French battalion in line with voltigeur company in skirmish order. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
French voltigeur company deploys into skirmish order in the light woods. From Wordnik.com. [BAR Napoleon Playtest] Reference
This breaks down into 7 line companies, 1 grenadier company, and 1 voltigeur company. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
This is a nice picture of the voltigeur loading his musket in what I consider to be a realistic and dynamic pose. From Wordnik.com. [Early Elite Miniatures - I Want These Figures] Reference
This is one of my favorite figures in the range and looks great standing next to the firing voltigeur pictured below. From Wordnik.com. [Early Elite Miniatures - I Want These Figures] Reference
More canisters were fired, each taking its handful of casualties, and the voltigeur officers ordered their men back to the columns. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
A dead voltigeur just beneath the rocky knoll lay with his clenched hands jutting to the sky while a raven pecked at his lips and eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
The man Harper had shot crawled away and Sharpe aimed his rifle at the gap between the buildings, expecting another voltigeur to appear at any moment. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
No one was watching him, they were all staring at the column which edged ever closer, or if some men were watching him then they must assume he was aiming at a voltigeur. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
The blade caught the voltigeur just above the eyes and such was the anger and strength in the blow that the top of the man's skull came away like a decapitated boiled egg. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Runciman listened to the terrible noise of the cannonade pounding Fuentes de Onoro, a noise made worse by the splintering sound of voltigeur muskets firing over the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Runciman shuddered at the horrid sight, then stepped back two paces only to stumble on a dead voltigeur whose body marked the deepest point of penetration reached by the French. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Two hours after dawn a French voltigeur piquet on the stream's eastern bank called out a tentative greeting to the British sentry he knew was hidden behind a broken wall on the west bank. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
He had not made the men change their breeches because he reckoned that would take too much time, and a sharp-eyed voltigeur might wonder why the redcoats had dark-green trousers, but he would risk that. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
"Go, Pat, " Sharpe said, and just as the Irishman began to run a voltigeur came round the corner of the building, saw the big Rifle Sergeant running away and dropped to one knee as he levelled his musket. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
A Rifleman, shot in the lungs, was draped over one of the chestnut stakes holding the vines and a voltigeur drew his bayonet and stabbed the wounded man until he stopped twitching, then searched his pockets for coins or plunder. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
A voltigeur officer sent a company ahead to occupy the skyline as, behind them, the cumbersome mass edged its way towards the opening, leaving a right-angled line of bodies, the remnants of their left flank and front lines, thick on the rocky slope. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
He went first, jumping down the steps, sprinting towards the track, stopping at the dunghill, turning and dropping to one knee, and the red-jacketed Riflemen were spreading in the skirmish line either side of him as he aimed the rifle at the side of the house, looking for an officer, seeing none, but there was a voltigeur taking aim with his musket. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
The appearance of the ca-adores distracted the voltigeurs and gave Sharpe's Riflemen the chance to cross to the barracks without fighting through a whole voltigeur company, but it was a narrow chance, for even as Harper began shouting in Gaelic to order the Real Compan-a Irlandesa to open their door a huge cheer from the gatehouse on Sharpe's left announced the arrival of Loup's main force. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Fast from each volley grenadier and voltigeur retired. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
Philebus, this is a sharp practice; go on, X., and skirmish with him a little more in this voltigeur style. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
Four companies of the voltigeur regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph E. Johnston, were instructed, on the cessation of firing, to move rapidly under cover of the wall and enter the inclosure at its opening. From Wordnik.com. [General Scott]
June 16, 2007 8:04 PM , voltigeur said. From Wordnik.com. [The Side Effect of David Kelly's Overdose] Reference
He said to the voltigeur Antoine Gendre. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
14. voltigeur. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
"He's a good voltigeur, that one. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
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