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

I believe their mounted Cossacks alone exceeded 60,000 men; and there was, probably, 40,000 line cavalry in Poland—cuirassiers, dragoons, lancers, hussars, chasseurs, etc.—to oppose which the Germans had certainly no more than 20,000 inferior horsemen.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John

Taking refuge with a company of chasseurs, he saw a disguised Austrian spy enter the French camp.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

It was by the south-western ridge, it will be remembered, that not only I, but Mr. Hawkins, Professor Tyndall, and the chasseurs of Val Tournanche, essayed to climb the mountain.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward