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Used during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the Charleville musket was a .69 calibre, (sometimes .70 or .71) 5-foot-long (1.5 m), muzzle-loading, smoothbore musket. Properly trained French infantry were expected to be able to fire three volleys a minute.
Purchased as a replacement of the AR90 Land Rover Defender 90 for light reconnaissance in 2020 (delivery 2021-22). To be used by the special forces. [130] 200 light (in light grey livery) + 10 standard (military livery) purchased. At a longer term 2,400 are expected in total, the variants being: [131] Light: a civilian variant; Standard:
Legio XII Fulminata ("Thunderbolt Twelfth Legion"), also known as Paterna, Victrix, Antiqua, Certa Constans, and Galliena, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. It was originally levied by Julius Caesar in 58 BC, and the legion accompanied him during the Gallic Wars until 49 BC.
The grenadier units had, by the time of the Napoleonic Wars, ceased using the hand-thrown grenades, and were largely known for being composed of physically big men, sometimes veterans of previous military campaigns, frequently relied upon for shock actions. They otherwise used the same arms and tactics as the line infantry.
This category includes sub-categories and articles about military units and formations which participated in the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), both those of France and its allies, and those of the Coalitions which opposed it.
Horse carabinier's uniform before 1809 Horse carabinier as of 1809. The corps of Carabiniers was a group of heavy cavalry originally created by Louis XIV.From 1791 to 1809, their uniforms consisted of a blue coat with a blue piped red collar, red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks with white grenades, red epaulettes with edged white straps, red cuff flaps for the 1st Regiment, blue piped red for the ...
Legio XIV Gemina ("The Twinned Fourteenth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army, levied by Julius Caesar in 57 BC. [1] The cognomen Gemina (Twinned) was added when the legion was combined with another understrengthed legion after the Battle of Actium.
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