What is "carbineers"

Usage examples of "carbineers".

They wore the mottled green uniform of the Carbineers, one of the horsed troops of paramilitary Cossacks who kept civil order and patrolled the streets of New Orleans.

It was possible that he would get a posse of his own Carbineers together, to better take the credit for his coup in capturing or killing one of Southern Command's "terrorists.

But he was unable to complete this oath, for two days afterwards, in an encounter with the Roman carbineers, Carlini was killed.

Instantly afterwards four carbineers, on horseback, appeared on the edge of the wood.

The three carbineers looked about carefully on every side, saw the young peasants, and galloping up, began to question them.

Through the crevices in the granite he had seen the two young peasants talking with the carbineers, and guessed the subject of their parley.

A double line of carbineers, placed on each side of the door of the church, reached to the scaffold, and formed a circle around it, leaving a path about ten feet wide, and around the guillotine a space of nearly a hundred feet.

And he passed the paper to the officer commanding the carbineers, who read and returned it to him.

A detachment of carbineers, fifteen abreast, galloped up the Corso in order to clear it for the barberi.

This column consisted of the Bushveld Carbineers, the 4th Imperial Bushmen's Corps, and the 6th New Zealand contingent.

In this region an irregular corps, named the Bushveld Carbineers, had been operating.

The number of the carbineers was quadrupled in the infested districts, soldiers penetrated the fastnesses of the hills, there were daily fights with the banditti.

To have myself pointed at, 'There goes the Deserter' He was a private in the Carbineers, and he deserted.