Carabiniere, 1° Reggimento Fanteria Leggera
Carabinier, 1st Light Infantry Regiment
From the Otto Manuscript
Light infantry regiments had a company of Carabinieri (from the french carabiniers) instead of the grenadier company fielded by line regiments. This example is distingushed from his cacciatore counterparts by a fur busby and all-red plume, cords, epaulettes and sword knot. Even his gaiters are trimmed in red.
The Otto manuscript appears to have been painted in the summer of 1807, possibly by the German artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe but more probably by an unknown French artist. It contains over a hundred figures, mostly of French subjects but with a small contingent of Italians. The 1st Light is particularly well represented with each of these types represented:
- Cacciatore (Chasseur)
- Carabiniere (Carabinier)
- Volteggiatore (Voltigeur)
- >Zappatore (Sapper)
- Tamburo-Maggiore (Drum Major)
Source
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DEMPSEY, G. C. (1994), Napoleon's Soldiers - The Grande Armée of 1807 as Depicted in the Paintings of the Otto Manuscript, Arms & Armour Press, London
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