Neither division was rated as being highly efficient, with Allied intelligence rating them at a forty per-cent efficiency compared to a first-class line infantry division in a static role, and fifteen percent in a counter-attack role.
My neighbourhood pal, "Aaron", was not so lucky to be sent to front line infantry.
During World War II, he fought with the front line infantry at the Ardennes and the Battle of the Bulge.
Jordy led the 3rd and 38th Line Infantry Demi Brigades.
Tharreau directed the 3rd Light and the 56th, 74th, 79th and 89th Line Infantry Demi Brigades.
The Brunswick Infanterie-Regiment Nr.92 however adopted the dark blue tunic of the Prussian line infantry.
The equipment of the Libyan line infantry has been much debated.
The 1st Division included the Grenadiers Piedmontais, the 30th Legne (light infantry), and portions of the 2nd, 3rd, and 78th Regiments Ligne (line infantry), totaling approximately 4,500 men.
Sir John Moore, a proponent of the light infantry model, suggested that his own regiment of line infantry, the 52nd, be first to undergo this training, at Shorncliffe Camp.
In 1801, the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" was raised (later designated the 95th Rifles), and a decision was made to train some line regiments in light infantry techniques, so they might operate as both light and line infantry.
The American rifle units complemented the predominant, musket-equipped, line infantry forces of the war with their long-range marksmanship capability and were typically deployed with the line infantry as forward skirmishers and flanking elements.
