"skirmishers in Crimean War" Topic
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laptot | 24 Sep 2017 4:35 p.m. PST |
Did British Highlander and Guards units ever deploy skirmishers or was this left to the regular line and rifle regiments? The same question regarding the French. |
Artilleryman | 25 Sep 2017 1:24 a.m. PST |
I have read accounts of highland skirmishers at the Alma and the Guards were trained as per the line with light companies so I would assume they could, even if they did not. The French definitely deployed skirmishers, not just from the light infantry units (zouaves, chasseurs a pied) but also companies from the line units. |
laretenue | 25 Sep 2017 10:40 a.m. PST |
Highland regiments *were* Line Infantry, in that they were not Lights, Rifles or Guards. The same can be said of the Fusilier regiments. Note that all excepting the Guards were part of the same numbering system. All (including Guards and – I believe – Lights and Rifles) still had the same 10-Company organisation they had used in the Napoleonic Wars. Indeed drill and doctrine remained fundamentally unchanged, despite the introduction of rifled muskets with increased range. The Battalion's Grenadier and Light Companies were abolished in the 1860s, leaving eight identical Companies supposedly equally able to form a firing or skirmish line. In 1914 were these doubled up into a four-Company organisation. |
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