skirmishers
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Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1, pg. 155. The army units were generally separated along ethnic lines, thus the Berbers were usually the light cavalry and foot skirmishers, while the Turks were the horse archers or heavy cavalry (known as Mamluks).
He launched a powerful assault at 6 a.m. that overran the Confederate skirmishers but mistakenly thought he had pierced the first line of earthworks and halted his corps to regroup before moving on, which he planned for that afternoon.
A very even fight between British and French infantry was about to occur.sfn The French advance drove in the British skirmishers and reached the sunken road.
French skirmishers appeared around the building and fired on the British command as it struggled to get away through the hedgerow along the road.
At the moment these skirmishers were rejoining their parent battalions, the brigade was ordered to its feet and started to return fire.
In addition, the Bijlandt brigade had been ordered to deploy its skirmishers in the hollow road and on the forward slope.