Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "foot-soldier".
Gojo Bridge and through the main avenues of the capital, excited crowds jostled one another and goggled at the splendid sight of colorful horsemen in full battle dress, company after company of bowmen, foot-soldiers all in armor, and troops of children in their holiday best, who brought up the rear.
I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier.
The foot-soldiers were mostly conscripted peons from the central provinces, several cuts below the average cavalry recruit socially.
For all his grousing about foot-soldiering, the man had instantly slid from his horse and kept fighting afoot.
Under the tremendous penalties of perjury, excommunication, and death, the Latins were bound to deliver their plunder into the common stock: three churches were selected for the deposit and distribution of the spoil: a single share was allotted to a foot-soldier.