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 Broun, Heywood
Fourteen regiments of cavalry, principally cuirassiers and chasseurs, are assembling at Brumath.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Chatrian, Alexandre
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
