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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of light infantry1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
The result of this movement was that, as far as the cavalry and light infantry were concerned, their right became their left.
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D'Ell, with Gage's light infantry, behaved very gallantly, and the rangers finally put the enemy to flight.
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Sheridan was a grenadier company of life-guards, but Colman a whole regiment—of light infantry, to be sure, but still a regiment.
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On the British right the light infantry gain equal advance just as the left wing almost touched the redoubt.
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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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