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 John Morse
The air was filled with smoke, and the chasseurs at last assembled, every one bearing his own proper booty.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
The chasseurs leaped out of their trench; threw down their tools, and began to sing at top voice a popular Parisian love ditty entitled "Il faut de l'amour."
From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Heywood Broun
