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