common soldiery

Wives, sisters and daughters of hidalgos came to visit, and the common soldiery had their mates.

He used an unguarded word in his first speech, applying the word "ragamuffin" to the common soldiery.

Some of our common soldiery are, and I hope unjustly, suspected.

He had always, on the other hand, affected much familiarity with the common soldiery.

Then the fury of the common soldiery broke loose upon the country.