fantassins

Updated: June 22, 2025

Apropos I have seen your Scotchmen fight, and very stout fantassins they make, but I thought from them, that the folk over here all wore how do you say it? petticoats." "Those are the kilts, and they wear them only in the Highlands." "Ah! on the mountains. But there is a man out yonder. Maybe he is the one who your father said would carry my letters to the post."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

But their number is not sufficient!" Next came two hundred fantassins, or foot-soldiers, of Tuscany, with the corselets and arms of the heavy-armed soldiery a gallant company, and whose cheerful looks and familiar bearing appeared to sympathise with the crowd. And in truth they did so, for they were Tuscans, and therefore lovers of freedom.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes