chasseurs
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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
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
At Mesnil St. Georges one infantry battalion, with some groups of chasseurs, drove off five successive attacks by a whole German division.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
They even were so facile as to leave a post close to the prefecture in the hands of chasseurs forgotten by Espivent.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The chasseurs are a separate unit from the French infantry and have their own particular customs.
From Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt
