What is "carabineers"

Usage examples of "carabineers".

Dutch are broken, and in their flight disorder the ranks of the English Twenty-eighth, the Carabineers of the Ninety-fifth being also dislodged from the sand-pit they occupied.

SPIRIT OF RUMOUR Ney guides the fore-front of the carabineers Through charge and charge, with rapid recklessness.

FRASER We have just learnt from a deserting captain, One of the carabineers who charged of late, That an assault which dwarfs all instances-- The whole Imperial Guard in welded weight-- Is shortly to be made.

In the same moment a charge of carabineers swept off the people who were obstructing the middle of the street, the regiments of the line opened floodgates for the overflowing crowd, and soon nothing remained on the causeway but some scared dog, shouted at by the people, hunted off by the soldiers, and fleeing at full speed.