fantassin

As I said "fantassin", I am recalling this guys words after nearly 50 years!

Army Rumour Service 2010

In the french regiments the Chaplain was a Catholic priest and it was required that the fantassin the common infantryman was Catholic. the foreign regiments were authorized to have a Chaplain of the common faith of the soldiers, usually Lutheran for the German and some Swiss regiments, the Irish, Scot and Italian Regiments had Catholic Chaplains.

French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008

In the french regiments the Chaplain was a Catholic priest and it was required that the fantassin the common infantryman was Catholic. the foreign regiments were authorized to have a Chaplain of the common faith of the soldiers, usually Lutheran for the German and some Swiss regiments, the Irish, Scot and Italian Regiments had Catholic Chaplains.

Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008

La paie est de cinq aspers pour un fantassin, de huit pour un cavalier.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

An inexperienced recruit might easily double-load after an unnoticed misfire, or forget to withdraw his ramrod before pulling the trigger; similarly, a clumsy or malingering fantassin could easily contrive to spill most of the powder charge onto the ground and thus avoid the shoulder-dislocating kick of the weapon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The line infantryman or fantassin;* continued to form the backbone of the Imperial Army, as he had previously served its revolutionary predecessors.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

An inexperienced recruit might easily double-load after an unnoticed misfire, or forget to withdraw his ramrod before pulling the trigger; similarly, a clumsy or malingering fantassin could easily contrive to spill most of the powder charge onto the ground and thus avoid the shoulder-dislocating kick of the weapon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The line infantryman or fantassin;* continued to form the backbone of the Imperial Army, as he had previously served its revolutionary predecessors.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Up and up we went through the grounds, a few unburned old bodies in rags of uniform still discernible here and there as the lantern swung past them, a musician in sky-blue, a fantassin and officer-of-the-guard in scarlet, forming a cross, with domestics of the palace in red-and-orange.

The Purple Cloud 1906

While cavalier and fantassin dash in upon their track.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829