'The Light Infantry (1846)', c1846 (1909). Artists: Unknown, William Walker.

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'The Light Infantry (1846)', c1846 (1909). Light infantry (or skirmishers) are soldiers whose job was to provide a skirmishing screen ahead of the main body of infantry, harassing and delaying the enemy advance. After Michael Angelo Hayes R. H. A. (1820-1877). From British Military Prints, by Ralph Nevill. [The Connoisseur, London, 1909]

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