Armies
Voltigeurs
After 1804, every French infantry battalion was authorized to establish a voltigeur company. These companies included the smallest and most agile men in the battalion and were expected to form the unit’s skirmish screen. They were marked by the green and yellow plumes and cording on the shako and similarly coloured epaulettes. voltigeur: from the French for “vaulter,” a light…
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Uniforms of the 1848 Revolutions in Europe
In the early months of 1848 France was in a ferment over the country’s franchise. Louis-Philippe ‘ King of the French by the Grace of God and the Will of the People’, had attempted to establish a constitutional monarchy on the British pattern. But the solid basis of a…