The whole day, until it was too late to see, the enemy's light troops endeavoured to drive our guards from the bridge, but they suffered dearly for their perseverance.
During the evening and night of the 22d, the enemy had thrown a body of light troops on the mountain side, with the purpose of outflanking our left; and it was here that the action of the 23d commenced at an early hour.
To return to the development of light troops in the British army.
In 1770, however, some one remembered the value of light troops, and the light companies were established afresh.
Washington now felt the want of Morgan and his riflemen, whom he had sent to assist the Northern army; to supply their place, he formed a corps of light troops, by drafting a hundred men from each brigade.
Our battalion soon cleared the hill in question of the enemy's light troops; but we were pulled up on the opposite side of it by one of their lines, which occupied a wall at the entrance of a village immediately under us.
The important thing is to have the course of the river watched by bodies of light troops, without attempting to make a defense at every point.
I shall not speak here of surprises of small detachments,--the chief features in the wars of partisan or light troops, for which the light Russian and Turkish cavalry are so well adapted.
They filled the wooded slope with numbers of Light troops.
Then the resident aliens who joined in the incursion were at least three thousand strong; besides which there was a multitude of light troops.
The piquets extending right and left immediately fell back, under a shower of bullets, from the enemy's light troops, who continued forcing on in spite of all opposition.
From thence were perceived large bodies, covered by a host of light troops, rapidly driving in our outposts.
These Chasseurs were applied in the Austrian service as light troops, and so great was their efficiency against the Prussians that Frederick the Great was compelled, in his turn, to organize a battalion of Chasseur sharp-shooters.
The Emperor's wish was to have the armament and training of all his infantry uniform, so that all the regiments should be equally adapted to the service of troops of the line or light troops.
Each of the six days was a day of hard fighting and annoyance from an indefatigable crowd of light troops, with little, and at last seemingly nothing, to eat.
While the two armies lay encamped in the neighbourhood of each other, nothing passed but skirmishes among the light troops, and little excursive expeditions.
By this success he opened to himself a way into Bohemia, by which he poured in detachments of light troops, to raise contributions and harass the out-posts of the enemy.
During the night a portion of La Marmora's advanced guard had arrived, and a battalion of light troops as well as one of infantry had got over the wall.
If attacked from a distance by light troops, they were also at a disadvantage, as unable to reach men who retired before them.
Occasionally they were employed as light troops, to open the battle by their ineffective demonstrations.
Imperial guards, light troops, lancers, foederati and infantry of the line were wedged together in a press that grew closer every moment.
The enemy sent a pretty strong corps of light troops across, which got engaged with our people; but we soon drove down through the wood again towards the bridge.
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