NOUN
foot soldiers
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He served in the military’s Golani infantry brigade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

On Wednesday, the military said it deployed an additional infantry battalion, which typically has hundreds of troops, to the area to patrol and protect it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Ellie says she had been desperate to be an infantry soldier.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

You could think of it as the drone warfare of diplomacy, which is, instead of sending infantry in the normal way to do it and shooting up howitzers, you’re trying different approaches.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Sweeping down from the high ground, General Meade’s infantry pounces on the terrified Confederates, who abandon their wagons and race into the woods on foot.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Industrial culture hardly represented the subcontinent, where infantries of workmen, captured in archival film footage, lugged baskets of construction material for a building designed to look machined.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

The two infantries were contending; gray Russian lines in the bottom land and already advancing up the slopes.

From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort

The Romans," says Napoleon in his Memoirs, "had two infantries; the first, lightly armed, was provided with a missile weapon; the second, heavily armed, bore a short sword.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

All other things being equal, both infantries suffer the same losses in the artillery duel.

From Battle Studies by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq

The soldiers, who deserve no little credit for their work, are members of the Twenty-eighth and the Tenth infantries.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert


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