French Voltigeurs
Vendor code: 8042
Scale 1:72
Parts х 40
Size, cm 2,4
Voltigeurs were introduced as the companies meant for skirmishing in battle. It is
companies that became the "light infantry", which had always been in the vanguard
and in the line of skirmishers. The introduction of voltigeurs can also be explained
by the fact that Napoleon wanted to encourage brave soldiers who couldn't be
enrolled in the grenadier or carabineer companies owing to their low stature. If the
notion "grenadier" had always been associated with a tall soldier, courageous in a
bayonet fighting, a "voltigeur" was a synonym for a small, but fearless soldier in the
front under fierce fire of the enemy.
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