Uniforms of a skirmisher and rifleman, French light infantry, on a march with regimental dog, 1809. Skirmisher in shako, blue coat and trousers, armed with musket. Carbineer in bearskin, blue coat with red epaulettes, gaiters, armed with carbine. Voltigeur, Caribinier, Infanterie legere, 1809. Handcoloured woodcut by Andrew Best Leloir after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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