Infantry Carabiniers
The use of carabinier to refer to infantry troops comes from the French light infantry battalions of 1794 where it denoted troops of the elite company known as grenadiers in line infantry.
Other infantry units with the title of carabiniers included:
- The Monegasque Military includes an infantry unit called the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince, which has been active since at least 1817.
- In the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic wars, the sections on the right flank of Yeger battalions deployed in line were called carabiniers.
- Quite apart from the elite Yeger platoons, there also existed foot Carabinier regiments for a brief time after 12 February 1816 when the six Grenadier-Yeger Regiments were renamed as Carabiniers. These included the oldest regular infantry regiment in the Russian Army, the Yerivan Leib-Grenadier regiment as the former 7th Carabinier Regiment. Foot Carabinier regiments were renamed rifles (Russian: стрелки) in 1857 following the Crimean War.
- Bavarian Volunteer Jäger Corps in 1813
- The Belgian Army Chasseurs included an infantry Regiment des Carabiniers, which saw service against the German Army in August 1914 still dressed in its green 19th century uniform complete with a form of top hat. Following a merger in 1992 the unit became the Regiment Carabiniers Prince Baudouin - Grenadiers.
- Waldeck, Lippe-Detmold, Shaumburg-Lippe contingents in the 2nd battalion, 6th Rheinbund Regiment of the Confederation of the Rhine.
- Nassau 2nd Light Infantry Regiment
- Legion Irlandaise (Irish Legion) in French service
- Westphalian voltigeur-carabiniers created by Jérôme Bonaparte, and after 1811 renamed Jäger Carabinier d'Elite
- Papal States Carabinieri indigeni formed from Italian recruits, and Carabinieri esteri formed from foreign recruits
- Kingdom of Italy under Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais (1805–1814) had Velites Carabiniers of the Guard.
- One of the three light infantry battalions of the reorganised Royal Spanish Army in 1812 was called Carabiniers.
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