foot soldier in English

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1
a soldier who fights on foot; an infantryman.
From a common foot soldier he rose to become one of the most honored military men of his time, the only seventeenth-century commander to receive the coveted title of marechal-general.
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1. What is your name, foot soldier?

2. 24 Hers was the record of, at best, a foot soldier in the feminist and abolitionist struggles of her day.

3. Brigand m (oblique plural briganz or brigantz, nominative singular briganz or brigantz, nominative plural Brigand) foot soldier; Descendants → English: Brigand; References

4. 1400, also brigaunt, "lightly armed irregular foot-soldier," from Old French Brigand (14c.), from Italian brigante "trooper, skirmisher, foot soldier," from brigare "to brawl, fight" (see brigade).Sense of "robber, freebooter, one who lives by pillaging" is earlier in English (late 14c.), reflecting the lack of distinction between professional mercenary armies and armed

5. A member who is appointed to a position or office is called an Appointee; in law, such a term is applied to one who is granted power of appointment of property Appointee (French: appointé), a foot soldier in the French army, who, for long service and bravery, received more pay than other privates