chasseurs
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Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything they could think of to show their gratitude, including a dash up among snow-crested crags to shoot chamois for her lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was the visit of George VI, when the King held his salute for a battalion of chasseurs a pied until the last little proud-eyed rear guard quick-stepped by.
From Time Magazine Archive
This might not seem like the pleasantest of all possible vacations for men from the line, but the chasseurs seemed to take to it readily enough.
From Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun
On the evening of the 18th, after the order of evacuation, it had to defend it only twenty muskets and some chasseurs of Vincennes, interned there for mutiny.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Flourens, all the same, pressing forward, arrived at the Malmaison, put Gallifet's chasseurs to flight, and the Parisian vanguard pushed as far as Bougival.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
