carabinier
Sign in to saveAlso known as Carabineer, Carbineer
thumb|367x367px|Napoleonic French Carabinier, 1810 thumb|300px|right|Spanish Carabiniers in the Pyrenees, 1892.
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Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Background
- Infantry Carabiniers
- Mounted Carabiniers
- Royal Spanish carabineros
- French Carabiniers-à-Cheval
- British Carabiniers
- Saxon Carabiniers
- Prussian carabiniers
- Netherlands karabiniers
- Russian Karabinery
- Swedish Carabiniers
- Westphalian Carabiniers
- Piedmont-Savoy Carabinieri
- Naples Carabiniers
- South African Carabiniers
- Australian Carbineers
- Law enforcement carabiniers
- Italian Carabinieri
- Spanish Carabineros under the Monarchy and Republic
- Chilean carabineros
- Colombian carabineros
- Bolivian Carabineros
- Moldovan Carabinieri
- References and notes
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|367x367px|Napoleonic French Carabinier, 1810 thumb|300px|right|Spanish Carabiniers in the Pyrenees, 1892.
A carabinier (also sometimes spelled carabineer or carbineer) is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine, musket, or rifle, which became commonplace by the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. The word is derived from the identical French word carabinier.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “carabinier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.