A light-armed brigade.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : light-armed troops.    From Dictionary.com. 

Then, with almost incredible swiftness, the light-armed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

Zouaves destined to fight in the light-armed troops the costume of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

But the rest, who form the light-armed troops, carry a metal cudgel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The City of the Sun] Reference

This bas-relief is terminated by the combat between a light-armed gladiator and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Rhodes, and a hundred and twenty exiles from Megara, equipped as light-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

English had the advantage over enemies chiefly by their archers and light-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827] Reference

A couple of light-armed vehicles returned fire, and the night sky just lit up, Anderson.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003] Reference

Such questions might have been put to you by a light-armed mercenary, who argued for pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theaetetus] Reference

Megara, and set out with a few light-armed attendants for Patrae, where she was now staying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

On every side the Athenians were hard beset; the light-armed troops posted on the decks of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

No regular light-armed troops accompanied them, for Athens had no organised force of this kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

So he formed his hoplites into a compact square, and placed his light-armed troops in the centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Athenians maintained their ground, for the Aetolians, being light-armed, were driven back by the arrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The legions there are all devoted to us, the light-armed troops are ours, the cavalry is ours, and, above all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Instantly the light-armed troops of the Athenians pressed upon them with fresh confidence, redoubling their cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Athenians instead of going to meet them remained in position, while the light-armed again and again ran up and attacked the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Secutoriani (a word coined by C.), the Sececutores, light-armed gladiators, who were pitted against others with net and trident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Suavi fighting on foot, the Huns with bows, the Alani drawing up a battle-line of heavy-armed and the Heruli of light-armed warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference

The Samnites have sent a legion of light-armed infantry, and the Marsi have sent a wonderful legion of standard Roman-style infantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

A force of metic hoplites amounting to at least three thousand took part in the invasion, and also a large number of light-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

These embryonic atoms are much the braver warriors, and, when summoned to do battle, spring, lithe and light-armed, against the elemental foe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

In the park, we found the groves full of men running about, light-armed Cretans going like beaters through the coverts, calling to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

Wayne took a small body of light-armed, fearless men, marched through the mountains and at midnight on July 16, stormed the fort and captured it.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington] Reference

In light-armed troops, it must be admitted, the numbers told heavily in favour of Agesilaus, but the cavalry283 on both sides were fairly balanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

When he came thither, he found the gate opened for him, and entered with his thirty men, and about twenty more light-armed men, who were come up to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

A remedy for this state of things may be found in the practice of generals who combine a proper contingent of light-armed troops with cavalry and heavy-armed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

After some preliminary skirmishing between the light-armed troops, the heavy masses of the hoplites came to close quarters, and a fierce hand to hand struggle ensued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Thus they were presently able to take the field, with large detachments both of heavy infantry and light-armed troops, besides a division of cavalry, about seventy in number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

The royal army drawn up in its formations, the phalanx, the cavalry, the light-armed skirmishers, ceased to be an army, as a village struck by an earthquake ceases to be a street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

And there are subordinate officers called naval captains, and captains of light-armed troops and of horse; having others under them: all these are included in the department of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

The Chalcidian hoplites and with them certain auxiliaries were defeated and retreated into Spartolus, but their cavalry and light-armed troops had the advantage over those of the Athenians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Chalcidian horse and the newly-arrived troops, the light-armed again attacked the Athenians, who began to fall back upon the two companies which they had left with their baggage: as often as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

In the battle the Boeotians lost somewhat less than five hundred; the Athenians not quite a thousand, and Hippocrates their general; also a great number of light-armed troops and baggage-bearers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The Athenian cavalry as usual attacked them whenever an opportunity offered, and prevented the great body of the light-armed troops from going beyond their lines and injuring the lands near the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The Athenian hoplites were drawn up near Nisaea and the sea, and their light-armed troops were scattered over the plain, when the Boeotian cavalry came riding up, fell upon the light-armed, and drove them to the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference