rifle brigade
Light infantry formation
A rifle brigade is a military unit historically composed of soldiers armed with rifles rather than smoothbore muskets, typically organized for light infantry tactics emphasizing speed, marksmanship, and skirmishing.
The term now generally refers to any infantry brigade, the rifle distinction having become obsolete as rifles became standard: He served with the rifle brigade in Afghanistan.
- infantryGround combat troops
- regimentColonel-led military unit
- battalionMid-sized military unit
- musketMuzzle-loaded infantry firearm
- bayonetRifle-mounted stabbing blade
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Mounted military unit
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