Infantry

thumb|Common military rifles from the mid-to-late 20th century of various types and configurations, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in [[Virginia, United States. Top to bottom: FAMAS, vz. 52 rifle, CAR-15, M40, SVD rifle, RK 62, and Type 56.]]

thumb|upright=1.35|French Army and [[British Army infantry during a military exercise in 2020]]

A janissary ( , ; , , ) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops. They were one of the first modern standing armies, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped primarily with firearms, adopted during the reign of Murad II (r. 1421–1444, 1446–1451). The corps was established under either Orhan or Murad I, and dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826.

thumb|Nepali soldiers; drawing by Gustave Le Bon, 1885 thumb|Monument to the Gurkha Soldier in Horse Guards Avenue, outside the Ministry of Defence, [[City of Westminster, London]] thumb|A Kukri|khukuri, the signature weapon of the Gurkhas thumb|Kaji (Nepal)|Kaji (equivalent to [[Prime Minister of Gorkha Kingdom) Vamshidhar "Kalu" Pande and Chief of the Gorkhali Army; one of the most highly decorated Gorkhali commanders]]

thumb|Painting of two British light dragoons in 1809 during the [[Peninsular War]]

A musketeer ( ) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare from the mid 15th to mid 19th centuries, particularly in Europe, where they normally comprised the majority of their infantry after 1600. The musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman. Muskets were replaced by breech loading rifles as the almost universal firearm for modern armies during the period 1850 to 1870. The traditional designation of "musketeer" for an infantry private survived in the Imperial German Army until World War I.

A sepoy () was the designation given to an Indian infantryman armed with a musket in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the British East India Company.

thumb|upright|Grenadier of Old Guard (France)|Napoleon's Old Guard c.1812 by [[Édouard Detaille]]

thumb|Agrianes|Agrianian peltas. This peltast holds three javelins, one in his throwing hand and two in his pelte (shield) hand as additional ammunition. A peltast (, ) was a type of light infantry originating in Thrace and Paeonia and named after the kind of shield they carried. Thucydides mentions the Thracian peltasts, while Xenophon in the Anabasis distinguishes the Thracian and Greek peltast troops.

thumb|upright=1.2|Paratroopers of the armies of British Army|Britain, Italy, Turkey and the United States during an exercise in [[Pordenone, Italy, 2019.]]

military service branch which uses infantry with armored transport vehicles

thumb|upright|French zouave, thumb|A small detachment of France's 4th Regiment of Zouaves in M'Sila Province|the M'Sila region during the [[Algerian War, ]]

military service branch which operates infantry transported by trucks or unprotected motor vehicles

thumb|right|250px|Ashigaru wearing armor and jingasa firing tanegashima (Japanese matchlocks)

' (), abbreviated as PzG (WWII) or PzGren''' (modern), meaning "Armour"-ed fighting vehicle "Grenadier"'', is the German term for the military doctrine of mechanized infantry units in armoured forces who specialize in fighting from and in conjunction with infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) – that is, armoured troop carriers designed to carry a mechanized squad of six to eight soldiers into, during and out of combat while providing direct fire support for those troops.

military movement of ground forces by air into combat or unsecured areas

The '''''' () were the airborne forces branch of the Luftwaffe before and during World War II. They were the first paratroopers to be committed in large-scale airborne operations. They were commanded by Kurt Student, the Luftwaffe's second-in-command.

military personnel who use bicycles

thumb|367x367px|Napoleonic French Carabinier, 1810 thumb|300px|right|Spanish Carabiniers in the Pyrenees, 1892.

thumb|225px|A member of the French Army's , armed with a [[flintlock, ]] Fusilier is a name given to various kinds of soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. While fusilier is derived from the 17th-century French word – meaning a type of flintlock musket – the term has been used in contrasting ways in different countries and at different times, including soldiers guarding artillery, various elite units, ordinary line infantry and other uses.

combat formation of infantry

type of infantry for leading attacks

type of light infantry that were arrangeed into long thin lines of alternating rows and fired volleys of shot into enemy ranks

thumb|upright|Austrian pandur, , using a tree for cover while skirmishing thumb|upright=1.25|As with most other modern foot soldiers, the US 6th Marine Regiment, on patrol near [[Marjah, 2010, routinely uses skirmish formation.]]

concentrated rush of soldiers

class of Aztec infantry soldier

type of infantry that is heavily armed and armoured

soldier fulfilling the marksman role in an infantry squad

thumb|French voltigeurs crossing the Danube before the [[battle of Wagram]]

infantry that rides on horseback

right|thumb|300px|The impi was a military formation that transformed the face of southern Africa, on into east and central Africa. Its highest development took place under Shaka, initiator of several important organizational, weapon and tactical innovations.

military organisation

thumb|upright=1.3|Soldiers of the 1st Tirailleur Regiment of [[Épinal displaying late 19th- to early 20th-century uniforms for Bastille Day festivities.]]

military units raised in or for service in a country's colonial possessions

book by Erwin Rommel

thumb|Green jacketed British Army rifleman aiming a [[Baker rifle, c. 1803]]

thumb|right|"Over the top" – close-up of a doughboy in full combat dress "Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I. Though the origins of the term are not certain, the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by "G.I." as the following generation enlisted in World War II.

military combined arms tactic

19th-century German infantryman armed with a rifled musket and used in a skirmishing role

anti-cavalry defensive infantry formation for pikemen

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combination of military concepts and methods used by infantry to achieve tactical objectives during combat