Voltigeur

French voltigeurs crossing the Danube before the battle of Wagram

The voltigeurs were French military skirmish units created in 1804 by Emperor Napoleon I.[1] They replaced the second company of fusiliers in each existing infantry battalion.[2]

  1. ^ "French Infantry : Uniforms : Organization : Weapons : Infanterie française".
  2. ^ Crowdy, Terry (2015). Napoleon's Infantry Handbook. South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword. p. 166. ISBN 9781783462957.