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CARABINIERS , originally mounted troops of the See also:French See also:army, armed with the carabine (See also:carbine). In 1690 one See also:company of carabiniers was maintained in each See also:regiment of See also:cavalry. Their duties were analogous to those of grenadiers in See also:infantry regiments—scouting, detached See also:work, and, in See also:general, all duties requiring See also:special activity and address. They fought mounted and dismounted alike, and even took See also:part in See also:siege warfare in the trenches. At the See also:battle of See also:Neerwinden in 1693 all the carabinier companies See also:present were See also:united in one See also:body, and after the See also:action See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. consolidated them into a permanent regiment with the name Royal Carabiniers. This was one of the old regiments which survived the French Revolution, atwhich See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:title was changed to " See also:horse grenadiers "; it is represented in the French army of to-See also:day by the iith See also:Cuirassiers. The carabiniers (6th See also:Dragoon See also:Guards) of the See also:British army date from 1685, and received the title from being armed with the carabine in 1692. Regimentally therefore they were one See also:year See also:senior to the French regiment of Royal Carabiniers, and as a See also:matter of fact they took part as a regiment in the battle of Neerwinden. Up to 1745 their title was " The See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Carabiniers "; from 1745 to 1788 they were called the 3rd Irish Horse, and from 1788 they have See also:borne their present title. In the See also:German army, one carabinier regiment alone (2nd Saxon Reiter regiment) remains of the cavalry See also:corps which formerly in various states See also:bore the title. In See also:Italy the See also:gendarmerie are called carabinieri.
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