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light infantry
noun
- foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
- infantry units with a minimal number of crew-served weapons and other supporting equipment.
Word History and Origins
Origin of light infantry1
Example Sentences
Seeing action as a member of the elite light infantry, she was only discovered after being wounded in battle.
The British officers detected the cockeyed American defensive positioning and decided to press ahead with light infantry even before their stragglers, who had been marching for seven hours in brutal heat, had caught up.
The result of this movement was that, as far as the cavalry and light infantry were concerned, their right became their left.
D'Ell, with Gage's light infantry, behaved very gallantly, and the rangers finally put the enemy to flight.
Sheridan was a grenadier company of life-guards, but Colman a whole regiment—of light infantry, to be sure, but still a regiment.
On the British right the light infantry gain equal advance just as the left wing almost touched the redoubt.
The British left the town as they had come in, with the grenadiers on the highway, the light infantry flanking them on the ridge.
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