infantryman|infantrymen in English

noun

['in·fan·try·man || ɪnfəntrɪmən]

foot soldier, member of the infantry (Military)

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1. Brigandines were worn by infantrymen.

2. An infantryman armed with an Arquebus is called an Arquebusier.

3. A Private infantryman was paid a wage of just 8d. per day, the same pay as for a New Model Army infantryman, 130 years earlier.

4. Hartmann entered the French army in October 1804 as an infantryman in the 15th Light Infantry Regiment.

5. The government brought in tanks, helicopters, and infantrymen to support the police.

6. Also patron of infantrymen, knife sharpeners, swordsmiths, and weavers; he is invoked against gout.

7. Some Abrams tanks were disabled by Iraqi infantrymen in ambushes during the invasion.

8. CSM Timothy D. L Awless CSM LAwless is a native of Widnes, England and enlisted in the Army in April 1997 as an Infantryman

9. Burgonet (plural Burgonets) A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor

10. 13 On the front lines, the infantrymen were not privy to the intelligence part of the missions that we went on.

11. Bayoneted Soviet infantrymen March Moscow's Red Square during a celebration of the the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia, November Aug

12. The succeeding waves of troops took the brunt of the hastily organized Japanese defense, and several landing craft and infantrymen became victims of landmines.

13. He commanded an infantry force of 5000 men and 500 cavalry, followed by Gen. Ne Myo Thura Minhla Nawrahta's 20,000 infantrymen and 2500 cavalry.

14. Deiotarus levied an army and trained it with Roman help; the army, in 48 BC, was composed of 12,000 infantrymen and 2,000 horsemen.

15. One unit was made up of butchers and bakers and about 90 infantrymen, the latter being reinforced by riflemen who had withdrawn from the airfield.

16. 19 The sword used by Roman infantrymen at the time Paul wrote his letter was about 20 inches (50 cm) long and was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

17. In the main attack on the right, the British infantrymen either flung themselves to the ground, huddled in the canal, or were mowed down by a combination of musket fire and grapeshot from the Americans.

18. The crew officially consisted of at least 17 soldiers and one officer: commander (officer, typically a lieutenant), driver, mechanic, mechanic/signaller, 12 infantrymen (six machine gunners, six loaders), and two artillerymen (main gunner and loader).

19. The Egyptian defenses blocked the central highway across the Sinai with a fortified box containing powerful artillery and more than a hundred tanks, fronted by three parallel trench-lines manned by thousands of infantrymen and anchored on sand dunes and high ground at each end.

20. ‘Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the Cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.’ ‘By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the Cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.’

21. In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes: “every war has its Afterwar, and so it was with the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, which have created some five hundred thousand mentally wounded American veterans.” To approach that number and reckon with its consequences, Finkel revisits many of the 2-16 infantrymen, now returned home and