He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.

After the evolution of armoured warfare, mechanised infantry were mounted in armoured fighting vehicles and replaced light infantry in many situations.

In modern armoured warfare, armoured units equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles serve the historic role of both the battle cavalry, light cavalry and dragoons, and belong to the armoured branch.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

The army had three infantry battalions and an engineer battalion in 1979, as well as a light tank squadron, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery battery.

As of 2012, major equipment items reported by the IISS included ten T-55 tanks ( marked as potentially unserviceable ), 5 AMX-13 light tanks, 34 reconnaissance vehicles, 10 BMP-1 / 2 armoured infantry fighting vehicles, 41 wheeled APCs, and 36 + artillery pieces.

In addition to these heavy cavalry, the Macedonian army also employed lighter horsemen called prodromoi for scouting and screening, as well as the Macedonian pike phalanx and various kinds of light infantry.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

Dragoon regiments were converted to motorised infantry ( trucks and motor cycles ), and cuirassiers to armoured units ; while light cavalry ( Chasseurs a ' Cheval, Hussars and Spahis ) remained as mounted sabre squadrons.

Early light cavalry ( like the auxiliaries of the Roman army ) were typically used to scout and skirmish, to cut down retreating infantry, and for defeating enemy missile troops.

The British defence of Ruweisat Ridge relied on an improvised formation called " Robcol ", comprising a regiment each of field artillery and light anti-aircraft artillery and a company of infantry.

In this last role, they often compete with the carbine, a short, light rifle, which is also usually issued to airborne infantry because of its small size.

The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle was the first U. S. infantry weapon of this type, and was generally used for suppressive or support fire in the role now usually filled by the light machine gun.

* American M1919 Browning machine gun: originally chambered for. 30-06 Springfield but has since been converted to a variety of calibers ; it was used as an infantry weapon ( light and support roles ) and also mounted on a variety of vehicles, aircraft and naval platforms.

By contrast with hoplites, other contemporary infantry ( e. g. Persian ) tended to wear relatively light armour, use wicker shields, and were armed with shorter spears, javelins, and bows.

During the Ancient and Middle Ages Infantry were categorized by the types of weapons and armor they used, such as heavy, medium, and light infantry.

In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.

The experienced survivors of the 1st Battalion were drafted into the flank ( grenadier and light ) companies.

The redan had very few troops guarding it, the light company of the 49th having been ordered from the heights into the town by Brock to join the fighting in the village in support of the grenadier company.

It consisted of the flank ( i. e. light and grenadier ) companies of the 49th Regiment and a detachment of the Canadian Fencibles ( perhaps 150 men in total ) with a 6-pounder gun of the Canadian Provincial Artillery.

Each fireteam consists of a team leader ( corporal / lance-corporal ), a scout with enhanced optics, a grenadier with a M203 and a LSW operator with F89 Minimi light support weapon.

On the night of 18 December, a force consisting of the 100th Foot, the grenadier company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots, and the grenadier and light companies of the 41st Foot, with some small detachments of militia, crossed the river above Fort Niagara.

The center, under the command of Hessian Colonel Carl von Donop, consisted of the Hessian grenadier battalions von Linsing and Minnigerode, and the left, commanded by Cornwallis, consisted of two battalions of British light infantry, the 1st battalion of grenadiers, and another detachment of light dragoons.

For if I knew the secret of letting this power in my body change directly into electricity, I could rent myself out to the electric companies and with just the power in my body I could light all the lights and run all the factories in the entire United States for some days.

The piece has also become a popular choice for amateur musical theatre and light opera companies.

However, the area has aroused considerable interest from oil companies in the light of the discovery of rich reserves of high grade crude oil elsewhere in Nigeria.

U. S. firms, mostly manufacturers of apparel, footwear, and light electronics, as well as U. S. energy companies, account for much of the foreign private investment in the Dominican Republic.

Located in Lund ( a college town in Sweden ), it will invest in 8 – 10 companies in the coming five years with focus on solar panels, alternative light sources, product materials, energy efficiency and water saving and purification.

The mixing of rifle troops and muskets proved so effective that eventually the line battalion light companies were replaced with rifle companies.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

Many other companies wintered on the West Coast, escaping the weak light and short days that hampered winter shooting in the East.

With the help of some companies such as Philips and Osram Sylvania, halogen bulbs have been made for standard household fittings, and can replace banned incandescent light bulbs of low luminous efficacy.

The plaintiffs ' lawyers were confident that they would be able to win this suit due to the success of the Schwab case wherein tobacco companies were found guilty of fraud-like charges because they were selling the idea that light cigarettes were safer than regular cigarettes.

There are also a limited number of light industrial companies in this area.

* Vazrazhdane is an economically active district where many trade centres and banks, along with some light industry manufacturing companies, are located.

The presidential guard company is probably a large platoon of about 50 and the infantry companies almost certainly number less than 100 personnel each armed with light weapons.

In July 1779 Washington named Wayne to command the Corps of Light Infantry, a temporary unit of four regiments of light infantry companies from all the regiments in the Main Army.

The circular is a re-examination of the existing internal control requirements for federal agencies and was initiated in light of the new internal control requirements for publicly-traded companies contained in the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

This owes its origins to the World War II refugees from Poland finding both cheap accommodation and work in the Acton area, which back then had a lot a light engineering companies busy with government war contracts.

Apparatus include 1 battalion chief, 2 engine companies, 2 ladder companies, 1 truck company, 1 rescue unit, 3 brush trucks, 1 water tanker and 1 air and light unit.

Pulaski's Legion, along with three companies of light infantry, three troops of light horse, and one artillery detachment, came too late to be of great use against Ferguson's operations.