French voltigeur company deploys into skirmish order in the light woods. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2009)
This is a nice picture of the voltigeur loading his musket in what I consider to be a realistic and dynamic pose. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2008)
This is one of my favorite figures in the range and looks great standing next to the firing voltigeur pictured below. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2008)
This breaks down into 7 line companies, 1 grenadier company, and 1 voltigeur company. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2007)
French battalion in line with voltigeur company in skirmish order. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2007)
That would have been a good morning's work for a voltigeur, Sharpe thought, and wondered why the hell his own bullet had missed. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
Sharpe reloaded the rifle, knelt by the back window and saw a voltigeur at the yard's end twitch back as he was struck by a bullet fired from the attic. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
The ball spun across the heads of number four company, missed Lieutenant Slingsby's left arm by an inch, struck a rock on the edge of the hillside and ricocheted up to hit a voltigeur beneath the chin. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
The man Harper had shot crawled away and Sharpe aimed his rifle at the gap between the buildings, expecting another voltigeur to appear at any moment. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
A voltigeur officer sent a company ahead to occupy the skyline as, behind them, the cumbersome mass edged its way towards the opening, leaving a right-angled line of bodies, the remnants of their left flank and front lines, thick on the rocky slope. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
He went first, jumping down the steps, sprinting towards the track, stopping at the dunghill, turning and dropping to one knee, and the red-jacketed Riflemen were spreading in the skirmish line either side of him as he aimed the rifle at the side of the house, looking for an officer, seeing none, but there was a voltigeur taking aim with his musket. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
There was a dead voltigeur at his feet and the corpse was wearing one of the old-fashioned short sabres that all French skirmishers used to carry, but had abandoned because the blades were useful for nothing except reaping crops. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
He had not made the men change their breeches because he reckoned that would take too much time, and a sharp-eyed voltigeur might wonder why the redcoats had dark-green trousers, but he would risk that. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
A Rifleman, shot in the lungs, was draped over one of the chestnut stakes holding the vines and a voltigeur drew his bayonet and stabbed the wounded man until he stopped twitching, then searched his pockets for coins or plunder. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
No one was watching him, they were all staring at the column which edged ever closer, or if some men were watching him then they must assume he was aiming at a voltigeur. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
A dead voltigeur just beneath the rocky knoll lay with his clenched hands jutting to the sky while a raven pecked at his lips and eyes. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
More canisters were fired, each taking its handful of casualties, and the voltigeur officers ordered their men back to the columns. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
A Sergeant pushed the voltigeur away from the corpse. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
